Review activities

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Review activities

 

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#1: Odd One Out

This ESL warm-up activity is also one of my favourite ESL review activities. It’s fast, easy and great for making sure that students not only understand new vocabulary words, but the meaning behind them as well.

#2: Dictogloss

Dictogloss is another one of my favourite ESL review activities. It’s heavy on the listening and then students can either respond with writing or speaking, depending on your preference. You can use it to reinforce any grammar or vocabulary that you’ve taught the students in previous classes.

#3: Flip-Chart Vocabulary Review

This is another one of my favourite ESL review games that works best for smaller classes of 12 or fewer students. In bigger classes, it’ll get too chaotic. Basically, the students have to describe a word to a captain, who has to say it.

#4: Concentration

This is a fun ESL game that kids love, although you can use it for beginner teenagers or adults too. It’s perfect for reviewing new vocabulary words and definitions.

#5: Disappearing Text

Try out this ESL review activity at the end of class to review grammar concepts or vocabulary. It helps these things become a bit more automatic.

#6: Running Dictation

This 4-skills, student-centred ESL activity is one of my favourites. You can use it to review just about anything! Try it out in some of your classes today and I’m sure your students will love it. It’s perfect for those “dead” classes who are apathetic to just about everything! It has a serious element of competition to it that students seem to love.

#7: Board Games

I love to play board games in my real life and so I’m always sure to use them frequently in my classes. They’re one of the best ESL review activities I can think of! It’s really, really easy to make your own ESL board games and it’ll only take a few minutes once you get the hang of it. Students really love them and they work in a class of any size. You just have to divide the students up into groups of 3-5. Don’t forget to bring a little prize for the winner in each group–it makes these ESL board games a bit more fun!

#8: Surveys

Surveys are one of my favourite “end of unit” ESL review activities. They get the students up and out of their seats and talking to their classmates. They also encourage active listening and follow-up questions, which students are often quite weak at. Click on the link above to see six of them that I use in my own classes in South Korean universities.

#9: Rock-Scissor-Paper

If you have very low-level students who are struggling to put together basic questions and answers, this is the ESL review activity for you! The best part about it is that it gets the students up out of their seats and moving around the classroom.

#10: Role-Plays

Role-plays are often quite a nice way to round out a unit. They one of my favourite ESL review activities, especially for lower-level students. They encourage students to get a bit creative with the language that they’ve learned. Personalizing it can often make it far more memorable.

[IreneBezhina]

Thanks a lot for review activities! I often use #5 activity called Disappearing text to learn a song or a poem with my students.

I'll try Running Dictation with my primary students, I want them to learn how to spell English words. The thing is they have just learned the alphabet, so, they'll be able to revise both letters and simple vocabulary.