In this speaking activity students think about and discuss a city they would like to live in for a year. The activity is based on themes from the British Council OPENCities project

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On this page you will find lots of ideas for classroom activities to help your students with revision.

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The Biography section of portfolios is a documentation of the learners' personal language learning history and can include, for example, a short narrative about the summer camp they attended and for which they may include a certificate of attendance in the passport section.

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This is a listening activity aimed at intermediate level adult and young adult students.

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I use this activity as practice for using narrative tenses, particularly past simple and progressive/continuous with pre-intermediate students.

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Introduction
This activity is based on the real story of Merhan Karimi Nasseri, who found himself unable to leave Charles de Gaulle airport in France, but became a popular subject for TV and newspaper interviews. It is a pair-work speaking, listening, reading and writing exercise for students who are at a good intermediate level or above. Time: at least an hour.    

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This a controlled writing activity which focuses on using the past continuous verb form to talk about events in the past.

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