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Introduction

After thirty years experience as an English teacher I am delighted to share with colleagues from all over the world these 40 group dynamics that have worked well during the days I have had the pleasure of working with ESL students. I truly hope the activities are found useful to complement your lesson plans (resource material can be downloaded from www.mindfulenglish.net).

There is a last set of activities which are kept separately as they were created to suit lockdown lessons during the coronavirus pandemic. These activities are the most special as when I look back I seem to remember my students expressions of worry and concern about the times we were living. My whole intention at waking up every morning was to generate as much connection as possible with them through the videoconference rooms, stay connected and try and forget for two hours that we actually were locked in at home for the rest of the day, week, month… I do remember putting all our heart and efforts into it.

The activities do not follow any other than an alphabetical order. They are not organised by topic, level or skill. I do not normally put lesson plans in a box but rather try and be creative and open, have an outline of what I would like to do and how, then get the feeling of the students in the classroom and decide from there.

Most activities can possibly be adapted to different levels or may inspire you to originally recreate your own for your groups.