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Ask a student, a volunteer hopefully, to leave the room. While that person is out of the room you and the rest of the class decide on something very unusual that could have happened while they were out of the room. A good example is two students get...
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Choose an area in the classroom (a corner, the teacher's desk ...) and place there several different objects (pens, erasers, books, etc.) at random and a small box or a bag that represents the basket. Decide with your students how many points they...
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Choose a short passage or dialogue and make several copies. Put the copies up around the walls of the classroom (or even the school building).
Put the students in pairs or small groups. The aim is for one of the students in each pair to walk (or...
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Choose a controversial statement. For example:- ‘Women are the best drivers.’‘Mobile phones should be banned from public spaces.’ ‘Homework should be optional.’‘Burgers are better than pizzas.’ Either dictate or write the statement on the board....
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Pick any children's nursery rhyme, dictate it to the class (comprehension) and ask them to read it back (reading, pronunciation, spelling).
Then help with the weird words that they had to guess at (perception of similar sounds and referral to their...
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It can be used to revise structures or to present them as part of an inductive approach. It also encourages learners to be creative. The activity would be suitable for an elementary to intermediate level. PreparationMake a copy of this worksheet for...
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It would be suitable for freer practice once the area has been introduced and practised in a more controlled form. Learners prepare a series of statements about another person in the class. They then confirm their ideas by asking this person using...
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There are a variety of forms in both past and present, making it suitable for a class who are revising these structures. In addition, the exercise could be used to introduce the various forms and tenses. In this case the learners would do the...
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Example: ' When was the last time you were really happy?' - 'Two weeks ago - it was my birthday'. Target language here is flexible and depends on the level of your learners and your aims. They can answer using a simple time reference + simple past,...
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The language used is:
to ...
in order to ...
so ...
so that ...
Worksheet A is for pre-intermediate students and worksheet B is for intermediate students. Worksheet A asks learners to use only the infinitives of purpose in the communicative...
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PreparationHalf the learners will need a copy of the Student A worksheet each, and half the learners a copy of the Student B worksheet each.Procedure
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The forms themselves are used in a highly controlled way, making it suitable for a class who have just been introduced to them.
The open questions that follow some of the gap-fill sentences provide freer practice and can generate a great deal of...
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They also have general speaking practice as the exercise inevitably generates discussion. PreparationBefore the class, prepare enough photocopies of the worksheet for each learner to have a copy. You can download a copy of the worksheet below....
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After my students have worked on three texts in the textbook and done various comprehension and grammar exercises, I use this activity to revise.
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Students themselves can provide the essential, defining information. Using pictures is great for these kinds of tasks so try and build up a stock for a variety of activities.
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An essential skill in communicating and keeping up a conversation is the ability to ask questions. Students sometimes get lots of chances to answer questions but here are some more ideas for how you can get them to make some questions themselves!...
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An essential skill in communicating and keeping up a conversation is the ability to ask questions. Students sometimes get lots of chances to answer questions but here are some ideas for how you can get them to make some questions themselves!
FAQs...
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Basically, the students use vocabulary items, or standard sentences, as money. The teacher is a shopkeeper, the students are the customers. The students buy objects that they need to complete a drawing or plan. In order to buy the object they need,...
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Take the letters from the game of Scrabble.
You can divide the class into groups, or make it an individual quiz.
Then, give around 15 letters to each group or student
Give each group eight minutes to try and make as many words as possible, but they...
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I have tried it with different ages and levels and it has proved to be a fun and challenging way of doing revision.
Prepare a set of questions on vocabulary areas, grammar points, verb patterns, etc. from recent lessons. The questions could go...
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I often start off a lesson with a class by simply saying at the beginning of the class What do you remember from the last English lesson? Now, perhaps that lesson was one or two days ago, perhaps it was last week, it may have been even two weeks ago...
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My students often claim that they can't hear the difference.
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The sets of cards should be made up of lots of rhyming pairs of words. For example:house, mousedie, crycook, bookwheat, sheetYou can download a set of pairs cards below.Procedure
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This materials-light activity needs little preparation and allows students to notice these problems. Procedure
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Symbols This activity focuses on some of the easier symbols and works towards the more difficult vowel sounds. It then helps students to record and remember them.
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I start with the seven vowel phonemes that the letters of the alphabet can be divided into. I encourage students to try and guess the sounds first.
I elicit a word that has the sound in it and write this above each phoneme to help students remember...
