This activity is a jigsaw reading based on a text by the UK Natural History Museum, available here.

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This is a pair-work reading, (speaking) and grammar-based activity for elementary students. It mainly practises question formation, reading comprehension and the ability to identify and correct factual mistakes in a text.

Age: Teenage/adult

Level: A2+

Timing: about 40 mins

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This activity looks at the problem of whether verbs are followed by the gerund or infinitive.

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Here 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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This is a simple reading task on the theme of Easter in the UK. It helps students learn about how this time is celebrated in the UK and reflect on special occasions in their own culture.

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Newspapers are a useful tool in the ELT classroom for improving reading skills and enhancing students' knowledge of current affairs.

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Here are two text quickies that I like to use with my learners to prepare them for reading or to follow up on a text they have read.

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These activities describe different ways you and your students can read text aloud in order to develop your students' feeling for the music of the language.

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This is an integrated reading and speaking activity for intermediate (or higher) level students. They make decisions in pairs or groups with the aim of spending one million euros.

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These activities are only available as a download because they are fairly long and provide full reading texts. They are related to the article - Lexical Approach 1 - - What does the lexical approach look like?

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