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| Using ESL Conversation Games to Help Your Students Become More Confident Speakers
By:Matt Tamsczak

Wouldn't it be amazing if your students could very easily have conversations with having to think of the correct answer to a specific question from the text book?!

When I first started to teach English as a Second Language I was amazed at the fact that most of my students couldn't have a real conversation. They could only have conversations that they had memorized from their text book; or repeat back and forth conversations that they had practiced with their Chinese English teacher. It was and continues to be a sad state for most ESL students.

However, there is an easy and effective way to help build your students conversation skills.

The way to do this is by using ESL Conversation Games. And I am not talking about just playing games that have no learning value in them. I am talking about incorporating conversation into some fun games that will encourage your students to speak more often.

These ESL Conversation Games are easy to find by doing a simple Google Search...and then picking one out of the hundreds of different ESL games that are available.

Since I started to use ESL games in my classroom my students have improved tremendously. These games are fun to play, and more importantly they really do help improve the students conversation skills.

Not only can you ESL Conversation Games to build conversation skills; you can also incorporate many other ESL games for grammar, reading, writing, speaking, phonics and practically every single subject that you teach.

ESL games allow your class to be fun. And when your students are having fun, they will participate more, speak more, learn faster and BE MORE CONFIDENT USING ENGLISH IN EVERY ASPECT!

If you would like to see how to videos on how to play the top 10 ESL Conversation Games go to ESL CONVERSATION GAMES http://www.squidoo.com/ESLGAMES_HGB


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