Revision chocolate bars  


This is a version of the popular game Battleships. In this version, instead of blowing up battleships, teams have to find hidden 'chocolate bars'. I usually do this on the whiteboard.

Average: 3.6 (30 votes)
Grass skirts revision race  

This activity gets the students motivated with a competitive revision race.

Average: 3.6 (18 votes)
Regrets  

This is a speaking exercise for intermediate+ learners which provides them with an opportunity to review and practise the 'should have' structure for expressing regrets.

Average: 2.7 (3 votes)
Revision activities  

On these pages you will find ideas for classroom activities to help your students with revision.

Fun revision quiz  

This activity is based on the format of most of the quiz shows currently shown on television. I have tried it with different ages and levels and it has proved to be a fun and challenging way of doing revision.

Average: 2.6 (5 votes)
Chalk and cheese  

This activity looks at ways of making comparative forms by asking learners to compare things that are usually thought of as opposites.

Average: 1 (1 vote)
Remember the last class - Revision at the beginning of a lesson  

This is a simple way to start the lesson with revision that uses the board.

I often start off a lesson with a class by simply saying at the beginning of the class 'What do you remember

Average: 1.5 (2 votes)
Slap the board - A vocabulary revision activity  

Slap the board is an energetic vocabulary activity - it can be used for revision, presentation and testing - which involves students running to and hitting the board.

Getting to know you question tags  

This is a communicative exercise to practise using question tags with rising intonation when you are not sure that your ideas are right.

Comparatives and superlatives through pictures  

A short but fun way to revise comparatives and superlatives is to give students a blank piece of paper and ask them to draw an easy to draw object, such as a star, a tree, a flower or a house on it.

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