{"metaData":{"title":"What Is ESLKit? Free Voice-Activated Games & Classroom Tools for ESL Teachers","tags":["eslguide","esltools","eslgame"],"date":"2021-06-21T00:00:00.000Z","excerpt":"ESLKit is a free digital ESL classroom — voice-activated games, a live smart board, and real-time scoring on one screen. No student devices, no account required to play.","author":"Eslkit team","image":"https://eslkit.org/esl-logo.png"},"content":{"html":"

Teach. Manage. Assess. Your whole ESL classroom, on one free screen. That is the idea behind ESLKit.org — a growing kit of voice-activated games, classroom tools, and a live smart board built specifically for ESL teachers. Every game is free, runs in the browser, and needs no student devices: project it on your smart board and the whole class plays together. No account is required to play.

This guide is your map to everything inside ESLKit, grouped by what you actually do in a lesson: Teach, Manage, and Assess.

Teach — run the room from one screen

The Smart Board turns any display into an ESL command center: countdown timers, a traffic-light signal, a random picker, a freehand drawing layer, and pronunciation and flashcard widgets — plus one-tap access to any ESLKit game. It even auto-saves your board so it is ready for the next lesson.

Manage — keep class fair and moving

A quick word on the why: cold-calling raises anxiety, while a visible, random picker spreads turns fairly and keeps participation low-stakes — more students talking, less pressure on any one of them.

Assess — check understanding while they play

These games double as formative assessment. Several use the browser’s speech recognition, so students practice pronunciation by speaking the answer, not just clicking it:

Turning review into a game is not just for fun: retrieval practice — actively recalling a word to score a point — sticks far better than passively re-reading a list.

Free to play, Pro to plan ahead

Browse and play everything at ESLKit.org/games with no sign-up. Create a free account when you want to save your own vocabulary lists and class rosters and unlock premium game modes, so your collections are ready the next time you teach.

ESLKit is built and improved alongside ESL teachers — to make lessons more interactive, more inclusive, and a lot less work to prep. Visit ESLKit.org and try your first game today.

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