Classroom 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 activites under each topic area.
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 (41 votes)
Grass skirts revision race  

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

Average: 3.5 (22 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: 2.3 (4 votes)
Revision activities  

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

Average: 3 (1 vote)
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: 2.3 (3 votes)
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.

Class secrets for modals for possibility  

This is a speaking exercise for modal verbs used to express possibility, for intermediate / upper intermediate classes.

Average: 4.3 (3 votes)
The last time  

This is a speaking exercise for pre- intermediate level learners and above. It revises time references and past simple.

Example: ' When was the last time you were really happy?' - 'Two weeks ago - it was my birthday'.

Why bother?  

This is a speaking exercise to practise clauses and infinitive of purpose:

Alien abduction  

This role-play can be used with students who are studying about aliens (a common course book topic), for the practice and revision of narrative tenses or as a lead in to writing newspaper stories.

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