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Lesson Share: Spelling: Proofreading challenge

A warmer to practise correcting spelling and punctuation.

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Lesson Share: Spelling: Word chain

This warmer/lesson filler gets students to focus on a topic and listen to their classmates.

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Lesson Share: Team games: The categories game

This activity can be used to recycle or brainstorm vocabulary and is appropriate for all levels.

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Lesson Share: Memory games: The Emperor's cat

A quick warmer to practise adjectives.

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Lesson Share: Dictations: Cannibalizing warmers

These three warmers were created by taking parts of diifferent activities and switching them around to create new activities.

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Cambridge ESOL: Skills for Life: Computers

This lesson aims to help students learn vocabulary associated with computers.

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Exams: FCE or CAE cloze practice games

Three games to liven up exam class practice for the open cloze exam tasks, and to make sure students really know their way around the exam.

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Types of business

Students practise a range of different skills in relation to types of business.

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Vocabulary: while, whilst, burned, burnt

A discussion about using 'while' versus 'whilst' and 'burned' versus 'burnt'.

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Minimal resources: Building dialogue

Scott Thornbury gives us some great tips and ideas for building dialogue in speaking activities.

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Professional development: teachers using broken English

Advice on how to tackle the problem of teachers using broken English.

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British English: Discoveries and inventions – teacher's notes

To learn about inventions.

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British English: Responsibilities are like weights – worksheet and teacher's notes

To highlight the metaphorical meanings of several words and expressions related to responsibility.

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British English: Winning – worksheet and teacher's notes

To highlight the metaphorical meanings of several words and phrases related to winning and losing in sports.

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Lesson Share: Team games: 'Board relay race' and 'True or false'

A team warmer for brainstorming and an amusing icebreaker exercise.

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Imaginative materials: board games for teaching English

Learners are often familiar with popular board games. Inventing new games (or adapting familiar games) can often produce materials that motivate students to talk and practise language.

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Speaking: Dictionary bluff

A definitions games that involves all four skills.

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Lesson Share: Team games: Blockbusters

A simple warmer based on a 1980s UK television show.

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Lesson Share: Memory games: Vocabulary bingo

Here is an exciting warmer for students which helps them to revise vocabulary learned in previous lessons.

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Grammar: differences between could and can

An article discussing the differences between could and can when expressing possibility.