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Lesson Share: Team games: Who wants to be a millionaire?

This is a fun way of revising multiple choice questions based on the TV show 'Who wants to be a Millionaire?'.

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Lesson Share: Team games: Word taboo

This activity is adapted from a popular party game.

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Lesson Share: Team games: The top twenty

This is a team exercise based around the concept of word frequency.

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Imaginative materials: teaching with party games

In many parts of the world the end of the year is the season for parties. And in class, the last lesson of the year often has a party atmosphere. So, to help things go with a swing, here are three classic party games adapted to be a little more ...

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Skills: Glorious gap-fills

There seem to be an awful lot of gap-fill exercises in course books nowadays. And sometimes they can be rather dreary for students and teacher alike. Well, you could try some of these ideas.

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Lesson Share: Gaps and guessing: Hitting the headlines

This activity works well because it is creative without being overly demanding, and it has the effect of making students feel important by raising the ordinary, day-to-day events of their lives to the status of headlines.

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Lesson Share: Gaps and guessing: Human interest

This is a good way to get students speaking at the start of a lesson, since human interest stories are often short but engaging, so there is a natural curiosity among students to find out what actually happened.

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Lesson Share: Gaps and guessing: Thoughts that help us to live

The students really enjoy this activity when I introduce a topic for discussion e.g. biography, character, famous personalities and some others.

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General: using translation

There is a great deal of useful awareness-raising when learners compare English with their own tongue. Here are four great translation games - and they don’t even require you to speak the other language!

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General: making things last

Ever run out of things to do five minutes before the end of class? There are some fairly simple tricks for usefully extending an activity – so that things just beautifully fall into place.

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General: pairing and grouping students

With current teaching methodology teachers are constantly needing to get students into pairs or small groups. A bit of variety can sometimes raise a smile and can also help you to mix up groupings a little.

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General: planning lessons

Remember, a plan is not a route-map of what must happen in class, it is only your informed setting-up of some possibilities. Here are a few ideas for alternative plans:

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General: setting homework

Tired of setting the usual homework tasks? Here are 18 unusual ideas for "homedo" tasks.

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I was going to, but…

An American English worksheet to invent sentences using picture cards as cues.

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Skills: graded readers

Reading a novel is essentially a private, personal activity – but it can still provide useful classroom work . Here are some ideas for working with graded readers in class.

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Lesson Share: Vocabulary: Grammar scattergories

In this exercise students come up with different words for grammar categories.

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Grammar: 'unless' and 'if'

An article explaining the difference in meaning between if and unless in conditional sentences.

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Grammar: 'them' and 'they'

An explanation of the use of them and they in different contexts.

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Grammar: modal verbs may and might

An article explaining the difference between the modal verbs may and might.

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Grammar: word order in passive questions

An article offering an explanation and teaching suggestions on word order in passive questions.