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Select two speakers, one blue and the other black. The speakers move through the list alphabetically. They throw a dice for each letter and then speak the line that corresponds with the number. After they finish, another couple start. When everyone has finished, compare how different the conversation was in content but how similar in context.
Level: Pre-intermediate (A2)
Student Type: adult, high school, business/professional Grammar: Interrogatives Vocabulary: Restaurant 3 likes 153 downloads 
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This a fun way to do a reading and debate. If you can get a white fluffy cat for them to stroke while being the villains, even better! Tell the students they are all members of an evil but secret organisation that runs all the big industries of the world called SECTUM. The main source of income for this organisation is petroleum but it controls the majority of all the world´s energy production and services. Cut out the students´ personality cards below and tell them to read them to themselves and then assume the character of the personality they have been given. Hand out the story about fuel from air and get them to read it in a group (doing the vocabulary exercise first). Then tell them that they are going to have a meeting to talk about what to do about this threat to their businesses. They must discuss what to do according to their characters´ personality traits.
Level: Upper-intermediate (B2)
Student Type: adult, business/professional Grammar: Modals Vocabulary: Environment 3 likes 135 downloads
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This is a timed conversation activity: There are two columns on the paper; one for sentences and one for conversation topics. Cut each section into strips and place both sections into separate envelopes entitled "sentences" and "topics." Students are divided into pairs and then one student takes a strip of paper from the "sentences" envelope while the other takes one from the "topics" envelope. The student with the topics paper then announces the topic they are going to talk about for the next three minutes. The student with the "sentences" strip of paper keeps their sentence secret but must introduce the sentence as naturally as possible into the conversation during the next three minutes. The rest of the students must try and guess which sentence the student had to introduce into the conversation. A good student will make the sentence appear to be a natural part of the conversation and therefore difficult for the others to detect. They don´t have to have the sentence perfect, word for word.
Level: Upper-intermediate (B2), Advanced (C1), Proficient (C2)
Student Type: adult, high school, business/professional Grammar: Vocabulary: 2 likes 78 downloads
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Practice activity for agreeing and disagreeing. You´ll need to teach the necessary vocabulary and set expressions first. How to use: Cut out the personality cards and give one to each student. Tell them that the card is their personality. Then hand out the budget sheet for urban regeneration and tell them it is a shopping list given to them from central governemt. Tell them to hold a council meeting and each must present their budget to the rest stating the reasons why (according to their personalities). They then vote on each other’s policies.
Level: Intermediate (B1), Upper-intermediate (B2), Advanced (C1), Proficient (C2)
Student Type: adult, business/professional Grammar: Vocabulary: 2 likes 52 downloads
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This is something that I modified from one of the activities we did in a summer camp. So, it isn't my idea. No idea who thought of it but we used it in three different camps. Whoever you are, thanks! This activity works pretty well.
1. Cut out the ingredients out. Divide the class into small groups of 3 to 5 people. 2. Give about 8 to 10 ingredients to each group and tell them they already have salt, pepper water and basic cooking oil. 3. Tell them to invent a recipe and write it out between them. 4. Go over the vocabulary bank with them first. 5. Once they finish, each group presents their recipe to the rest of the class.
Level: Pre-intermediate (A2), Intermediate (B1), Upper-intermediate (B2), Advanced (C1)
Student Type: adult, elementary school, high school, business/professional Grammar: Imperative Vocabulary: Food 10 likes 276 downloads
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This has a couple of uses. It can be a straight forward reading with a vocabulary word list linking exercise. It can also be a way of introducing a role-play that involves agreeing and disagreeing and the vocabulary used that can be practiced in a controlled manner. It can also be used to stimulate a debate on dangerous animals or animal welfare. The instructions are contained within the worksheet. Advanced groups only. Have fun!
Level: Upper-intermediate (B2), Advanced (C1)
Student Type: adult, high school, business/professional Grammar: Vocabulary: Environment 3 likes 157 downloads
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A little worksheet with a bingo game added as a way to try and get the students how the verb "get" is used in English. I've had quite a lot of success with this. The students often ask if there are any more. It's fun and it manages to communicate the idea well enough.
Level: Pre-intermediate (A2)
Student Type: adult, high school, business/professional Grammar: Adjectives Vocabulary: Idioms 6 likes 168 downloads
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A little worksheet with a bingo game added as a way to try and get the students how the verb "get" is used in English. I've had quite a lot of success with this. The students often ask if there are any more. It's fun and it manages to communicate the idea well enough.
Level: Pre-intermediate (A2)
Student Type: adult, high school, business/professional Grammar: Adjectives Vocabulary: Idioms 6 likes 99 downloads
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Tested this out and adults and children alike loved it!
This game can only be played with even numbers. If you have a group of odd numbers then you should join in the game to make up the numbers. Print out the cards and laminate. For a game of two players just give them a pack of 1 colour (yellow or red) of 27 cards each. For four, print out another set and divide again. For 6 or 8 or 10 etc. just repeat the process above. Players put their cards in front of them face down. Players take it in turns to place a card in the middle, word side up – without looking at it first. When the card lands in the centre of the table, all the players should say the word. If a card lands on top of a card that has the same pronunciation somebody must say “snap!” to win that round. After saying snap, the winner must say the pronunciation for both words correctly. The winner then takes all the cards in the centre and places them next to their pile. The winner of the game is the last person left with all the cards. By the way, mare and mayor are not American English heterographs .... I think.
