Five-Minute Activities: A Resource Book of Short Activities

by Andrew Wright, Penny Ur, Andrew Wright

Book Overview

This book contains over 130 short activities for the language classroom: some are well-tried favourites clearly restated; others are new ideas or variations. The activities can be used to support learners with particular aspects of language, help students and teacher to get to know each other, provide a smooth transition between two major parts of a lesson, supplement a coursebook, and introduce or round off lessons. The activities are laid out simply...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521397812
• ISBN13: 9780521397810
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 117 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Endlessly useful

I taught adult EFL in Poland this summer, and this book was the most popular by far with all the teachers. Even if you don't use an activity straight out of the book, flipping through helped me generate ideas of my own. Yes, it very much depends on your students, class size, level, etc.--but what's new about that? The activities range from the true quickie "filler" to sound ideas on practicing grammar points. And yes, I did have to adapt most of the ideas, but that's nothing new either. It's pricey, but I think worth it.

I take exception for its usefulness for EVERY teaching situation...

This book has been of limited usefullness for me. I've found only a few activities in here that would be practical for my classes of 40 Korean middle schoolers, but I also believe I'm in a bit of an unusual situation trying to teach English to such big classes. That being said, I did find it useful for, if nothing else, getting my own ideas rolling. I would also like to add that it's rather pricey for a flimsy little book, but I'm sure that if my situation were different it would have been well worth the money. I can pretty much recommend it to everyone EXCEPT those with unusually large class sizes, but it would be good for them too if they could find it used. Otherwise there are good resources to be found online for free.

Excellent

This is an excellent tool for beginners and advanced teachers alike. This book helps you find ways to teach English, and while you are using it you will develop your own unique ways of changing their material to fit your needs.

When we're not on the mood

Sometimes we tachers are so tired after a week of hard work,that we can't think of a good warm up activity. That's when we needthis book , it has excellent ideas for all needs and purposes. I really like it. It's like a Bible to me.

Extremely good for all levels, a teacher's pet!

I've had a copy of this book since 1995. I keep it in my bag of things for class as it helps to fill in those odd minutes of leftover time. Here in China I find the activities can be used for much longer than 5 minutes.I highly recommend it. Money well spent.