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Passives
Using key time words as prompts, students must formulate passive questions, and then interview their partners about their countries.
Students may then write a paragraph about their partners.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 12
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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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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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FCE Use of English Part 4 Sentence Transformation
Taking vocabulary as/like/ as if/though from FCE Gold Unit 3 and reviewing content from Unit 2, this activity practices Use of English Part 4 Sentence Transformation from the FCE Use of English test. Use between 2 to 5 words to transform the sentence. Cut into strips and work with a partner, or give one to each student in the class and use as a mix...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 15
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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: 27
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Phrasal Verb Board Game and RolePlay
This activity gives oral practice with phrasal verbs. The students should already be familiar with phrasal verbs such as come across, go along with, put up with etc. Students identify the phrasal verbs with the prompts, interview each other and finish the lesson with role-play. Topics are suitable for teens to adults. Answer Key provided.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 48
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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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Battling Obesity in America
This speaking/listening activity is based on a youtube video from CBS
"Where America Stands on Obesity"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM-rZm-ilFA
Listening skills involved include listening for statistics, note-taking and summing up video. Also includes postdiscussion questions. Obesity is a contemporary topic that affects all countries. ...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 10
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Future in the Past Board Game
Board Game to practise future in the past verb forms:
was going to/planning to/thinking of/ on the point/verge of/was due to/would/was/were to and was were to have + PP. Because there are a variety of forms, this board game is appropriate for the higher levels. The grammar was taken from New American Inside Out Advanced Unit 4. Also appropriate...
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Type: others
Downloads: 69
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Gerund Board Game
The focus is on reviewing adjective + preposition and verb + preposition and gerund form. Students must remember the preposition that belongs with a particular adjective or verb and to change the verb in brackets to gerund form.
Students can either fill in the blank of a sentence or question, then answer the question.
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: others
Downloads: 33
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