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Give students a bunch of words or phrases to ‘sort’ any way they like. Students may choose to categorise the words by meanings, [...]
February 15, 2013
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An extension of gap fill around the room. Instead of a matchup on a sheet, you could get everyone out of their seats with a treasure hunt. Hide a [...]
July 23, 2012
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Speaking activity, especially good for higher-ability students. Take a stack of cards with words on them (I use my Kloo cards) and divide them [...]
April 25, 2012
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Activity Another way of presenting vocabulary before drilling for pronunciation. Give the students an empty table with a column for the TL [...]
April 12, 2012
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Prepare a sentence-builder type table, each column containing 6 or so options (depending how long you want the activity to go on for…). [...]
April 12, 2012
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This is a bit like Snatch, but calmer and fewer bits of paper flying around! You give students a sheet of paper with images (or words) on, and [...]
April 12, 2012
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Irregular preterites = difficult to learn. Tactic 1 – the song, which I heard being sung around the corridors for days afterwards! I got [...]
April 12, 2012
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This is good for getting students to listen to others when reading a text. Everyone has a copy of the text to read along. One person starts [...]
April 12, 2012
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Answer the question before: Silly revision. Teacher asks 2 questions initially, the first is unanswered and the second is answered by a student, [...]
April 11, 2012
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Take a text and cut it into small phrase-sized or sentence-sized chunks. Divide the class into groups – groups of 4-5 works best. Keep the [...]
April 10, 2012