This 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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Response tasks are designed to give students the chance to express themselves creatively and openly, not for comprehension checking.

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This is one of the quickest ways I know of teaching a tale and boosting students’ confidence in themselves as storytellers.

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This YouTube activity really gets your students thinking creatively. A short film is played for the students, but they can’t see the scene, they can only hear it. Students guess what happens in the scene before they get to view it to check their deductions.

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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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In this YouTube-based activity, students watch a scene from an animated film and observe the actions performed by characters. The activity is suitable for low level students (primary school) since the focus here is not on listening.

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This YouTube activity is quite simple and can be used with a variety of YouTube videos especially those from Mr. Bean. This clip is a great introduction to the theme of travel and can help students practise prediction e.g. ‘I think he’ll pack his teddy bear’ or ‘ He’s definitely going to forget his suitcase’.

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In this activity students will practice forming questions and explore opinions regarding migration. They will create their own questionnaire and survey classmates, friends and family.

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This activity is based around a website that tells the true stories of some people who migrated to Australia many years ago.

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