Teaching resources

This game practises adjectives. You need a ball, or alternatively a screwed up piece of paper will work fine.

This is a lesson designed to help learners understand and remember opposite adjectives. Many of the techniques used here could be used for teaching other words or adjectives too.

This is a great game for reviewing vocabulary in your classes. You can play as a class or in teams.

This activity promotes recognition of the past continuous followed by practice. It utilises a well-known lateral thinking story.

This activity practises ‘have you ever...? to talk about life experiences. It is student led in terms of the content and is satisfying as a result.

This is a simple speaking activity that can provide practice for describing personalities. The lesson is designed for adults but could also be used with older teenagers.

This activity promotes the use of the comparative forms. It is a fun guessing game that encourages creativity.

This is a simple listening activity that can be used with adults and secondary groups, and is based on LearnEnglish Elementary Podcasts.

In this activity learners try to predict the order of words in a jumbled sentence before listening for the answer.

With very young learners much of what they do in the classroom revolves around them. Before school they are often the centre of ‘their’ universe so starting school can sometimes be a bit of a shock.