All British English articles – Page 137
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ESP bank: EAP: Reading and writing: Worksheet
Practical activities to help students focus on redrafting written text.
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ESP bank: EAP: Reading and writing: Presentation: Lesson plan
Practical activities to help students focus on redrafting written text.
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Grammar: Rock band role-play
Students work on a press release about a rock band, practising use of the present perfect.
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Reading lesson plans: Bamboo
Students complete a series of activities based on a text about bamboo.
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ArticleLesson Share: Teenagers: The balloon game
A fun game to energize students and foster cooperation / team spirit.
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Lesson Share: Spelling: Spelling ball
A simple and very fun game that warms students up and encourages creativity and correct spelling.
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Imaginative materials: teaching with simple props: bags
Teachers and learners carry books and equipment to their lessons in a variety of smart or scruffy bags. Here are some ways you could make use of these unassuming objects in class.
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Phrase of the week: to let the cat out of the bag
Tim Bowen sheds some light on the origins and definition of the phrase to let the cat out of the bag.
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Cambridge ESOL: Skills for Life: Bad CV
This lesson aims to help students read CVs to obtain meaning and write their own CV.
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Verb backgammon
A British English worksheet to use the backgammon pieces to change each short word into a verb.
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Lesson Share: Memory games: Clap back
Clap back is good for breaking the ice in a lesson, getting a little energy into the classroom, improving pronunciation and developing general memory skills.
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General: are parrots back in fashion?
Current methodology seems to pay far less attention to memorising and remembering activities than more traditional teaching approaches. Here are a few practical ideas for being creatively unfashionable.
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Grammar and vocabulary: techniques for autonomous vocabulary learning
An article highlighting useful techniques for autonomous vocabulary learning.
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Titles and authors
A British English worksheet to read out the names of the authors and write down the sentence or phrase which sounds exactly the same.
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ArticleImaginative materials: teaching with authentic materials
Catalogues, shop brochures and leaflets are a type of authentic material often available free and in quantity. Here are some ideas for using these, whether printed in English or another language.
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The auditor career game
To expand and practise the basic vocabulary associated with financial auditing.
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Teenagers: Writing: Grammar auctions
An activity designed to practise grammar and proof reading.
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Lesson Share: Pictures: Auction game
This exercise involves students bidding on items in an auction, and is good for writing practice and discussion.