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....
View ArticleMovie 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...
View ArticleLet'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...
View ArticleAt 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...
View ArticleAt 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...
View ArticleHedbanz 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...
View ArticleSpeaking 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...
View Article3 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...
View ArticlePassive 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...
View ArticleSmoking 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleDialogue 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...
View ArticleOrdering 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...
View ArticleJobs
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...
View ArticleTelco 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...
View ArticleFamily 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...
View ArticleDesigning 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...
View ArticleMurder 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...
View ArticleDesigning 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...
View ArticleWrong 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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