Click here to check out the website or download the iOS app or Android app. Each video has interactive subtitles. That means you can tap on any word to see an image, definition and useful examples. But the best part? FluentU provides plenty of tools to actively practice your English vocabulary and grammar, like interactive subtitles, flashcards, vocabulary lists and more.
The site is great because the crosswords provide detailed definitions. Where other sites simply tell you that you answered incorrectly, this game will teach you the meaning of the word so you can improve. What is demand when it does not change with a change in price? The answer? Increasing, long, economies. You can even print these to take with you on your commute or to sneak into places your phone is forbidden, such as the next meeting or shhh! This is one of my favorite business English online learning tools.
They cover many business topics such as negotiations, presentations, meeting workplace idioms and more. Each post comes with audio, transcripts, quizzes members only and business English vocabulary lists to review.
The amazing part is the interactive games, such as fishing for negotiations, where you literally hook a fish that takes you to a question on business negotiations. From feeding seals to shooting soccer balls to playing battleship, there is certainly something for everyone here. The topics are very interesting and relate to the current work climate.
This site has a great collection of business simulation games. Choose the industry that you work in to learn specialized business English vocabulary and phrases that are most relevant to you. Over the years, education has evolved. In the past, education was focused on memorizing and recalling information.
The internet age makes that less important. This is where business simulation games come in. Business simulations are just that—copying, or imitating, the business world. These simulations reflect real-word operating systems and issues, making it perfect to practice your business skills while learning relevant vocabulary! Adding expression to their speech is a large step towards sounding natural and developing English fluency.
In English to sound more natural we have a set of almost automatic set of responses on hearing good, bad or surprising news. As a game you can then repeat the same sort or exercise as the activity above. Have a selection of sentences than usually require a response and then ask for the incorrect response. No one expects you to say congratulations when you tell them your little rabbits died yesterday!!!
They can, and have been, played with second language kindergarten students all the way up to native speaking business people with the same amount of fun. The language from the business people was perhaps a little ruder than the kindergarten children but only a little! It is a superb English speaking game for ESL students and native speakers. In it they had a rather colorful character called Timmy Mallet who, among other things, played a game called mallets mallet.
In this game the players, always children, had to think of a word associated with whatever Timmy said. There was no hesitation, repetition, or ummm or errrrrs allowed or they got a bonk on the head.
This is easier to show you than explain so here is a video of it! They have to say a word related to the previous word in 3 seconds or less. They can not repeat, pause or say something unrelated. For fun they can play against the teacher as well. They can do this by picking and reading a wish out of the bag and then trying to guess who it belongs to. They hav to give a reason why they think that.
Note: I have done this, or a version of this, many times without issue. However there was one time when a student wrote that they wished their parents would get back together which was pretty heartbreaking.
Although it is superb to share, in front of a class of other students may not be the time or place. I did of course talk to her after and sought some help from others in the school. It may be worth while including instructions to keep it light. Adaptations: This is also great as an Icebreaker activity for students and teacher to get to know each other.
You can keep the activity as wishes or ask them to write three things about themselves. You can even change it to two things true and one lie to add some fun and creativity. This is my number one game. It is just perfect for all levels of English learner. It can be made easier for younger and ESL students and learners and more difficult for higher levels.
No matter what level of learner is in the class you can use this game. Now watch the video to see someone very VERY good at asking the questions in action. It is better to teacher this to students with at least a basic abilty, but it doesnt have to be high level as you can level the wuestion you ask. Tips: Ask questions starting with do you, can you , will you etc usually catch students out.
Also you can repeat the students answer and add yes, or no to the end and it might catch them out to nod or repeat you. It is simply awesome to play this and as I said earlier even 5 and 6 year olds quickly grasp this English speaking game. Once i have played it with my students it is the most requested speaking game every lesson following that. Allowing your students to communicate with each other takes off some of the pressure of a whole class environment and allows them to risk take with their English speaking in a less public arena.
In this game, each student in the pair draws a picture, keeping their paper shielded from the eyes of their partner. Ideally, pictures should be fairly simple. Once the picture is complete, they explain to their partner, using words only, how to replicate the image this can be done at a desk or as a whispers type activity across school halls if you want a more physical speaking game. He may miss out how many windows, the family in front of it or all manner of details.
This allows the teacher to compare the two drawings with the students and ask what language they could have added to get more details into the picture. This really enables students to start to think about expanding and adding to the phrases they say. The difference in drawings is often pretty funny as well. It is probably easier and more adaptable for the culture or location you are teaching in to make a simple version with famous people from your area.
It is also a brilliant ice breaker between students if you teach classes who do not know one another — and especially essential if you are teaching a small class size. The game is excellent for practicing English speaking skills, though make sure you save some time for after the game to comment on any mistakes students may have made during the game. Actually this stems for a party or drinking game at universities and can be adapted to what ever vocabulary or topic you are teaching at the time.
In the university version we all stick a post it to our foreheads and have to guess the famous person we are. Similar to the Guess who game above. In ESL or Classroom use we can do this with Jobs , animals, furniture, absolutely anything all you need are some post its or similar to stick to peoples heads or backs — anywhere they can not read it. It is a great ESL speaking game for classrooms with limited resources. For every wrong guess, you lose a point. If you guess wrong seven times, you lose the round.
A strategy for this is to begin guessing by trying to figure out the vowels first and then the consonants. This is a great learning game because it helps you learn new words, particularly the long ones, and helps you memorize their spelling. This game also involves at least two players. The goal of the game is to guess a business-related word by having your partner act it out using their hands and other non-verbal expressions.
You have to guess the word based on these non-verbal cues within a certain time frame one to three minutes. This is a great game for improving your body language.
This will encourage you to think outside the box and be more creative and innovative—a skill that you can later use to come up with a business solution or plan. Catena is a mobile vocabulary game available on iOS in which the system writes a word and you have to come up with another word using the last or the last few letters of that word.
You can try this game with your friends or practice it on your own. Be creative! This game can be played alone or in a group and is sure to be a hit with people who like unconventional entertainment for its fun and somewhat silly nature.
All you have to do is ask a question, open to a random page in a business English dictionary and place your finger on a random word on that page. The fun part is trying to fit the word into an answer. Through this game, you can come up with some cool predictions and learn interesting words. You can even make it a daily habit to learn a random new word from the dictionary in this manner. By making it a silly activity, you will make the word more memorable.
All you have to do is choose a random word from a dictionary and make a grammatically correct and meaningful sentence out of it. Add a bit of challenge to this by using a timer and giving yourself a time limit: for example, 30 seconds to come up with a sentence.
Another idea is to choose more than one word, and try to fit both into a single sentence.
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