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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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Activity Students each have a small piece of paper/card like the one above with a phrase in the target language and it’s translation [...]
May 5, 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 Students each have a sheet in the format of the one pictured above. Each student secretly chooses one of the phrases from inside of [...]
April 16, 2012
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This is a quick way to revise lots of vocabulary on topics, good for GCSE. Very simply, you line students up in 2 lines or get them to do it in [...]
April 15, 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