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Getting to know you
A pair work activity useful for breaking the ice in a first lesson.
Level: elementary
Age: 12-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 5
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Running dictation
This running dictation will keep students concentrated for a while! Put students in groups of about 4 and stick the texts up on the walls. Each team will appoint a writer and a runner but after every completed paragraph they must change roles. Try to make sure that each team run the same distance to get to their text and that they don�t cheat! ...
Level: elementary
Age: 12-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 22
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First lesson-getting to know you, the student , and also the teacher
I have used this for the first lesson of groups of varying age and level. Bring in some objects which describe you, your passport, drving licence, degree certificate, photo album,etc and allow the students to use this material to discover about you and complete the worksheet. Obviously you will need to adapt the �About Me�worksheet to apply to yo...
Level: elementary
Age: 11-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 27
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Shopping role play
Pre-teach shopping dialogues and elicit the vocab for each shop. Set up a shopping street in the classroom, label each table as a shop and ask for volunteers to be the shop assistants (it works well with two people per shop). The rest of the class are the shoppers and are given a shopping list. Change roles once you feel that they have had enoug...
Level: elementary
Age: 10-14
Type: others
Downloads: 9
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Likes and dislikes
Learners have to complete the worksheet by answering the �Do you like..?� questions with the short form, �yes, I do� or �no , I don�t�.
Level: elementary
Age: 6-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 24
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Present simple board game
A present simple board game useful for general revision or speaking exam revision. Use a dice with numbers 1-3 only so they don�t get through it so quickly.
Level: elementary
Age: 10-14
Type: others
Downloads: 10
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Find your family (class mingle)
This activity really gets the class excited as they receive a new identity in a new family. They must mingle and ask simple questions, which you can drill beforehand, to discover which of their classmates are in their �new�family. You can distribute the families according to the class size and also to gender balance, and of course you can create ...
Level: elementary
Age: 9-14
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6
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Advanced Conversation-choose a treat
Cut out the picture and the brief guide of the treat and put it seperately from the detailed info below it. Each student picks a treat and then they take the detailed info of their partner�s treat and exchange info using the prompts on the final worksheet. Report back to the class after.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: others
Downloads: 6
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Eurojoke (stereotypes)
Before showing students the completed text write up the text, with blanks, and invite students to make their own decisions. It can be a good lead-in to further discussion on stereotyping.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: others
Downloads: 26
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Blankety-blank word game
Fun game to use in class based on the old TV gameshow �Blankety-Blank (remember?!) Anyway, you can have two teams, each with an appointed �leader� who will change every 2 or 3 turns. Read out a sentence saying "blank" where the blank appears. Without conferring students write down their word(s) on their scrap of paper. A point is scored each tim...
Level: elementary
Age: 12-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 7
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