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Find someone who....
An icebreaker activity for the first day of class, students must stand up and mill, asking the other students (or teachers!) the questions until they can fill each question with one name. They can repeat names, but cannot use their own. The first student who finished must call out "Finished!" at which point everyone sits back down, and as a class y...
Level: elementary
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 4
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Making a Dinner: some and any
Students have a list of food needed to prepare a big dinner. They must look at the picture of what they have, form questions asking if they have any and then write the short answer with some or any.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7
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Using E-mail to Write to PenPals
A great activity with a class of students is to connect them to another class of students more or less the same age in another country with English as a common language, set up pairs between the two classes, and have them write weekly emails back and forth. It forces them to use English in a way that will be understood by people from another cultur...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 11
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Erin Brockovich film movie activity
An activity for advanced students for viewing the entire film "Erin Brockovich," starring Julia Roberts. There is a beginning vocabulary and speculation section (using modal verbs)to do before starting the film. Then there are a series of questions for the entire duration of the movie. I suggest breaking the movie up into 5 or 6 parts so that you c...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 83
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Song: The White Stripes - We�re Going to be Friends, Future with Will and Going To
An activity for the use of the future tense with Will and Going To, the song by the White Stripes: We Are Going to be Friends. The title isn�t given on the worksheet because it�s the answer to some of the spaces. Students listen to the song multiple times and insert the correct verbs in the correct form. There are verbs with Going To, Will, and inf...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 65
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Katy Perry: Thinking of you
A great activity for middle/high-school students. The lyrics to the song "Thinking of you" by Katy Perry are broken up into chunks to be cut out and handed to the students. Make sure that they note that every part has a letter to identify them more easily, but they do NOT go in alphabetical order! Also have them take out parts A, H, and K, which ar...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 3
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English Yellow Pages scavenger hunt
A great real life activity. Students have a series of situations for which they need to find a telephone number of a store/service. They must think of what category to look under (for example #1: museums), and then go through the categories and listings to find the most applicable ones. This worksheet is built on the Naples section of the Italian E...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 0
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Tom�s Diner (Suzanne Vega) - present continuous (progressive)
Activity for the present continuous (present progressive) using the song by Suzanne Vega "Tom�s Diner." The first part students have a list of verbs used in the song and must write them in the gerund form. Then they listen to the song as often as necessary to fill in the blanks, which are all with some form of present continuous. At the end there a...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 10
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Future Tense with Will: song "you�ve got a friend" by Carole King
A listening activity for the Future Tense with Will. Students listen to the song and insert the correct answers (in order: I will be, I�ll come, I�ll be, you�ll hear, I will, they�ll hurt). You could have a discussion afterwards about why will is used instead of going to. Also good to do is discuss afterwards "ain�t," what it means and why it�s not...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7
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Britney Spears: Baby One More Time - Advanced Modals
The song "Baby One More Time" by Britney Spears for more advanced forms of modals (was supposed to, shouldn�t have, need, must, wouldn�t) and one answer with "tell," which can be used to explain the difference between say and tell.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 43
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