Activities
In this section you will find a wide range of classroom activities sent in by contributors around the world. Click the links below to select activities under each topic area.
Gerunds and infinitives: Farmer Jones and his wife  
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This activity looks at the problem of whether verbs are followed by the gerund or infinitive.

Average: 4 (5 votes)
Strange contraptions  
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This is a group-work speaking activity for students who are upper-intermediate or above. It takes about an hour.
Average: 3.3 (47 votes)
Phonemic chart  

Help your students hear the sounds of English by clicking on the symbols of this pronunciation chart - you can now install it on your own PC or Mac computer

Average: 3.4 (110 votes)
Energy and renewable resources  
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This activity is about energy and renewable resources. It builds awareness of different energy solutions which will be necessary in the future and is aimed at learners aged 10 years and up.

Average: 3.9 (14 votes)
Water  
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This activity is about the uses of water. It looks at how some of us do things with water every day, while some people in some parts of the world are not able to do them.

Average: 3.2 (26 votes)
Sitcom activity: review writing  
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This latest activity in this series is suitable for intermediate + level students.

Average: 3.7 (26 votes)
Events that changed history  
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This activity is designed to be used as a consolidation exercise for the third conditional.

Average: 3.8 (33 votes)
Sitcom activity: listening and guessing  
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This activity is suitable for pre-intermediate students and above.

Average: 3.3 (78 votes)
The longest time  
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This is a speaking exercise for pre-intermediate level learners and above. It practises the use of the ‘present perfect' to talk about something (an activity or state) that starts in the past and continues now. It could be used to introduce this area or to provide further general practice later.

Average: 3.2 (60 votes)
Three activities for speaking tests  
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These activities are designed to provide practice for learners preparing for the IELTS, TOEFL and FCE tests.

Average: 3.6 (37 votes)
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