zappli by ESL expertz
Games and activities
for the online classroom
Rediscover live classroom sensations in your online courses:
draw random cards, play, surprise your students… Teach better.
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Free application
The application is free to use with your own activities or
those specially designed for the platform by ESL Expertz.
How does it work?
- Share your screen or display it in the classroom
- Select a folder on your computer containing images
- Sort the images you want to use
- Use the images with the application to play games or perform activities
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Resource Library
The Z team has selected several resources
and activities compatible with Zappli.
Ideas on the blog
Zappli: My Town 2024
Another resource that has been updated for 2024 and Zappli. My Town 2024 is a powerful printable resource I highly recommend for anyone still teaching in a regular classroom. You can use this resource to discover, practice and review anything to do with towns, cities,...
Zappli: How to play Zkrabble
I will call this a Zappli "original" in quotes because while I did go to the trouble of making our own little wooden letters, it's obviously not a new idea! However, this particular implementation is something you haven't seen before, and could be something to really...
Zappli: Make your own Google Image activity
If you haven't checked out one of our two introduction videos to the Zappli application, it might be helpful to check one of those out first. When I first started teaching, I would come up with lots of fun little ideas to engage my students and help them retain...
Zappli: Grammaticards
If you're not familiar with the Zappli, you can check out our first post on how to use it here >> This is just another small example of how you could use it with your students to discover, practice or review verbs, structures and expressions for cause and...
Zappli: Where is the sheep?
It's so fun to see a company grow and develop. When the Z team started off back in 2010, they were using Microsoft Word to create simple teaching resources and card games for French teachers around the world. Fast forward to 2024 and we are releasing our very own...
Get creative!
Invent your own Zappli activities!
Invent your own card-based activity (images, words, phrases…), make or find the images fit to purpose, put them in a folder, and away we go!