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The teacher’s chair is the ‘Hot Seat’. Send a S outside the class to think up questions for his/her classmates. Give the rest of the class a pattern.
They must use this pattern ...
T reads out a list of words, and SS can join in by supplying a word once they’ve spotted (or think they have) the connection. Do you know? Carpet, train, never, rubbish, heavy, yellow, wea ...
Tell the SS that the wall with the whiteboard on it is North. Ask them what the opposite wall is. “South?”, fantastic, and this wall? “East”, and this? “West”. ...
Write an idiomatic expression (such as "It beats me." or "I'm fed up.") in big letters on the board.
Call on a few students to guess what it means before you tell them.
Write a number of adjectives, such as mysterious, happy, peaceful, sad, angry, and frustrated on the board.
Call out a color, and ask your students to tell you which adjective they associate with ...
An ice-breaker to allow students to know their teacher better by asking and answering questions about him/her. The idea is to ask students to write personal questions they would like to ask to and ...
Write a word on a slip of paper and show it to a student.
This student must whisper it to the second student. Then the second student must draw a picture of what he or she heard, and show it to t ...
Write "Tell me something I don't know." on the board, then ask students questions about things they know about and you don't, such as their lives, cultural background, interests, and work.
Write a common adjacency pair (Thank you./You're welcome OR I'm sorry./That's alright) on the board.
Ask students if they know of any expressions that could replace one of the ones you just wrote ...
Draw an island and make sentences about what would happen if they cut down the trees there. Make a bunch of cards and put into two boxes. In one of the boxes put conditions and in the other one ...
Write a number of adjectives, such as mysterious, happy, peaceful, sad, angry, and frustrated on the board.
Call out a color, and ask your students to tell you which adjective they associate with ...
Write your name on the board vertically, and add a suitable adjective that begins with each letter of your name.
The next step is to invite students to do the same.
Write down the names of about five very different people on the board (a small baby, a rude waiter in a restaurant, a fashion model, a stranger in a crowd, and a grandfather). Give students a comm ...
In this worksheet, there are four variants of a test paper. It includes complex exercices, but centered mainly on verb: forms, tenses, modals, but also some vocabulary practice for adjectives, num ...
Present Simple - All types of sentences - Revision. This worksheet is very useful when revising Present Simple.
P.S. You do not have to give your students all of the exercises given in this works ...
Review a phrase or sentence that you want students to remember, by holding a competition to see "Who can say it the loudest/the quietest/the quickest/the slowest/in the deepest voice/in the highes ...
Put students in pairs.
Tell them to converse, but to deliberately make one grammatical error over and over, stopping only when one student can spot the other's intentional error.
Put the students in small groups, and ask each group to plan a vacation for you.
They must plan where you will go, what you will do, who you will go with, and what you will buy.
When they are fi ...
Present Continuous - All types of sentences - Revision. This worksheet is very useful when revising Present Continuous. It has got 11various exercises from adding- ing ending to making sentences. ...
Prepare several paper bags, each with a different scent inside (perfume, cinnamon, cheese), pass the bags around the class, and let students describe what they smell.
Purchase a postcard for each member of your class, writing his or her name in the name and address space.
Turn them picture side up on a table, have each student choose one (without looki ...
Provide each student with a list of the current top ten popular songs.
Play excerpts from some or all of the songs, and choose some questions to ask your students, such as: Did you like the song? ...
Produce a list of commonly used sentence-modifying adverbs on the board, such as suddenly, actually, unfortunately, and happily.
Then launch into a story, which each student must contribute to, w ...
Print phrases such as "in the library" "at an elegant dinner with the Royal Family" "in a noisy bar" "in a dangerous neigborhood" on separate strips of paper, put them in envelopes, and tape them ...
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