James
Bridging the Gap: Linking Lessons to Your Students' World.
TESOL Conference, Madrid March 2023 Kids and teenagers often walk into our classrooms engaged in lively debate and eager to share their...
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Free lesson plans and English activities for adventurous EFL teachers.
James
Computer Games
Video games are one of the things young students are often keen to talk about. What's more, they probably know more about them than you,...
James
Places in Spain
Vocabulary to practice describing scenery and cities using famous Spanish landmarks.
James
Stressed Out
Speaking activities based on the 21 pilots song. Talking about what we used to do as kids and what we wish were different about life...
James
Harvey Does Housework.
A funny advert for Young learners to review daily chores, with vocabulary like “wash the clothes” & “cook the dinner
Dave
Linking Phrases, Conjunctions, those sorts of things
Rationale I use this activity over the course of 2 lessons to reinforce and help students become more comfortable with how to utilise the...
James
The Fox
What Does the Fox Say? A fantastic teaching resource for young learner EFL classes. Kids love it and it has loads of useful language.
James
Teaching Functional Language with Music.
A syllabus of useful phrases which young learners can learn from the hooks of famous pop songs.
James
Somebody That I Used to Know GOTYE
Vocabulary activity using a the popular song. It's catchy and the lyrics tell a story. It's a handy intro to get students talking about...
Dave
Who's off to stay at 'The Worst Hotel in the World'?
Set up Start the class by having a discussion about the most irritating celebrity in Spain/your country. Try and a reach a group...
Dave
Who am I? - For or Since Edition!
A Creative Way to Review For & Since There are several ways to do this activity, depending on the level of support you feel your students...
James
Advanced Speaking Phrases.
Advanced English Phrases for CAE students.
Dave
Reminders for FCE & CAE Speaking Part 3
Speaking Part Three - You've done all the teaching of the various skills and phrases and now all the students need to do is to practise....
James
Informal Letter Writing 2: Responding to Questions.
How to structure informal letters and respond effectively to questions. Particularly useful for PET and FCE
James
Informal Letter Writing 1: Opening Paragraph
Activity to practise the first part of informal letters: replying to a friend. Particularly useful for PET students.
James
Formal Letter writing
Formal Letter Writing Practice made fun for FCE and CAE students.
Dave
Building a conversation
Communication is king, long live communication! As the students grow in both confidence and level we want them to communicate with each...
Dave
Stay on Target
Helping students identify what they must write about in the writing part of the Cambridge First Exam. Rationale With the way the...
Dave
Reviewing Language Used in a Discussion
The way I dance it…
A memorable way to review language and phrases used for a discussion.
James
Whatever it Takes.
Famous motivational quotes and an upbeat Imagine Dragons song to inspire students to discuss their Goals.
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