ESL Games: 176 English Language Games for Children: Make your teaching easy and fun

I bought this because I have another teaching game book of Shelley Vernon that is geared towards adult learners. However, I thought it might be nice to have a digital copy of a game book with some games that were appropriate for my younger students. I just recently started to load up my tablet with things that I can use in my classroom. I like having this book with me at work because I can use it when I am writing my lesson plans. Each game has the category, materials needed, target English level of the students, and the group size that it can be used with so it is easy to find one to use. Another perk to having this on my tablet at work is that when we finish a lesson early I can quickly find a game for us to play in the last few minutes. I have gone through and highlighted some of the ones that do not require any materials and don't take a long time to play.The last thing that I like about it is something that I didn't like about other books. Some game books have only games that everyone already knows like Hangman. This book had a lot of games that I never had before or variations that I never thought of... So that was nice. I wish that I had had this book when I used to be a substitute teacher. Sometimes the teacher did not leave a lesson plan or there was extra time at the end of the class. If I had this, I would have been a more popular sub!

This book has been a great help and I found that my pupils learn vocabulary easily, and actually remember it ! In addition it's really fun teaching like this, even I enjoy myself more in the lessons. It can be hard work keeping the noise down but a simple tip in the book gets around that problem, by playing all the listening games silently (just the teacher or designated pupils are allowed to speak otherwise the offending team is eliminated). There are a ton of ideas in this book so that even a well-known game like Simon Says is written up with fresh angles and ways of using it. To any new teachers I'd say this book is a must-have. To seasoned teachers who don't use that many games I'd also highly recommend this book. If you are a teacher who uses games from start to finish then I'd say get the plays and skits by the same author instead.

I am constantly on the search for ways to teach English using an active format. This book is full of great ideas that I have not seen before. In addition, when you contact the author, she has great resources to support implementing the ideas. After getting this book, I ordered the electronic versions of other resources because I wanted to quickly have access to these great resources. I am super impressed! For a beginner at teaching there are helpful tips to get you started. If you are a pro, then jump right into the activity. I use these materials in a summer camp setting and I know the campers will love these activities and also really improve their English! Thanks so much!

This book is full of fun interactive games for kids! It will take me a very long time to try them all out. There are also free downloadable lesson plans that come with the purchase. My wish for the next edition is that the games are grouped by Language Domain. This way I could flip directly to the pages that have Speaking games, etc. Thanks to Shelley for making my teaching life easier! I love not having to reinvent the wheel.

This is a fabulous book! Shelley describes well how to use each game as well as providing a guide for what each game might be best for - listening or speaking. Children respond with enthusiasm to all the games I have used, so much so that sometimes they go home, invent their own version of the game and bring it back to me. It is so fun to have children so enthused about their learning that they continue to “play” English on their own outside of my teaching time with them.

This book has many interactive games and educational activities to do with your ESL/ELL students. I refer to it many times when I need to get my students' attention and offer them activities which align with their learning style. Because ESL/ELL classes can have multiple levels in one class, this book can help you (teacher, aide, substitute) address each learning style without having to do individualized learning plans. (Which is almost impossible for one teacher to do with multiple students.)

This is one of the better books of games for language arts/ESL and EFL classrooms on the market today. Many of the games require the teacher to either have or to make flashcards, but I heartily recommend this book because there are games ideas that do not require flashcards. There is also a lot of good advice by the author on how to utilize these games in your classroom.

Very useful games for teaching especially if you just started teaching .The games are very well explained and also you can adapt them easily to other lessons .

I'm new to teaching English to primary school children and I felt I wasn't doing a particularly good job until I found this book! My classes used to be dull and boring. But not anymore! Since I started using the ideas and games from the book my lessons are just amazing, both for the kids and for me! I see students previously not interested in English joining in with the games and learning without even realising it! I see them remember almost 100 percent of the material from each class. I see them run to me in the school corridor and asking when our next lesson will be because they can't wait to play more games. I used to have lots of class management issues with the lower grades but thanks to the tips and ideas in the book - not anymore!!! I love this book! I would recommend it to any teacher who cares about his/her students and wishes them to have wonderful learning experience! The best part for me personally is that I gained so much confidence as a teacher since I got this book! I used to be scared going into the classes, but now they are exactly the kind of classes that got me into teaching in the first place!

I love Shelley Ann's approach to teaching English, it is wonderful to have an author of a book so accessable, I have found Shelley to be extremely helpful . I have put into practise her ideas and games in the classroom and it has been a wonderful success and such a sense of satisfaction to see the children enjoying the whole experience of learning English!!! Not only are the children enjoying the class but I enjoy their enthusiam too!!I highly recommend Shelley's book to anyone who is trying to teach English.

This book is excellent and I highly recommend it. As a new teacher I find the book and the author's website a valuable source of ideas. If you sign up for a newsletter you receive emails with game ideas which help keep lessons original and fun.The way the book is organised makes it easy to find activities of interest. Over the last month I have tried and tested various games from this book and they have all worked really well. I find children need to move about and be participative and this book has endless ideas to get kids involved with the language they are learning.

Five stars is really not sufficient for this wonderful inspirational book!!! I simply couldn't recommend it enough.I have two children and a very busy schedule so when I have classes I need quick exciting ideas.It has made teaching fun and the results are incredible!! It's a bible you shouldn't be without it!! I should like to thank Shelley very much indeed for every page of this fantastic book!!

Excellent book, glad I purchased and not listened to negative reviews