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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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General topics: Project ideas

This article explains why project work can benefit young learners, and offers ideas for turning coursebook topics into projects.

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House and garden

A British English worksheet to unscramble the letters to name the parts of the house and garden.

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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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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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Grammar Games: Pub quiz—Past & Present Simple

Have your students practice Past and Present Simple with this fun trivia game.

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Grammar Games: It's So Irregular!—Irregular Verbs

Have your students practice irregular verbs in present, past, and past participle forms with this fun card game.

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Lesson Share: Memory games: The washing line

A short memory game about clothes on a washing line.

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Lesson Share: Memory games: What did you do?

When the class is feeling bored, here is a game they can play in groups or as a class.

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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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Teenagers: Games

A guide to using games in the classroom with lots of games and activities. Many of these games can be used by all ages.

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Teenagers: Grammar: Grammar games

Some games to help teach grammar to teenagers and young learners.

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Grammar Games: The No-go Game

Have your students practice creatiing sentences using this printable board game.

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Speaking: Sentence structure game

A card game for revising vocabulary, sentence structure and word order.