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Pairwork: What’s in the fridge?  

Introduction
This is a another simple pairwork activity that can be used with low level groups to provide practice in countable and uncountable nouns, in the question structure – How much … is there? /How many … are there? and the corresponding answers There is … / There are … and food vocabulary. The lesson is designed for adults but could also be used with older teenagers.

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Average: 4.1 (7 votes)
Noah's Ark in Space  

This is a small group, free discussion activity aimed at pre-intermediate students and above, in which students are asked to decide which animals should be selected to go aboard a space-craft in order to safeguard their survival. Time: About thirty minutes.

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Average: 3.6 (16 votes)
Inside lives  

This activity practices students’ listening and speaking skills.

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Average: 3 (1 vote)
Artists as immigrants  

This activity attempts to challenge some of the preconceptions that people often have about immigrants by looking at a group of artists that have emigrated and exploring some of the challenges they

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Average: 5 (1 vote)
Who is it?  

In this activity students listen to information about two people who emigrated to Dublin. They then have to create profiles of other immigrants based on the text from the listening.

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Average: 4.1 (8 votes)
What does migration bring?  

This is a listening and speaking activity for students based on the theme of migration. It should be suitable for adult or young adult intermediate level learners. Immigration can be a difficult and controversial topic to tackle and some students may have very strong opinions on this topic. The activity was based on themes from the OPENCities project www.opencities.eu

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Average: 3 (1 vote)
The challenges of being an migrant  

This 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.

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Supporting city openness  

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

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Average: 4 (1 vote)
Mingling: Terry’s trip  

Introduction
This is a simple mingling activity that can be used with low level groups to provide practice in the past simple, particularly the question form. The lesson is designed for adults but could also be used with teenagers.

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Average: 4.8 (5 votes)
To Catch A Thief: Past simple and past continuous practice.  

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

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Average: 3.4 (17 votes)
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