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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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Writing poems with ‘Spark’“Writing poems? No, this wouldn’t work with my students!” If you feel skeptical about getting your students to try their hand at composing poems or songs in class, try this activity. |
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Word Family FrameworkThe Word Family Framework (WFF) places 22,000 words on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). |
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Playing with lexical cardsVery often students know the meaning of a word but don’t know how to use it correctly. This is often because they don’t know what words go with what other words, i.e. collocations. |
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Pairwork: tai chi classesThis is a simple pairwork activity that can be used with low level groups to provide practice in the present simple question form – What does he/she do on…?, days of the week, times and leisure act |
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Three of a kind?Use this activity to practice the use of comparatives and superlatives and to introduce more complex ways of comparison. |
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Discussion BingoI have an activity which I use with my intermediate / advanced students. It's called 'discussion bingo' and I use it to get students using set phrases. |
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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 challenges of being a migrantThis is a speaking and listening activity that involves students in thinking about the kinds of problems and challenges they might face as a migrant going to Belfast. |
Guided writing: Writing a story on the OHPThis activity can be used with intermediate and upper-intermediate students and practises fluency as well as story-writing skills. It offers free practice of narrative tenses and sequential linking words, |
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Doctors and patients - speaking activityThis lesson can take anything from half an hour to an hour and a half. Divide your class in half, half are doctors, half are patients. |
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A creative writing activity: A dark and stormy nightThis is an idea I learned when I first started teaching and still use to this day. The main focus of the activity is on developing writing skills, but it's also good for developing listening and reading skills and also for practising past tenses and descriptive vocabulary. |
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A Perfect storyThe present perfect is a tense that many students have problems with. Most course books provide only controlled grammar sentences where students choose the correct tense. |
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A Reading Task and Role PlayHere is an activity to challenge the students' reading skills at intermediate level and give them controlled speaking practice in a role play. The learners have to put a jumbled conversation into the correct order and can then act it out in pairs. The conversation takes place in a Travel Agent's. |
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A shopping role playThis activity gives learners at an intermediate level and above the opportunity to use interactional language in a role-play situation |
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Accidents anecdotesIn this speaking activity students exchange authentic personal anecdotes. |
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Paul Braddock
Spain
Thanks for letting us know about the student worksheets - the correct worksheet should now be...
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Sally Trowbridge
Spain
Thanks! We'll fix this as soon as possible.
Sally
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Indielizabeth
Vietnam
I've had the same trouble - the students' worksheet link is the same as the teacher's notes....
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