Fifty Zero Preparation Games: A Resource Book for EFL Teachers

by Christopher Walker

If you're an EFL teacher, you'll know that it's impossible to plan every single lesson so that it lasts exactly the right amount of time. Sometimes your students finish before you expect, and sometimes an activity crashes and burns so badly that you decide simply to move on and forget about it. The idea of 'Fifty Zero Preparation Games' is simple - it is a resource book for EFL teachers to help them in precisely those moments when they don't otherwise know where to turn. Simply open the book - at random, if you like - and use the communicative activity on that page to inject some energy back into your lesson. Or use one of the games as a reward to offer your students when they've battled hard for an hour already on some obscure aspect of English grammar.

There are three kinds of games to be found in this book - some for Writing, some that involve Drawing, and those that will get your students Speaking. But all of the games have two things in first, they will encourage your students to communicate with each other; and second, they will require zero preparation time. In most cases, the most you'll need in terms of materials to get the game going is some scrap paper, and perhaps also a set of dice. But that's it - the whole point of this book is to offer you something that is ready to pick up and go!"It's always important to have some back up activities and fillers...some 'tricks up your sleeve.' Christopher Walker's new book provides exactly those tricks. It's essential reading and very easy to dip into and extract from. This should be part of every English language school's resource library."

Glenn Standish (Director of Studies, IH Toruń)

117 pages, Paperback

Published December 21, 2019