A visual comprehension exercise, done in the middle of a lesson plan, that gets the students talking about what they saw. Body language plays a very important role in this activity and really makes your students reflect on how important it is when com ...
A visual comprehension exercise, done in the middle of a lesson plan, that gets the students talking about what they saw. Body language plays a very important role in this activity and really makes your students reflect on how important it is when com ...
This is a pairwork using "want to" and "would like to". Students imagine themselves in Dublin City. One student is a tourist guide advising nice places to visit and the other one is a tourist looking for specific places. You can also revise ...
At the Information Office is an activity inspired by one of the functional language lessons of Challenges 2 (Pearson coursebook). The procedure I used was the following: 1. Give your ss a chance to fill in the gaps (first 10 slides). 2. Pair the ss up ...
Listening comprehension exercise (taken from: http://www.passporttoenglish.com/Beginning-English/Lesson7/Listening.html and http://www.esl-lab.com/pie1/pierd1.htm) plus phrases to be completed with one word; to be used either to prepare or to roun ...
These are 45 printable and editable Hedbanz(R) cards. This game provides a lot of fun while allowing kids to practise question forms.For this game you will also need headbands, some chips and probably a timer. Hedbanz rules (or go here: http://me ...
A lesson plan for a speaking club meeting at the end of which students will make a presentation of their project and film an advertising campaign video. The topic of the project is how to improve life in a city. The topic for video - advertising ...
This class involves reading, writing and speaking skills. Students are supposed to read the website page that shows options of travel packages, choose the ones they consider interesting and build an itinerary (considering the amount of money they have).
This worksheet is a fun role-play to practice the passive voice (either past simple passive or present perfect passive). Students are to play a role of an infuriated parent, boss or teacher and a delinquent child, who has to think of excuses.&nbs ...
This is a sheet of 5 role plays dealing with interesting scenarios one might encounter when dealing with a smoker or being a smoker. While the sheet gives some details about the character to be played, it works best if the students are creative. I fin ...
This is a script based on the famous fable "The Turtle and the Hare". It's fun to make your students perform a play. Also it gives them a morale for life: work hard for our goals. You can ask your students to make masks and costumes in order to perfor ...
This is a dialogue and role play exercise. The dialogue sets the pattern of talking in English, and leads gently into the role play exercises. The whole thing took 1 hour for my Chinese middle school pre-int (almost intermediate) students. As a refere ...
This power-point presentation can be used for teaching and modeling how to order food in the class. It contains some pictures and names of different food you can ask your students to change the conversation by using different food. Divide them into gr ...
It will help you to improve students' speaking skills. You will know how to prepare for a job interview, what job you want to do, how to find a job, what your dream job is, what different types of companies you can work for, a part -time job. You can ...
This is a fairly simple telco lesson, mainly aimed at older teenagers and young adults. Students form groups of 3 to 5, and create a mini company, then devise and sell mobile phone plans (=cell phone plans) to other students. I've done this lesson wit ...
This simple role-play has worked like magic with every class I've tried it with. I've tried to provide enough direction and suggestions that students take an interest in the activity and don't take forever deciding what to talk about, and that student ...
Students create a mini company, and design and sell apps. The "design" aspect is simple, and consists of inventing a name for the app, and describing what it does. A simple, whole class mingling game/activity for teenagers and above, levels pre-i ...
This exercise was designed as extra practice when I taught verb to be in the past. You can also use to review the same verb. I tried to keep the vocaulary very simple, but if you think some words will be difficult, it's a good idea to pre-teach the vo ...
Students design a reality show, and try to convince their peers to watch it. A whole class mingling activity for levels pre-intermediate and up. At least 6 students, preferably 10 to 50, ages roughly 12 and up. It went down well with my intermediate a ...
This worksheet provides you with three different role-plays for different scenarios. I have a small class that ranges from 3-5 students, so I have them practice all the scenarios. There's no prep-work involved, other than showing them how to do a scen ...
This is a sequence about tourism in Paris for Halloween. Students describe the scary attraction, make a brochure and a Halloween mask! They are tourist guides. They can use the indicative, imperative moods and "will" or "be going to" for a more advanc ...