| Living in Asia has been the most eye opening | | | | that I have learned from other ESL teachers are fun |
| experience of my life. I have already had the chance | | | | and exciting ESL games. This is one of those games: |
| to travel all over Thailand, Japan, Taiwan and China. | | | | This ESL Game is called, "Mixed up Words." |
| Before I left I was just like everybody else... working at | | | | This game would be the first game that I would teach |
| a job that had no real growth opportunity, no chance | | | | a new ESL teacher because this ESL Game is so |
| of making big money and an empty feeling within my | | | | simple. To play it ~ all you have to do is think of a |
| heart. I didn't know that I was wasting my life away | | | | word. This word can be a word the class has already |
| trying to "Be as cool as everyone else." Finally, I just | | | | learned or a new word which you will teach them. |
| got sick of my everyday life and I took the opportunity | | | | 1. Think of the word in your head. |
| to travel to Taiwan to teach English. | | | | 2. Write the word on the blackboard ~ BUT when you |
| To make a long story short...it was the best decision of | | | | write the word; write it in the wrong order. |
| my life; and when I first arrived in Taiwan I didn't know | | | | EX. |
| how I would survive, but I hoped for the best. I very | | | | 1. ietgr |
| easily found work as an ESL teacher in a school in | | | | 2. aihcr |
| Taipei, Taiwan. | | | | 3. nmadrepsei |
| I was very nervous my first day of school / work. | | | | 4. orhes |
| Unluckily, my boss and co workers were not too | | | | 5. belu |
| educated about ESL teaching games. They told me | | | | 3. Tell the students to write the unscramble the mixed |
| how to play a few...but these were the same games | | | | up words ~ and then show you their paper to check |
| that they had been playing/teaching the students with | | | | the answers. The first five students who finish can win |
| for years. I quickly learned how to play the games that | | | | a Gold Star! |
| were taught to me... but I knew that there must be | | | | Did you figure out the answers? |
| more fun, exciting and motivating games than just | | | | 1. Tiger |
| these fews. | | | | 2. Chair |
| Luckily, I have stayed in Asia working as an English | | | | 3. Spiderman |
| teacher in Asia for the past five years of my life. I | | | | 4. Horse |
| have met a lot of people, been to a lot of places and I | | | | 5. |
| learned from so many teachers. Some of the things | | | | |