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The Mystery of Boscombe Valley
This worksheet will be good when reading Sherlock Holmes detective stories. The learning will be more interesting when using drama and roleplays. First, you should read with students "The Mystery of...
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Frozen Easy Role Play
This is a role play 3-4-5- graders love to do. They dress up like prince and princess, they use swords and pixie dust. They can practise the modal can, must, present progressive and present simple....
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Movie Worksheet: Jobs - Presenting a Job
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...
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Let's Visit Dublin!
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...
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At the Information Desk
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...
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At the Restaurant - Listening Exercise and Phrases
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...
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Hedbanz Cards
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...
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Speaking Club Lesson Plan
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...
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3 Days in Toronto: Suggested Itineraries
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...
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Passive Role-play: Blame It on Your Dog
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...
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Smoking Role-Plays
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...
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The Turtle and the Hare (Script)
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...
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Dialogue and Role Play Exercise (Friend Wants to Borrow Money)
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...
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Ordering Food
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...
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Jobs
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...
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Telco Game/Mingling Activity
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...
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Family Role-play
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...
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Designing Apps Game/ Mingling Activity
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...
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Murder Story for Beginners
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...
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Designing A Reality Show (Game/ Mingling Activity)
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...
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Wrong Product; Management; Restaurant Roleplays
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...
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Paris Halloween Tour
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...
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Meeting New People
'Meeting New People' has 5 practices that ESL students can enjoy and learn with ease. This has all reading, listening, writing and speaking aspects that can benefit the overall English language...
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Directions: Asking and Giving
This PowerPoint Presentation is for the basic understanding of asking and giving directions. It includes basic vocabulary, prepositions of directions, conversations and common usages. There are also a...
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Tabloid Magazine Activity Lesson
This is a reasonably simple lesson to run, which my students seem to enjoy. Students work for a tabloid magazine, which is suffering from poor sales, because it is very boring. They must come up with...
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Speaking Tasks for Intermediate Speaking Tests
This ppt consists of diverse tasks for practising speaking (e.g. picture descriptions, role plays and a mock debate). It can be used for making B2 (or upper-intermediate) level learners speak. The...
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In a Snack Bar (Roleplay)
This worksheet is suitable for the roleplay. It contains a snack-bar menu and some dialogues which serve as an example. There are also some fill-in-the-blank texts. Besides the worksheet is useful for...
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United Nations Game (From Graham Dixon's Article)
Based on Graham Dixons article, http://busyteacher.org/22185-united-nations-fantastic-esl-negotiation.html, this is a summary of the relevant information, and a set of event cards for use with the...
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Survival Discussion Activity (Plane Crash in Canada)
A small group discussion activity that I found on the internet, used in army training for teaching survival. Contains a scenario (plane crash in Canada) and a list of 12 items. The job is to rank the...
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The Tale of the Three Brothers by J.K. Rowling
This is a worksheet about the "Tale of the three brothers" by J.K. Rowling. Page 1 includes the first part of the tale, a vocabulary exercise and a writing activity. Page 2 includes the rest of the...
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Alien Cultures Game
Based on Susan Verner's article, http://busyteacher.org/17951-how-to-help-esl-students-understand-each-other.html, this is just my approach to the alien cultures game. It is probably my best lesson....
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Face to Face Game
This worksheet provides nine role play cards. They contain information related to work and study, routine, family and hobbies. Students can simply ask each other questions and collect information, or...
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Movie Worksheet: Brexit
After the 23rd of June, I thought about discussing the arguments which led to the referendum result. I've made 2 classes, one for intermediate students and another for upper intermediate/advanced....
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Impromptu Speaking in the Classroom: What Would You Do?
Students will be able to develop fluent communication strategies, improve speaking skills, discuss and expose their opinions about controversial issues. Each student will raffle a card that contains a...
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Curious
This is a question-based activity where a student will pick up a card and talk about it with his/her classmates having the opportunity to develop a conversation and be creative. This document contains...
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The Perks of Advertising
This is a speaking activity. Students must be able to think on their feet in order to sell their products to the "buyers". The idea is to use odd products that wouldn't be easily bought to stimulate...
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Game, Debates
Give each students two cards, agree & disagree. Read aloud a controversial statement, and have each students hold up his/her paper stating whether they agree or disagree. Choose one student from...
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Helping People- Charity Events
This worksheet contains four stories, students must choose one story and decide who of the four people they are going to help and then decide how they are going to help them to organize a charity...
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Drama World Talent
This drama is about a television talent show called World Talent, where contestants from around the world compete to see who is the most talented performer. Each week the contestants perform in front...
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Dialogue and Role Play Exercise (Two Siblings Fight Over a Car)
This is a dialogue and role play exercise. Two students fight over the car, but then, one of them goes out, and something unexpected happens. The dialogue sets the pattern of talking in English, and...
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Emergency Services Role Play Cards
These role play cards are designed for elementary to pre-intermediate learners. There are 6 different scenarios split between the police, ambulance and fire service. Students work in pairs to prepare...
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Dialogue Vocabulary Sentence Starters and Responses
These phrases are useful while organising pair work during the lessons of pre-intermediate students. They can be displayed on the poster in the classroom or printed out and your students will be able...
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How To Speak To Be Understood - A Funny Conversation Activity
An amusing idea of how to practice intonation and communication. The students are asked to put the missing punctuation marks, make dialogues according to some specific clues, use their imagination and...
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Role Plays For ESL Classes
This sample worksheet contains six role playing situations from the book “ESL role plays for English teachers: 40 great role plays for ESL classes.” Each role plays presents some useful vocabulary,...
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The Square Circle - Simple Questions Activity
P4C lesson offering topics for discussion.This can be used as a P4C lesson where the students are in a circle and choose a random sticky note off the floor. The sticky notes have prompts written on...
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Social English Conversations Speaking Cards
The worksheet contains three types of excersices focusing on Social English conversations. I.Chain conversations - Give each of your students a social topic to talk about and let pupils to prepare a...
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Everyday Instructions – How do I ask?
This A5 booklet for adult beginners and elementary students is about helping to make appointments or phone emergency numbers. Instructional, it can be used for role-playing, with students pairing...
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Workshop Lesson: Restaurants And Menus
In this lesson, students review vocabulary and grammar at A2 level related to the topic of restaurants and menus. Classroom desks are arranged into six "learning islands" where the students, divided...
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Solving problems at a business meeting
Print the worksheets for pupils to work in pairs. One student reads the problem the second tries to find a solution. Students can take turns to discuss the problems in the worksheet and then come up...
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Joe is getting married! from the movie: When Harry met Sally
This lesson is designed for two sessions of one hour each. It features two scenes from the film "When Harry Met Sally." It includes grammar (a review of defining and non-defining relative pronouns),...
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