Luke Writes

At the Changchun Foreign Language School my classroom was a listening lab. It was a difficult room to teach in since the kids were all locked away behind glass partitions and had computers to play.
Anyway, as I learned to use the (all-in-Chinese) computer software, I spent lots of time listening to conversations that I wasn’t interested in, such [...]

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If you like this game, check out my ESL games & teaching resources website.Materials Needed:

Deck of specially labeled playing cards
Blackboard (to keep score)

Instructions:(I play the game with cards because I’ve not been able to make a wheel durable enough to withstand my students; unfortunately, CARDS OF FORTUNE! is a stupid name for a game.)Teacher prepares [...]

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One of the activities I liked to do with my high school kids was having Q&A or Tell-Me-About-Yourself sessions. It took the kids most of the first semester to feel comfortable enough to talk in detail about their lives outside of school.
Once they opened up, quite a few of their responses have been pretty funny:
“My [...]

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The other day I happened to be in the office while a new student was being registered. The student, a boy who is probably seven years old, was there with his mother. The TA’s were telling the mother about the help available for students outside of class when the boy interrupted:
“Oh, I won’t need any [...]

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