50 “Online” Tasks For The English Language Classroom

1. Make a voicethread for the class. Go to this class voicethread and introduce yourself.
Listen to your classmates talk about themselves. Practice your grammar on Voicethread.

2. Read some books on Gif Lingua. Select your level and a theme. Sign up and write a book
then show it to the class.

3. Go to Penzu and start a daily diary. Write about anything you want. Share it with your class
or teacher Also make a wiki and write there! Or just make a diary on Google Docs.

4. Send a video email on a topic with Chrome and Gmail. Just click, record and then send the
email to the teacher or to a shared class email address.

5. You be the teacher. Use Screencastify and send a screencast to the class explaining how to do
something online. How to use a program, use a website, code, install etc ...

6. Go to Padlet and make a wall. Brainstorm all you know about topic and post the information.
Invite classmates to comment. Also make a project wall with Lino.it , Jamboard or Trello.

7. Go to Lyrics Training and study English with your favorite songs. Share your results. Who in
the class can do better?

8. Visit Quizlet and study flashcard sets and quizzes related to your class topics. Even have a
Quizlet Live competition with classmates!

9. Play a game of Jeopardy. Challenge your classmates to a game - see who knows more!
Also try Who Wants To Be A Millionaire - how much money can you make?

10. Go to EnglishCentral and study this video. Who in the class can get the most points?

11. Use Zoom and invite / interview someone interesting that you know. Record it and share
with the class. Example here.

12. Choose a famous person. Make a Fakebook page for the person. Share your creation.

13. Go to WordItOut and type in or paste a text. Blackout non-important words for a poem.
Print and share with the class. Make one about a special topic.
14. Create an arcade game in English for your classmates at Class Tools.

15. Create an online poem using this generator. Share with the class. Be creative!
Create an I AM Poem online and read it to class.

16. DEAR: Drop Everything And Read. Read simple, student created books on
Tarheel Reader.
17. Go to Glogster and make a poster about “___________”. Present it to the
class and post on the class wiki, website or google classroom.

18. Select a famous person and then see if Akinator can guess him/her! Do the same
with an object/thing on 20 questions.

19. Go to Storybird and read some stories created by students. Then, make your own
Storybird.

20. Visit the class Flipgrid and post up a video about something you car about. Discuss!

21. Play Draw My Thing – the incredible online Pictionary game.

22. Do a webquest with the class. Students search the web to get the answers to the
questions. Lots of info. here.

23. Go to Facejack and upload a photo of a person or animal. Add audio and listen to
this person or animal. Share with the class.

24. Start a project on a topic you know a lot about. Share all your links, videos on Blublup

25. Study some grammar with Youtube teachers using ClipLingo.

26. In groups or the whole class make a doodle video of a favorite song. Example here.

27. Go to Transl8it.com and copy some of your coursebook text. Challenge a classmate
to translate the text message version of the text.

28. Start an improv scene using this unique generator.

29. Practice your writing skills by writing out your own Star Wars Intro. Use this
generator. Easy and you'll love the results.

30. Listen to some podcasts or simple English language recordings (with transcripts).
Try Zapp! English. Or Elllo.

31. Go to 5 card Flickr and create a random story. Then tell the story to others in your
group or take turns with one student telling for each photo. See the pptx version.

32. Why not play online video games (in English)? There are some great ones. Give
Minecraft a go. Or try The Sims. Also, change your operating system language to English!

33. Get speaking with the ELT Buzz unique online discussion generators. Just click and
get a new random prompt and keep talking.

34. Practice pronunciation. Use the Sounds Of Speech app and practice effectively!

35. Students watch a How To video on eHow. After, students must explain to another
group how to do it. Then finish by watching the video again together.

36. Make a Project Peace class video. Use the Peace Song Packs. Spread the word and
emotion of peace in the world.
37. Go to GeoGuessr. Students compete to name places, countries, cities around
the world in this fun Google run geography game.

38. Make a private class Facebook group. Post a debate topic and students can debate a
topic there using the comment feature.

39. Watch a silent video and have one student in the group turn their back to the video.
The others in the group describe what’s happening in the video. Take turns.
40. Watch any news story. Students listen repeatedly and then try to report what the
5Ws were. Use these pre-made templates.

41. Try some online dictation. Listen and then type what you hear. It's that easy. Slow down
the speech if needed or pause. Try Redacto.

42. Use Twitter in your classroom. Favorite ways include using a hashtag and having
students play story tag – adding to a story sentence by sentence. Create a backchannel
for student comments during class on Backchannel Chat.
43. Translate with google. Students translate a passage from their native language into
English. Then, copy it into google translate and translate. Compare the two English
translations.

44. Try some speed reading. Use an online teleprompter like Zacue to read at a set speed.
Also try Cue Prompter to read the days news like a real anchor person.

45. Youglish. Get some pronunciation practice. Look up words on Youtube and then practice.

46. Practice your English typing/keyboard skills. Try the BBC’s Dance Mat.

47. Textivate. Students load in text from their coursebook and make exercises. Share the
link and other students can complete.

48. Learn English by watching movies and doing exercises related to the language in the movie.
Speechyard makes this very easy to do.

49. Create a series of signs with Redkid.net . Share your messages with the class.

50. Sing and learn English. Sign up and download the player & 1,000s of Karoke songs to sing
with Go Sing or Karafun. Get them all on ELT Buzz Teaching Resources.

51. Bonus. Now that students have done so many “tech” tasks - challenge them to Do
Nothing For 2 Minutes.