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Activities Teaching activities to try out in the classroom. For each one you will find a simple guide for preparation and procedure, and sometimes printable worksheets too. |
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Superlative noughts and crossesI like to use this activity to promote the use of the superlative form. It utilises a well-known game that students find stimulating and fun to play. |
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Listen and drawThis is a simple speaking activity that can be used with A2 level groups to provide practice in using prepositions of place and giving clear instructions. |
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My wikipediaThis is an activity 'about' the internet, but it doesn't start online. In fact it has to start offline: the idea is that students try and predict the first paragraph of the Wikipedia entry for their town, region or country. |
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Family snapshotIf you teach young learners who are all the same age and live in the same town, opportunities for sharing and comparing life experiences can feel more limited than they would be in a multi-national class of adult learners. |
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I couldn't believe my eyesIn this activity the teacher creates situations for the students to get plenty of practice with the form and meaning of the past perfect. |
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CLIL Citizenship: RecyclingAs citizens of a world with limited resources we all need to think about how best to use these resources, whether we are in the developed world or the developing world. |
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TransplantsThis activity provides students with upper intermediate vocabulary for parts of the body such as blood, liver, lungs etc. and provides opportunity for debate on an interesting subject that is frequently in the news, as well as giving students the opportunity to express their views on a little-known experiment that took place 40 years ago. |
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The Turing TestAlan Turing proposed a test inspired by a party game known as the 'Imitation Game', in which a man and a woman go into separate rooms, and guests try to tell them apart by writing a series of questions and reading the typewritten answers the man and the woman send back. |
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Alien abductionThis role-play can be used with students who are studying about aliens (a common course-book topic), for the practice and revision of narrative tenses or as a lead in to writing newspaper stories. |
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Classroom issuesLearners have a lot of ideas about how they should learn a language and it is important to encourage them to discuss these and to communicate them to the teacher. |
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'The Washing Line' - teaching clothes vocabularyThis is a good vocabulary activity to use with younger learners. |
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'Wall dictionary'This is a good way to help kids learn and review their vocabulary. It really helps them with the alphabet and spelling. |
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A business letterIn this activity, learners attempt to re-write an inappropriately informal business letter in a more appropriate, formal style. |
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A class magazineClass projects can be an excellent way to focus the whole class and get them working together towards a common goal. |
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A class surveyDoing surveys can be a useful way of getting your students to interact, produce question forms and collect and analyse real information. |
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Sally Trowbridge
Spain
Hi
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saika123
Kazakhstan
i really liked the content
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butanding08
Libya
This is really good...I'm not an English Teacher, I'm a Nurse-Educator in Libya, a Professor in...
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