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.
Vocabulary activities  

Have you tried these practical activities to help students with vocabulary learning? There's something for all ages and levels.

Average: 3.2 (67 votes)
What's the question?  

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

Average: 3.2 (28 votes)
Theft in the hotel  

This activity is a role play that allows students to take control, decide how the story will develop, and use their imagination. It can be used with a range of levels as students drive the content, but they will have to think on their feet and use the language in real time as they can’t prepare for what is going to happen. 

Average: 3.7 (81 votes)
Same as the teacher?  

This activity is designed to be used as a vocabulary review or test of existing knowledge of the learners' vocabulary. It generates lots of words and is a lot of fun. The categories can be changed to suit the level and learner.

Average: 3.3 (138 votes)
Stop, go back dictation  
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This is a dictation activity which pushes students to make sense of the language they hear by writing it down as accurately as possible.

Average: 3.4 (253 votes)
Using Glogster for creating interactive online posters  

You can create attractive and colourful Glogster posters with your students on many different occasions: for celebrating festivals, for illustrating project work or for presenting a topic.

Average: 3.4 (23 votes)
Creating Vokis – online animated characters that speak  

Vokis are great for practising speaking skills with students. Creating an animated character and giving it a voice is real fun to do and breaks down the inhibitions that students often have when faced with recording themselves speaking in English.

Average: 4.3 (24 votes)
Discussing languages  

This is a discussion activity that you can use to find out about your students’ opinions of language learning and how important they think it is.

Average: 3.3 (90 votes)
Working with biographies  

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.

Average: 3.9 (26 votes)
It’s 12.00 o'clock!  

This is a drawing and speaking activity that is fun to use with primary classes to revise the present continuous form. It is easy to set up and requires no preparation or materials, except a board and a board pen.

Average: 3.5 (53 votes)
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