Easy Hint for Better Speaking
Here is just a hint to help the kids improve their speaking skills. It can be used for speeches, but also for role-plays, in pairwork (talking about a selected topic), creative writing. I think it ...
Subject Matters For The Debates And Oral Exams
Looking for subject matters to get debates and discussions going. Here's a list to stimulate you. Also comes in quite handy as speaking in groups at oral exams. Subjects that are part of our youn ...
Job Interview Roleplay
Teachers can use this worksheet to have students of intermediate level practice their interviewing skills such as questioning, analyzing, decision-making… The class will be divided into two ...
Have You Got...?
Pair work speaking activity: Students A and B have different pictures. First, teacher elicits the needed vocabulary with the whole group. Secondly, students work on the questions individually, w ...
A Press Conference: Role Play
I designed this worksheet to practice indirect questions. A student will play one of the roles in it as a celebrity, while the others may ask questions based on the gists given. Of course, you can ...
Famous Person Role-play Game
This is a role-play game for intermediate and advanced students. They have to work in pairs, one student will be a famous person and the other one will be the interviewer. Students will practice t ...
Weather Reporter
Weather girl/boy activity: The document has weather symbols to cut out and use. I usually get the student to draw a Map of Spain or other country and have them choose five cities. They make up a w ...
Daily Routine and Habits
This is a pairwork about daily routine. Pupils usually start a conversation on daily routine using vocabulary on this theme. There is a little bit of grammar and then they sum up their neighbours' ...
After Sales Dialogue [Complaint]
This is a cloze test in the form of a dialogue. Students could work in pairs or small groups in order to complete the conversation using the words given. When they have finished they could act t ...
Shopping Situations & Role-Plays
This exercise is good for developing conversation skills. It contains situations for pairwork practice. One student is a customer, the other a shop assistant and they need to negotiate, compromise ...
Role Plays: Relationships
4 unusual and fun situations for students to role play. Tested in the classroom. Students love them and get all involved and enthusiastic. Perfect for intermediate level and up. For your convenien ...
Interviewing Famous People
This is an interesting activity for your students to use past tense and question formation. In pairs they have to prepare an interview to a famous person, the dates and facts are provided. 10 minu ...
Monday Madness Game
This game (board and situation cards) was created to revise and practice functional language: apologizing, socializing and asking for help. Originally tailored to upper-intermediate and advanced s ...
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