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Speaking Activity: Making Driving Safer
After a tragic crash in which a young driver from our region was killed, I decided to create a lesson about how driving can be made safer. In groups of 3 or 4, students are given 20 safer-driving suggestions, and their job is to speak English with their partners and rank them from best to worst. This lesson is ideal for students who are just starti...
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type:
Downloads: 7
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Who Are You and What Do You Know? #1 - Death at the Circus
I had been searching for a long time for some simple to set up yet challenging "Whodunit"-type conversation puzzles, and finally came up with an idea of how to do them myself, by basing them on lateral-thinking problems. They�ve been really popular with my teenage conversation classes. This, Death at the Circus, is the first in a series. There are ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 7
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Restaurant Mixed-Up Conversation
This is a mixed-up conversation to accompany a role play between a waiter and customers in a restaurant. Cut the slips, mix them up, and hand one or more to each student (there are 14 slips). Set up a table in the center of the room for students to arrange them into the proper order. When they�re done, have students read it out loud. This becomes t...
Level: elementary
Age: 10-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 13
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Instant Conversation #1 - Alien Cocktail Party
The is the first in a series of "Mad Lib"-type role plays I call Instant Conversations. In it, the students write the answers to simple questions, using vocabulary they�ve recently learned - not realizing they�re creating something for the upcoming role play.
In Alien Cocktail Party, the students are creating alien characters for themselves, whi...
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 10
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Talk and Trade - Restaurant Complaints
As with �Talk and Trade: Telephone,� these cards might be considered �Micro Role Plays�- they take very little time to set up, and every student ends up doing several of them. In this one, students make various complaints to their waiter or waitress in a restaurant.
Full class mingle. Time: 10-15 minutes
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 12
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