Here are some spring and summer activities to enjoy the longer warm and light days. See also Outdoor Activities for a Sunny Day. You can also find spring and summer activities for online classes at learnhip.com. Sounds of Summer On our online-focused sister site learnhip.com we have the perfect audio quiz for you. Can you […]
Kim’s Game is a classic memory activity that works brilliantly for reviewing there is / there are (and their past forms) while introducing useful household vocabulary. It’s simple to set up and always gets students talking. What You’ll Need Example items:a battery, a tea bag, a fork, two teaspoons, a light bulb, a rubber band, […]
Teaching with video used to be difficult to set up. You would have to wheel in the ancient school TV, or more recently have enough fully prepared laptops for whatever your chosen activity was. However, these days probably every student is carrying a wireless, internet-connected, high defintiton video player and you can point them at […]
Suggestion box – first and second conditionals This is a fun way to review the first and second conditionals, this activity obviously works best if you edit the materials in the worksheet to be more applicable to your clients’ own situations. Step 1. Introduce the idea of a staff suggestion box and ask whether the students’ […]
What job should I do? This activity is based on an exercise in a book for job seekers to help them identify rewarding career paths. Make a list of character traits such as these: reliable hard-working creative flexible ready to travel good communicator eager to learn leadership skills adventurous calm articulate curious determined enthusiastic focused […]
Describing graphs – using the present perfect to talk about change We can use adverbs like slightly, gradually, slowly, steadily, suddenly, dramatically,significantly to give more information about the rate of change. Add some lines tothe first two graphs and label them with an appropriate adverb. Use some of these terms to talk about how things […]
Simple telephone roleplay Telephone English is generally uncomplicated and straightforward, there’s a limited set of specific language which needs to be covered, the exception being conference calls which have their own set of challenges. This activity is designed to give students some very general situations in which to cover some common telephone call scenarios. Go through […]
Give pairs of students a copy of the Venn diagram. Ask them to sort the collocations below the diagram into the two areas stated in the circles. If the collocation seems to fit in both areas then they should write it in the middle section. When everyone is finished, draw the diagram on the board […]
These following dialogues are split into two columns. In one column the English contains an error. Students read through the dialogue and decide for each line of dialogue which column contains the correct language. The dialogue contains grammatical forms and vocabulary which can then be focused on in follow up activities, for example, a telephone […]
Business idioms are part of daily working life. These worksheets allow your learners to see a number of business-related idioms in context. First, they should use their prior knowledge and educated guesswork to complete the idioms. Then see if the class can work out the meanings from their context. Learners are then invited to think of […]
