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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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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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Family Find Out Who
Type: Full-class mingle
Ability: Elementary
Time: 30 minutes
This is pretty self-explanatory. I usually start off by drawing my family tree, and it might be helpful to have the students do the same before beginning, as it�s not always easy to count off cousins and aunts and uncles off the top of your head.
Pass out the cards, one per studen...
Level: elementary
Age: 7-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 4
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Talk and Trade: Telephone
These cards might be considered �Micro Role Plays,� in that they take very little time to set up, and every student ends up doing several of them. In it, students pair up for short role plays of many different telephone situations. When they�re finished with one partner, they pair up with a different partner and continue with a new situation.
Wh...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 12
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Travel Agent Mixed-Up Conversation
This is a mixed-up conversation to accompany a role play between travel agents and customers, in which the customers try to book all-inclusive holidays. Cut the slips, mix them up, and hand one or more to each student (there are 21 slips). Set up a table in the center of the room for students to arrange them into the proper order. When they�re done...
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 29
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