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Christmas Friends: The One With the Holiday Armadillo
Just in time for Christmas! Discussion of Christmas and other December holidays, followed by a summary/detailed listening exercise. Students learn useful phrasal verbs and ultimately use them in a role-play. I usually spend an hour a day for a week on this kind of lesson. Answer Key provided. Enjoy!
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 39
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Gerund Role Play
Good practice for verbs immediately followed by gerunds and verb/adjective + preposition followed by gerunds. This could be a review activity and could be used after my gerund board game. Topics and language functions appropriate for adults.
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: others
Downloads: 24
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Future Perfect vs Future Perfect Progressive Board Game
This board game helps student to formulate How many/much/How long Yes/No future perfect and future perfect progressive questions.
Students also practise using future time clauses with by + date, by the time, when, before. Board game uses both active and stative verbs. Topics are suitable for adults at an upper intermediate to advanced level of E...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: others
Downloads: 23
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Earthquake Survival Situation
Students imagine that they are in a post earthquake situation.
They must plan their response and choose 12 items from a list of goods. Good interactive activity. Students must justify their choices. This lesson can use conditionals or infinitive of purpose to explain reason. It is also a good review of household items or vocabulary related to ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: others
Downloads: 29
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Revealing Secrets
Speaking lesson for revealing secrets! My inspiration came from reality shows where participants would come on TV to reveal their secrets. Great lesson for intermediate and above students. This lesson starts off with a survey to generate discussion, language functions for revealing secrets and bad news and finally role-play to practice the langu...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 6
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Eating Insects Listening Exercise
"Insecteresting" topic about consuming insects for food. In the style of FCE or CAE Listening Part 2, students must listen to this short video clip to complete the summary. Be warned that students may be fascinated with just watching the clip (ew!) before focusing on the task. Of course, it is not an exact transcript but a summary. Fill in the gap ...
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 46
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Groundhog Day (A)
This is a speaking and listening activity based on a Youtube video of the same name. You can find the link here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDFy7_DM_qQ
Please also use the accompanying Groundhog Day (B) worksheet because two of the exercises involve pairwork.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type:
Downloads: 7
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Sports and Leisure Game
Students answer various Yes/No/Wh questions about sports and leisure. There is A and B part of the board game. Students can pair off A - A / B - B and then A -B to maximize speaking practice. In the latter part, students practice listening to their partner�s questions and answering a different set of questions.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: others
Downloads: 18
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Cheers!
Warning! This is a lesson intended for adults of legal drinking age. Students start with discussion questions about drinking, then practice controlled dialogues involving ordering drinks, etc followed by learning other related expressions. Finally, students try freer practice with role-playing. Enjoy!
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 8
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Speed Dating Activity
Fun conversational-whole class role-play activity appropriate for young-mature adults who have experience dating. I have used this as a pre-writing activity focusing on the use of restrictive and non-restrictive clauses. Lesson plan attached.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 5
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