Role Play - Broken Mobile
This role play provides the basic framework for the conversation while leaving the details up to the students. The class questions section gives the students a target. I have students answer the...
View ArticleFalse Advertising
The framework for the task is given but the details are up to the students. The class questions section gives students a target to build their role-play around. I have students answer the questions...
View ArticleRole Play- Strange Illness
Students will play the role of a parent and child. The child has to describe an illness and its symptoms to avoid going to school, and the parent has to try to catch the child lying. There is a...
View ArticlePersuasion and Dissuasion
This activity is suitable to intermediate and advanced students in practicing how to persuade and/ or dissuade the other person. It is better done as a role playing activity. This will motivate...
View ArticleMovie Worksheet: Public Speaking
A worksheet teachers can use as a listening for intermediate students with glossary in Spanish. There are eight questions for students to answer and a final question that can be used as a debate in...
View ArticleSong Worksheet: Dreaming with a Broken Heart by John Mayer
This is a 2-activity worksheet based on John Mayer´s record "Dreaming with a broken heart". Elementary students will do just fine with it as long as they are familiar with basic verb tenses (will...
View ArticleAlice in Wonderland Roleplay
This is a roleplay about the classical story for kids Alice in Wonderland. It was made based on the Walt Disney movie using the main characters of the film. It can be represented for an end of...
View ArticleJob Adverts (Fake) and Interview Questions
The worksheet includes 7 different job adverts and two sets of job interview questions to help provide students with a focus and springboard for "Job Interview" practice. I used the materials in my...
View ArticleAt a Party: Meet New People (Role Play Cards)
I've designed these 18 role cards for a small group of adults who need to review basic introductions. Each card gives the student a role freely based on a celebrity. Then I tell them they all meet at...
View ArticleHow about Thai Food?- Funny Speaking about Food
This is a simple but funny activity I use with my intermediate students, but it can be adapted to almost all levels. There are 5 different prompts with some information about the character's likes...
View ArticleAssertive Communication - Saying 'No' Assertively
This hand-out is aimed to teach teenagers as well as adult learners how to communicate assertively in day to day situations. It contains explanations for assertive, aggressive and passive behaviours...
View ArticleZodiac Class
Activity used for teaching or reviewing personal characteristics, based on the star signs. Teacher makes a copy of the exercise for each student and tells them that they have to read the person...
View ArticleIt's Movie Time
This worksheet is a kind of speaking practice. Provided for teenagers, especially the first level of secondary school students. It's designed with some pictures in order to give a stimulus for the...
View ArticleIn a Snack Bar - Roleplay
This worksheet contains 2 exercises and a roleplaying game. It´s made for beginners, but could be also a good practice for elementary students. In the first exercise students review the prices (Pound,...
View ArticlePlans for B-day Party (Future Simple)
A worksheet is dedicated to future simple usage. There you can find a dialogue about planning a birthday party, all sentences with future simple are highlited. It can help students to understand in...
View ArticleEveryday Responses
This is a worksheet I wrote to use with an adult Business English student. It is appropriate for any level from pre-intermediate upwards. It aims to teach the student how to react to normal,...
View ArticleTreasure Hunt: Car Problems (Flashcards)
Here are flashcards for a treasure hunt that I created: the goal is to make your students speak English and interact, but also have a good time together. The instructions come in another post....
View ArticleTreasure Hunt: Car Problems 2
Here are the guidelines to my previous worksheet (the flashcards). They're the rules to this treasure hunt, and they describe how the game should be played. Each character has a very precise path to...
View ArticleInformation Gap Task 3/4: Job Opportunities
The information gap tasks consists of two versions, one version is a collection of advertisements on jobs (6 jobs) and another version is an email, followed by information transfer, sentence...
View ArticleThe 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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