Survival Exercises for ESL Students
When first learning English as an ESL student – whether you are a student in high school or college or a person here for business – sometimes you need some easy exercises that will keep you afloat. The first few weeks and months especially can be very scary as you navigate the unknown of a new school or office meeting new people every day and doing things in a completely different way.
Having some survival activities that can get you over the hurdle of those painful first weeks will make life easier and each day you will find your English skills improving. The computer is an amazing tool that can help anyone do just about anything and offers all types of exercises that will test your abilities until you can excel.
A slider puzzle allows you to move words around in a sentence until it is correct. This is particularly good for sentence structure as often translation from one language to another can be fractured and awkward when it is translated literally so instead of saying: Where is the bathroom? You end up saying: bath room is where?
Still other activities allow the participant to correct mistakes in a sentence, learn when to capitalize and when not to and when to use question marks or exclamation marks as opposed to periods. Many of the exercises are multiple choice and others are fill in the blank. There are travel related quizzes or ones related to particular aspects of daily life: going to the market, to the bank, to the doctor – and words and phrases associated with each.
There are exercises that test listening skills, pronunciation and grammar and vocabulary and some associated with slang expressions and idioms that might be encountered. The list is endless of types of survival exercises that will be lifesavers for ESL students everywhere.
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