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Teamwork – consultation. As well as general knowledge you can ask commonsense - trick questions to allow calculated answers – gives everyone a chance…
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You write nouns on slips of paper. You put the slips of paper in a hat and each student takes one. The student then reads the word on the slip of paper and has to tell the other students what it i ...
First of all using the same outline as you would a normal bingo sheet, fill in each block with questions.
For example, find someone who has a brother or a sister, find someone who can play the pi ...
"My name's George and I like beer."
Students and teacher do this activity together.
Student A announces her name and what she likes (or where she lives, what she does, where she's been...). Stud ...
Put the topic of the unit/topic to the board (KITCHEN OBJECTS; UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS, ADJECTIVES TO DESCRIBE A PERSON, IRREGULAR PAST TENSES, etc) and have Ss brainstorm what they know about the topic.
(Focus on pronunciation & spelling.)
Eye halve a spelling checker
That came with my pea sea.
Plane as day it shoes four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a ...
Have your students add one word at a time to some basic sentence you write on the board, making the sentence as long as possible.
See an example below:
The fat and ugly sisters who tried ...
The students think of three sentences, two are facts and one is a lie.
One by one, students introduce themselves and say their three sentences. The rest of the class has to guess which one is a l ...
To get students to share information about themselves.
I ask them to imagine that they have brought 4 of their favorite photos from home which represent events, people or places that are importan ...
Tell them to imagine that this is the last class period, and they should stand up and pretend that they are saying farewell. If the students seem reluctant, help them with a few useful phrases suc ...
Ss interview their partners, then introduce their partners to the class.
“This is my friend, Jim Thomson, he lives in Dundee, etc...".
Simple enough, but the variations are r ...
This activity requires no preparation.
The students must ask each other questions until they find three things that they have in common. They must be things that are not obvious. For example, the ...
1. DRAW on the board as many objects as the letters in your name. The first letter of the name of each object must be a letter in your name. Draw the objects at random order.
2. Have your ...
Ss shout out the words they know in English. Then they use them to make the longest sentense possible.
Put them into groups and tell them to make a list of all the words they know in Engl ...
This is a level test that you can use to define the level of new students. I has sentences on 'to be', pronouns, Present Perfect, etc.
Unfortunately, no answer key was provided by the contri ...
Here is 14 pages of August images: a calendar, a writing template, and a lot of coloring pages that all have something to do with August theme.
This collection was kindly provided by Evan-M ...
This is a collection of beginner-level coloring pages that will come in handy with a class of younger learners. There are Flowers, Borders, Winter, Cowgirl Charm, Music, Sunny Daze, and also a min ...
If you're teaching (or are about to start) a group of younger learners, they'll LOVE these high quality coloring pages for basic shapes, coloring page puzzles, imagination and motivation coloring ...
Today we're presenting 5 Hoops and Yoyo weekly planners that will help your learners stay organized and focused on studies. It's a good idea to print those on a color printer (one copy per student ...
This worksheet contains a bunch of motivational images with notes such as 'I worked carefully' or 'I didn't give up' that you can print out on the special 'sticker' paper and then cut up into indi ...
A comprehensive english test: reading comprehension, language and writing exercises in context with authentic material. It was prepared by a group of teachers and it deals with different topics su ...
This 'Name As Many ... as possible' activity works very well as a warmer to start a lesson - hand out the cards to the teams or individual students and have them compete (orally if used with Inter ...
Remember our first collection of 11 Teachers' Room Motivational Posters? Well, here's some more to make your teachers' Room a fun place to stay!
Included into this collection:
Coff ...
Congratulations on the beginning of July! Today's collection is 12 pages of seasonal activities for July, it contains weekly calendars, americal flag, pictures of a few relevant summer activities, ...
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