101 Bright Ideas
ESL Activities for All Ages

Beginning -- Advanced. Bright Ideas is a compilation of 101 motivating activities for upper elementary and secondary ESL/Bilingual students. Each useful activity is classified according to skill level, objective, function/grammar, and ESL theme to allow for flexibility in selecting activities to accommodate students' needs. Activities are grouped into five units and include detailed instructions to teachers.

Index of Themes. Index of Functions. Index of Structures. Introduction. References. 1. Remember My Name. 2. Getting to Know You. 3. Tic-Tac-Toe with Verbs. 4. Spelling Bee. 5. Scavenger Hunt. 6. Monkey Say, Monkey Do. 7. Gossip. 8. Traffic Jam. 9. Decoding the Code. 10. Sorry! 11. Shopping. 12. Seeing Double. 13. Guess What? 14. Supercalifragalisticexpialidoshus. 15. Memory Teaser. 16. Destiny. 17. Guess Where? 18. Guess Who? 19. Guesstimates. 20. Could You Repeat That Please? 21. Ten Questions. 22. Mixed-Up Tunes. 23. Cartoon Creativity. 24. War of the Words. 25. Word Chain. 26. Hangman. 27. Pictographics. 28. Charades. 29. Word Bingo. 30. Charabia. 31. Tic-Tac-Toe Quiz. 32. Word Association. 33. Thirty Seconds. 34. Find-a-Word Puzzles. 35. Verb Round-Up. 36. Time Passes. 37. Word Games. 38. Happy Holidays! 39. Getting to Know You. 40. Making a Calendar. 41. Create-a-Sentence. 42. Eating Out. 43. Word Blitz. 44. This Sporting Life. 45. What Next? 46. Identify Rectangles. 47. Building Words. 48. Say It in Numbers. 49. Interview Guide. 50. Acrostics. 51. Pyramid. 52. Sweethearts. 53. Telephone Talk. 54. Tongue-Twisters. 55. Verbal Baseball. 56. Hidden Agenda. 57. Classified Ads. 58. Domino Effect. 59. What's the Difference? 60. Matchmaking. 61. What Would You Do? 62. Games Children Play. 63. You Can't Miss It! 64. Last Night. 65. Weather Forecasts. 66. Top Tunes. 67. Informal English. 68. Coke vs. Pepsi. 69. Make Your Own Yearbook. 70. Looking at Ads. 71. Color and Mood. 72. MegaQuiz. 73. Listen Closely. 74. Limericks. 75. Haiku. 76. What a Mouthful! 77. Armchair Travel. 78. Film Fun. 79. Videotaping a Scene. 80. Would You Like to Leave a Message? 81. New Year's Resolutions. 82. Tell Me About It! 83. What Should I Do? 84. Definitions. 85. A Puppet Show. 86. Mix 'n' Match. 87. Stereotypes. 88. For or Against? 89. Who's Telling the Truth? 90. Who's Bluffing? 91. Headlines. 92. Sandwich Stories. 93. A Panel Discussion. 94. Opening Up. 95. Do It Yourself. 96. Class President. 97. Succeeding in Sales. 98. Put Yourself in Their Shoes! 99. Let's Take a Trip. 100. A Book of Shared Experiences. 101. Sing Along.