CHARACTER ROLE PLAY: Each student takes one of the central characters in the article. The teacher can add more. Students with the same roles discuss their characters and plan what they will say in the role play. The teacher sets the scene for the role play.
STUDENT DECIDED ROLES: The teacher outlines the nature / situation [...]

Game Categories:
Opener
Energizer
Communication
Team-building
Review
Topical
Purpose: To help participants recognize the innate ability they have to learn new material.
Time Required: 10 to 15 minutes.
Size of Group: Unlimited, but participants should work in “rotating” pairs.
Materials Required: None.

Game Categories:
Opener
Energizer
Communication
Team-building
Review
Topical
Purpose: To get small groups thinking together and creatively solving tough problems.
Time Required: 20 minutes.
Size of Group: Unlimited, but participants should work in small groups of five to seven.
Materials Required: A flipchart with the alphabet displayed vertically, prepared in advance by the trainer.

Game Categories:
Opener
Energizer
Communication
Team-building
Review
Topical
Purpose: To introduce participants to one another by uncovering their individual tastes.
Time Required: 10 to 25 minutes.
Size of Group: Unlimited.
Materials Required: None.

Game Categories:
Opener
Energizer
Communication
Team-building
Review
Topical
Purpose: To challenge participants to develop metaphors from everyday objects as an exercise in creativity.
Time Required: 10 to 20 minutes.
Size of Group: Unlimited, but participants should work in small groups of five to seven.
Materials Required: A paper sack for every small group, filled with a variety of everyday objects.

Game Categories:
Opener
Energizer
Communication
Team-building
Review
Topical: Sales
Purpose: To help sales trainees more readily absorb product information, ultimately producing material that can be used in new sales trainee orientation, as review material, or as job aids.
Time Required: 10 to 15 minutes.
Size of Group: Unlimited, but participants should work in small groups.
Materials Required: None.

Game Categories:
Opener
Energizer
Communication
Team-building
Review
Topical
Purpose: To help teams learn to set—and meet—group goals.
Time Required: 30 minutes, stretched over the course of a one-day session or over two days in a longer class.
Size of Group: Unlimited, but participants should work in teams of about four.
Materials Required: None.

Game Categories:
Opener
Energizer
Communication
Team-building
Review
Topical
Purpose: To help participants think creatively in any type of training class.
Time Required: 10 minutes.
Size of Group: Unlimited.
Materials Required: Flipchart.

Ideas to “test the water” regarding students’ opinions towards news and current events stories. This writing also contains additional ideas to increase students’ motivation to study English using news stories.
1. THE NEWS HABIT: Encourage your students’ news reading / viewing / listening habits, whether it be in their L1 or in English. Keeping up with [...]

English Skill Level: Advanced Beginning to Advanced
Grade Level: Secondary to Adult
Background
By and large, vocational English (VESL) grew out of adult education ESL programs that determined the need for programs that are more particularly focused on work place skills. VESL developed to meet the needs of ESL students who planned on entering the workforce or who [...]