You’re not going to find a better ESL classroom resource than English Rocks! 101 ESL Games, Activities, and Lesson Plans.
This book will help any teacher that’s struggling in an ESL classroom. And if you’re an old hand at teaching, well, I bet you can get a few new ideas as well.
The book has 101 ideas, and each of them has its own page or stretches over multiple pages. In fact, there are 211 pages with this eBook and 271 pages with the print book.
Yes, that’s right…English Rocks! is now available in print format!
Both versions have 112 pictures to explain the ideas that are discussed, and you’ll pick up a lot just from looking at those. With over 35,000 words, this isn’t some dinky manual either. This is a real book, with real solutions to your classroom problems.
It’s written in an easy-to-read style that won’t have you scratching your head wondering what’s being discussed. You can easily flip through the different lessons with the table of contents, so finding just the thing you need to get your class going now is no problem.
This book will help any teacher that’s struggling in an ESL classroom. And if you’re an old hand at teaching, well, I bet you can get a few new ideas as well.
The book has 101 ideas, and each of them has its own page or stretches over multiple pages. In fact, there are 211 pages with this eBook and 271 pages with the print book.
Yes, that’s right…English Rocks! is now available in print format!
Both versions have 112 pictures to explain the ideas that are discussed, and you’ll pick up a lot just from looking at those. With over 35,000 words, this isn’t some dinky manual either. This is a real book, with real solutions to your classroom problems.
It’s written in an easy-to-read style that won’t have you scratching your head wondering what’s being discussed. You can easily flip through the different lessons with the table of contents, so finding just the thing you need to get your class going now is no problem.
Real Solutions to Your ESL Problems
I taught English in China for 5 years. I’ve seen little 3-year olds who cry and cry and older teenagers who mope and mope. Most students don’t want to talk. You can try to make them, but that doesn’t work out well for you or them. It’s much better to make them want to talk.
So how do you do that? You give them something they like. Give them games, give them activities, and give them excitement. When students are excited and having fun, speech naturally spills forth.
So how do you do that? You give them something they like. Give them games, give them activities, and give them excitement. When students are excited and having fun, speech naturally spills forth.
Public school classes in China are large
If you’re teaching ESL, games and activities are your best friends. These things don’t detract from learning, they add to it. All of the games and activities in English Rocks! have been tried and perfected by me in dozens of classes over the years. The last thing I want is a horrible lesson, and I’m not going to give that to you.
Anyone who’s scrolled through the posts on this website knows that I provide quality. If you’ve taken advantage of the free downloads, you know they work. This book will give you the ideas, and this site will give you the files…FOR FREE!
Anyone who’s scrolled through the posts on this website knows that I provide quality. If you’ve taken advantage of the free downloads, you know they work. This book will give you the ideas, and this site will give you the files…FOR FREE!
The free files you get with this book
Those are all the free files you’ll get when you buy the book. There are 50…which is an incredible deal. Some of those, such as Deserted Island Adventure and Mountain Plane Crash Adventure, you’d have to pay for otherwise. They’re both free with the purchase of this book.
Some of these games and activities are up on this site now for free. You can find the following articles from more than a year ago:
If you buy this book you’ll get all those ideas and more. Your students will love you and your time as an ESL teacher will finally be headache-free. So toss out that textbook and burn those boring grammar sheets and use something that works!
Some of these games and activities are up on this site now for free. You can find the following articles from more than a year ago:
- Fly Swatter;
- Clothes Back-to-Back;
- Big Word;
- Battleship;
- Palm Reading;
- Name Scraps;
- Fun with Google;
- Doctor, Doctor;
- 5-in-1;
- Hangman.
If you buy this book you’ll get all those ideas and more. Your students will love you and your time as an ESL teacher will finally be headache-free. So toss out that textbook and burn those boring grammar sheets and use something that works!
English Games are Key
My students loved playing games in my ESL classes and they’ll love playing game in yours when you try out some of the ideas in English Rocks! But when you want to get down to the nitty-gritty of English, there’ll be plenty of activities, warm-ups, and lesson plans to effectively target the vocabulary and grammar that you’re using in class on a daily basis.
ESL class in China in Winter (Notice coats? No heat in the South)
I’ve put my five years of teaching knowledge into this book, and my biggest hope is that it will help other teachers out there. The book’s got things that will really save you in class. I wish I had something like this when I started teaching – it would have saved me headaches!
The good news is that you can now pull this book out right in class. It’s in print format, which means you can buy it and keep it in your bag. Of course you can bring it to class on your iPad, or even print out the PDF version if you get it on Smashwords. Hey, might as well get all the free use you can out of those school computers, right?
The point is, use this book any way you can to keep your sanity. I know if you’re teaching ESL right now you know what I’m talking about. For all of you thinking about it or perhaps just waiting to do so, however, I want you to know that even a dozen kids yelling and shouting in class will wear on you after a time. Even when you’re having fun things get loud and just…well, it’s overwhelming at times.
Books like this and other quality ESL teaching books will help you handle this. I wish you luck, but I know with English Rocks! you won’t need it.
You can get this ESL eBook for any format you’d like:
So what are you waiting for? Get your class rockin’ with English Rocks!
The good news is that you can now pull this book out right in class. It’s in print format, which means you can buy it and keep it in your bag. Of course you can bring it to class on your iPad, or even print out the PDF version if you get it on Smashwords. Hey, might as well get all the free use you can out of those school computers, right?
The point is, use this book any way you can to keep your sanity. I know if you’re teaching ESL right now you know what I’m talking about. For all of you thinking about it or perhaps just waiting to do so, however, I want you to know that even a dozen kids yelling and shouting in class will wear on you after a time. Even when you’re having fun things get loud and just…well, it’s overwhelming at times.
Books like this and other quality ESL teaching books will help you handle this. I wish you luck, but I know with English Rocks! you won’t need it.
You can get this ESL eBook for any format you’d like:
So what are you waiting for? Get your class rockin’ with English Rocks!
