Living in Asia has been the most eye opening experience of my life. I have already had the chance to travel all over Thailand, Japan, Taiwan and China.

Before I left I was just like everybody else... working at a job that had no real growth opportunity, no chance of making big money and an empty feeling within my heart. I didn't know that I was wasting my life away trying to "Be as cool as everyone else." Finally, I just got sick of my everyday life and I took the opportunity to travel to Taiwan to teach English.

To make a long story short...it was the best decision of my life; and when I first arrived in Taiwan I didn't know how I would survive, but I hoped for the best. I very easily found work as an ESL teacher in a school in Taipei, Taiwan.

I was very nervous my first day of school / work. Unluckily, my boss and co workers were not too educated about ESL teaching games. They told me how to play a few...but these were the same games that they had been playing/teaching the students with for years. I quickly learned how to play the games that were taught to me... but I knew that there must be more fun, exciting and motivating games than just these fews.

Luckily, I have stayed in Asia working as an English teacher in Asia for the past five years of my life. I have met a lot of people, been to a lot of places and I learned from so many teachers. Some of the things that I have learned from other ESL teachers are fun and exciting ESL games. This is one of those games:

This ESL Game is called, "Mixed up Words."

This game would be the first game that I would teach a new ESL teacher because this ESL Game is so simple. To play it ~ all you have to do is think of a word. This word can be a word the class has already learned or a new word which you will teach them.

1. Think of the word in your head.

2. Write the word on the blackboard ~ BUT when you write the word; write it in the wrong order.

EX.

ietgr
aihcr
nmadrepsei
orhes
belu
3. Tell the students to write the unscramble the mixed up words ~ and then show you their paper to check the answers. The first five students who finish can win a Gold Star!

Did you figure out the answers?

1. Tiger
2. Chair
3. Spiderman
4. Horse
5. Blue

This ESL Game is probably one of the simplest ESL Games; but it can be more challenging by using harder words. Good luck and enjoy your time teaching English as a Second Language!

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