These reported speech activities give learners a fun and practical way to practise reporting what someone else said. Instead of drilling rules, students use real or imagined conversations, mini speeches, and bizarre questions to explore how reported speech works. These activities are especially useful at B1 level and above, where learners already have some control […]
These present perfect activities cover different uses of the tense: talking about life experiences, recently completed actions, and past events with present relevance. They work well for upper A2 to B2 level learners and are easily adapted for classroom or online teaching. Present Perfect – Past Participles Present perfect crossword Use a present perfect crossword […]
Which article (a, an, the or no article) do the subjects of these photographs take? Click on a picture to open the slideshow.
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As well as helping students to remember the names of different items, this memory game (sometimes known as Pelmanism) is also great for practising prepositions of position. Before playing, point at some of the different unturned cards and try to elicit from the students how they could describe the position of the cards. For example on […]
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Here’s a quick idea for reviewing and uncovering clothes vocabulary and practising the second conditional. Brainstorm as many different types of clothes as possible starting with the head and working down. Write all this vocabulary on the board in columns labelled Head / Top / Bottom / Hands and Feet. You could use our clothes […]
Here’s a photoset designed to elicit third conditional sentences expressing regrets. Each photo shows a non-ideal situation which may now be regretted. Remind your students of the form, ie., wish with past perfect – I wish I had gone to bed earlier, I wish I hadn’t drunk so much wine last night. Then show each […]
Dictation activities are a simple but powerful tool for developing listening skills, improving spelling, and helping students notice grammatical forms in context. When used creatively, they can go far beyond the traditional “listen and write” approach. Whether you want to warm up a lesson, reinforce a grammar point, or focus on fluency and accuracy, these […]
Some days it’s just too hot to stay indoors. If you have access to a nearby patch of ground, why not take your students outside? A change of scenery can do wonders for engagement and creativity. Here are ten outdoor activities that require little or no preparation. (See also: Spring and Summer Activities.) Scavenger hunt […]
