Ranking & Reasoning
Ranking activity has students debate priorities from vacation essentials to job factors. Partners negotiate rankings and defend choices across ten topics.
ESL Speaking Activities
Explore ESL speaking activities for adults that turn real-life topics into easy, engaging conversations without feeling childish, awkward, or repetitive.
Food: What’s This?
Speaking activity teaching food vocabulary through pictures including meals, dishes, and common food items for beginner English students.
City: What’s This?
ESL speaking activity using pictures to teach city vocabulary including transportation, buildings, and street features for beginner English learners.
Home: What’s This?
ESL activity teaching home vocabulary through pictures including furniture, appliances, and household items for beginner English students.
Travel: What’s This?
A2-B1 speaking activity teaching travel vocabulary through pictures including airport items, accommodation, and travel essentials for beginner students.
Technology: What’s This?
Name tech gadgets fast in this esl speaking activity using pictures of everyday devices from laptops to smartwatches.
Pets: What’s This?
Fast-paced A2 speaking activity where students name pets and pet items in this engaging vocabulary game. Perfect for building confidence with animal English.
Halloween Connections
Group spooky words, solve Halloween-themed puzzles, and test your English skills with this fun B1–C1 ESL activity featuring 15 slides and answers.
Guess the Horror Movie
Halloween ESL activity where students guess horror movies from pixelated images, describe plots, and discuss spooky follow-up questions.
Halloween Hot Takes
15 fiery Halloween hot takes for B2–C1 ESL students to debate, agree, or argue using natural informal phrases and online-style reactions.
Scare-o-Meter
Scare-o-Meter is a fun ESL Halloween speaking activity with 15 scary situations to rank and discuss. Perfect for B1–C1 students of all ages.
Ghostly Confessions
Be a ghost and tell your story! A fun Halloween ESL activity for B1–C1 students with key phrases, characters, and creative speaking practice.
Halloween Pronunciation Challenge
Practice 25 Halloween words with audio and tips. Fun pronunciation challenge for B1–C1 ESL learners to improve clarity and confidence.
Haunted House Real Estate
Halloween ESL role-play: sell 13 haunted properties using persuasive English. Fun, spooky speaking practice for B2–C1 classrooms.
Magic Potions
A fun Halloween ESL activity where students invent magic potions to boost English skills. Perfect for creative speaking and classroom engagement.
Word Puzzles
Solve 16 creative English word puzzles that hide idioms or phrases. Fun challenge for B2–C1 ESL students to think fast and explain meanings.
What’s This Called? (Bathroom Items)
Fun ESL vocabulary game for A2–B1 students. Look at bathroom items and say their names fast! Great for warm-ups or quick review activities.
Exaggerate a Small Event
Turn tiny events into huge dramas! A fun ESL speaking activity to build emotional language and creativity (B1–C1).
AI or Real?
Look at 30 images and decide: AI or real? A fun speaking activity for all ESL levels to practice describing, guessing, and sharing opinions.
What Was Typed?
In "What Was Typed?", students guess the search term behind Google results. With 15 fun and quirky queries, it sparks discussion and laughter—accuracy or humor wins!
Guess the App
Students guess 20 popular apps from descriptions, practicing tech vocabulary and discussing their own app experiences. Suitable for B1-B2 students.