Level: Elementary (A1), Pre-intermediate (A2), Intermediate (B1)
Student Type: adult, elementary school, high school Grammar: Phonetics Vocabulary: 3 likes 50 downloads
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This has a couple of uses. It can be a straight forward reading with a vocabulary word list linking exercise. It can also be a way of introducing a role-play that involves agreeing and disagreeing and the vocabulary used that can be practiced in a controlled manner. It can also be used to stimulate a debate on dangerous sports, health and safety and childcare. The instructions are contained within the worksheet. Advanced groups only. Have fun!
Level: Pre-intermediate (A2)
Student Type: adult, high school Grammar: Modals Vocabulary: Health 12 likes 531 downloads
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Use this as you see fit. I usually get them to try and guess the prefixes in teams. I then award points for the best sentence constructions.
Level: Pre-intermediate (A2)
Student Type: adult, high school Grammar: Adjectives Vocabulary: 4 likes 125 downloads
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This can be a reading exercise as well as a role-play exercise. The method is explained on the card. CVs and job adverts are on the worksheet and can be used to present and practice vocabulary related to job searches and job interviews.
Level: Pre-intermediate (A2), Intermediate (B1)
Student Type: adult, high school, business/professional Grammar: Adjectives Vocabulary: Ability 8 likes 363 downloads
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We sometimes have to test the local emergency switchboard operators and I have some of the older role-plays left over. So, here they are. Cut out the cards and divide them into “operator cards” and “casualty cards.” On a board make a mind map of the kinds of questions emergency switchboard operators and accident victims would ask each other. Give an operator card to one student and a casualty card to another. The student with the operator card is on the emergency switchboard and must answer a ringing phone. The student with the casualty card must provide and answer relevant questions while the operator must ask for the appropriate details and decide on a course of action while giving suitable advice. The rest of the students must then vote on whether or not the operator acted for the best. Tell the operators to start with the phrase, “999 emergency. Can I help you?” (911 for our cousins across the pond) Take notes of any structure, pronunciation, grammar and intonation problems and then address them when the exercise is over.
Level: Intermediate (B1)
Student Type: adult, high school Grammar: Questions Vocabulary: Health 13 likes 438 downloads
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Cut out the cards and divide them into “hotel cards” and “guest cards.”
On a board make a mind map of the kinds of questions guests and receptionists would ask each other. Give a guest card to one student and a hotel card to another. The student with the hotel card is the receptionist and must answer a ringing phone. The student with the guest card must ask relevant questions while the receptionist must answer the questions while asking for the appropriate details. Take notes of any structure, pronunciation, grammar and intonation problems and then address them when the exercise is over.
Level: Pre-intermediate (A2)
Student Type: adult, high school, business/professional Grammar: Questions Vocabulary: Travel 24 likes 1010 downloads
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Print out the pages on card and laminate them (they last longer). Cut them out.
Pre-teach the expressions that are used when contracting a utility service. Give a customer card to one student and a company card to the other. The customer then phones the company and they have a timed role-play of two minutes. Correct any mistakes after the role-play has been completed. You could also mix up the cards for role-plays about wrong numbers.
Level: Pre-intermediate (A2)
Student Type: adult, high school, business/professional Grammar: Questions Vocabulary: Home 4 likes 81 downloads
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Cut out the cards and divide them into “accommodation cards” and “tenant” cards.
On a board make a mind map of the kinds of questions tenants and landlords would ask each other. Give a tenant card to each student – if your class is big divide into smaller groups and give the same set of cards to each group. One student from the group picks an accommodation card and then interviews the rest of the group to find his/her most suitable tenant. The most suitable tenant is “Roger the Lodger:” In other words, the winner. When landlord and tenant have found each other, collect the cards and then hand them out once more and start the process again. Take notes of any structure, pronunciation, grammar and intonation problems and then address them when the exercise is over.
Level: Intermediate (B1)
Student Type: adult, high school, business/professional Grammar: Questions Vocabulary: Home 16 likes 176 downloads
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I´ve been using this for about 10 years now and it´s a pretty flexible little worksheet. I use it to accompany a chapter we have to do with renting flats and houses. I normally start by going through the Estate agent´s key on the second page and then move to the first page which is used as a reading (for correcting pronunciation etc.) I then field questions on the vocabulary from the students after the reading for anything they don´t understand. The students are then told to work together in groups to find accommodation for the clients. Always follow up by asking them plenty of questions on their decisions. This can also be followed up by a quick "on-the-phone" role play, whereby students take it in turns to be the clients phoning the people in the adverts about accommodation to find out more about them.
Level: Pre-intermediate (A2)
Student Type: adult, high school, business/professional Grammar: Vocabulary: Home 8 likes 184 downloads
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Cut up into cards. Give out one at a time to students (big classes can do the exercise in groups). The rest of the class take it in turns to ask questions of the student with the card to find out their job. Student may only answer "yes/no" if a beginner or "Yes, I do/am/it does etc" if a little more advanced. Set a limit of 20 questions. Can also be used for advanced groups as a warm-up activity.
Level: Elementary (A1)
Student Type: elementary school, high school Grammar: Questions Vocabulary: Jobs 10 likes 233 downloads
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I´ve been using this for years and it works very well with the students. This is the prettier, updated version but still works the same way. Go over the vocabulary with them from page one and then do the exercise on the next page. You can then use road maps and split the class into pairs and have them giving and asking for directions.
Level: Pre-intermediate (A2)
Student Type: adult Grammar: Imperative Vocabulary: Giving Directions 6 likes 200 downloads
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A small cloze exercise for advanced students complete with key and fully editable. Something I did a few years ago and it has been sitting on my PC doing nothing ever since. Not sure if some of the expressions are different the other side of the pond or not. You might need to check.
Level: Intermediate (B1)
Student Type: high school Grammar: Phrasal verbs Vocabulary: Idioms 9 likes 230 downloads
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