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Lesson Share: Mingle activities: What's in a name?

An activity about stories associated with students' names.

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Lesson Share: Mingle activities: Find your partner

There are numerous variations on this but one of the most effective is to prepare a series of two-line dialogues consisting of a statement (or a question) and a response.

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Lesson Share: Mingle activities: Pronunciation 'find someone who'.

This is a familiar exercise, widely used as a warmer and a 'get to know you' exercise, but the pronunciation version is a bit different and focuses the learners on this particular aspect of the language.

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Lesson Share: Mingle activities: Question swap

This is a great way to get your students talking. It can be used as revision or to introduce a topic.

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Teaching English spelling: Useful Activities

An article offering suggestions for teaching English spelling from Tim Bowen.

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Minimal resources: Simple activities

These simple activities use minimal resources and can be used in any part of a lesson. They are easy to adapt (according to the class level and language point being taught) and can be used with other activities to form a full lesson, or as a 'filler' if you have ...

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General: extension activities

Ever run out of things to do five minutes before the end of class? An important lesson management skill is to make your material perfectly fit the lesson time.

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Lesson Share: Drama: Walking in acting

A short drama activity to test students' comprehension, listening and speaking skills.

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Lesson Share: Team games: 'Seven letters', 'Winner takes all' and 'Talk about it'

Three short team activities.

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Minimal resources: 8 writing activities

Adrian Tennant and Lindsay Clandfield provide us with some inspiring activities for teaching writing with minimal resources.

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Minimal resources: 8 fun intermediate and above activities

Miles Craven provides some fun and valuable ideas for teaching intermediate and above students with minimal resources.

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Vocabulary: exercise 6 - make and do

Advice and teaching suggestions of how to overcome the confusion between 'make' and 'do.'

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Vocabulary: exercise 5 - make and do

Advice and teaching suggestions of how to overcome the confusion between 'make' and 'do.'

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Vocabulary: exercise 4 - make and do

Advice and teaching suggestions of how to overcome the confusion between 'make' and 'do.'

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Grammar contrasts 3: will vs going to

An article explaining the difference between will and going to when talking about the future.

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Vocabulary: exercise 3 - make and do

Advice and teaching suggestions of how to overcome the confusion between 'make' and 'do.'

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Spot the differences 3

An American English worksheet to find ten differences between two pictures by asking and answering questions.

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Vocabulary: 2000 most common words

A discussion about teaching the 2000 most common English words.

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Get out of the classroom 2

Ideas for outdoor lessons which will have an element of English in them.

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Grammar contrasts 2: past simple vs present perfect

An article explaining the difference between the present perfect and past simple tenses.