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Design Your Own Micronation
This activity works well in small groups. I use it to practice modals of permission, prohibition and obligation. In small groups, students design their own nation and invent their own rules and laws. Great fun!
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 3
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Compose a song / poem
This is a set of rhyming word groups from which students compose a song or a poem. These word groups introduce new vocabulary and are used as a guide (I let students add other words if they like). They work in small groups and compose a song or a poem which they then read to the class. My students love this.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 8
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Crime Roleplay
A roleplay about a bank robbery. Minimum 7 people but can easily be used for bigger classes. Students read the news article with info about a bank robbery. Then they each take a role - judge, jury, accused, witness, alibi, police officer. Using the information on their cards they are called to the witness stand to give evidence. The judge and jury ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 89
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Charity Fundraiser
For use either in hypoythetical situations or to plan a real fundraiser. Students work in small groups and think of ideas for raising money for charity. They then plan their fundraising activity and present it to the group.
Extra activity: Tell each group that they have 50,000 tokens to give to the charity of their choice. After each group has pr...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 6
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Spped Job Interviews (2)
This works like speed dating, except it�s speed interviews. Divide the class into two - one half interviewers and one half interviewees. Each interviewer gets a card and �interviews� each interviewee for two minutes before deciding who will get their job. I usually sit the interviewers in a line. Interviewees then change desk every two minutes.
Th...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 8
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Upper Intermediate Quiz
This is a quiz I wrote for the Macmillan, Straight Forward, Upper Intermediate book. It is designed to revise vocabulary from the book, however, I find it works well as a general quiz in class too. Works well in small groups. Answer sheet included.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 0
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ENVIRONMENT PRESS CONFERENCE / ROLE PLAY
This press conference activity splits the class into two debate groups. One group are local government members, defending and improving thir policies on environmental change. The second group are citizens wanting the government to do more and offering solutions and suggestions.
This is a great activity to get students talking.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 30
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A Postcard From Paradise?
An intermediate (B1) level reading text to practice phrasal verbs related to travel, travel vocabulary and as a prompt to start speaking activities relating to travel.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 50
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Typical English Pub Menu
I used this menu in a restaurant role-play class. Students can practice numbers and money counting, ordering food etc. I also used a recipe with this got them to write their own recipe which then became a special on the menu in the role-play
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 14
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Restaurant Role-Play
A restaurant role-play used for groups of four (three customers and one waiter/waitress) to practise restaurant phrases, ordering, asking for the bill and general conversation.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 6
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