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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      Kaleidescope - Belfast

      Kaleidescope is a project that mixes video and original pieces of writing from well-known authors in three capital cities – Belfast, Cardiff and Edinburgh. The package consists of a piece of poetry or prose, which looks at the city from an insider’s point of view. A simple movie accompanies the writing to help the language learner understand lexical or cultural items that require explanation.

      Each pack includes teacher’s notes with a suggested procedure and classroom worksheets for students. These resources include pre-viewing and follow-up tasks.

      The focus of this pack is Belfast. It includes an original piece of writing by Eunice Yeates called Belfast.

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      Kaleidescope - Cardiff

      Kaleidescope is a project that mixes video and original pieces of writing from well-known authors in three capital cities – Belfast, Cardiff and Edinburgh. The package consists of a piece of poetry or prose, which looks at the city from an insider’s point of view. A simple movie accompanies the writing to help the language learner understand lexical or cultural items that require explanation.

      Each pack includes teacher’s notes with a suggested procedure and classroom worksheets for students. These resources include pre-viewing and follow-up tasks.

      The focus of this pack is Cardiff. It includes an original poem by Menna Elfyn called Caerdyyd

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      Kaleidescope - Edinburgh

      Kaleidescope is a project that mixes video and original pieces of writing from well-known authors in three capital cities – Belfast, Cardiff and Edinburgh. The package consists of a piece of poetry or prose, which looks at the city from an insider’s point of view. A simple movie accompanies the writing to help the language learner understand lexical or cultural items that require explanation.

      Each pack includes teacher’s notes with a suggested procedure and classroom worksheets for students. These resources include pre-viewing and follow-up tasks.

      The focus of this pack is Edinburgh. It includes an original piece of writing by the author Ron Butlin and is called The Magicians of Edinburgh

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      Motivating speaking activities for lower levels

      These activities are all designed to motivate lower level learners to speak in pairs or small groups.

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      Megabridges

      This jigsaw-viewing activity is based on two video clips from National Geographic’s Mega-structures series
         

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      Kaleidescope - Edinburgh

      Kaleidescope is a project that mixes video and original pieces of writing from well-known authors in three capital cities – Belfast, Cardiff and Edinburgh. The package consists of a piece of poetry or prose, which looks at the city from an insider’s point of view. A simple movie accompanies the writing to help the language learner understand lexical or cultural items that require explanation.

      Each pack includes teacher’s notes with a suggested procedure and classroom worksheets for students. These resources include pre-viewing and follow-up tasks.

      The focus of this pack is Edinburgh. It includes an original piece of writing by the author Ron Butlin and is called The Magicians of Edinburgh

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      Alien abduction

      This 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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      Managing Teenagers

      I was sorry to hear that many people seem to be having problems with teenagers during their English teaching. I taught English to a group of 12-18 year olds in Spain during a summer school and was lucky enough to have

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      The Turing Test

      Alan 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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      Kaleidescope - Belfast

      Kaleidescope is a project that mixes video and original pieces of writing from well-known authors in three capital cities – Belfast, Cardiff and Edinburgh. The package consists of a piece of poetry or prose, which looks at the city from an insider’s point of view. A simple movie accompanies the writing to help the language learner understand lexical or cultural items that require explanation.

      Each pack includes teacher’s notes with a suggested procedure and classroom worksheets for students. These resources include pre-viewing and follow-up tasks.

      The focus of this pack is Belfast. It includes an original piece of writing by Eunice Yeates called Belfast.

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      'The Washing Line' - teaching clothes vocabulary

      This 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 letter

      In this activity, learners attempt to re-write an inappropriately informal business letter in a more appropriate, formal style.

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      A class magazine

      Class 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 survey

      Doing 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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      nadoura's picture

      ya allah
      Algeria

      I thank you so much for this idea .I personnaly going to try it with my pupils .


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      3rohana
      Sri Lanka

       It's really interseting. The learners can read, edit, add and write to improve their...
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      English Consultory
      Mexico

      I want to thank you for providing us with these type of tool which have prooved to be both,...
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