All British English articles – Page 138
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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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ArticleImaginative 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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House and garden
A British English worksheet to unscramble the letters to name the parts of the house and garden.
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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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Reading lesson plans: Genius
Students complete a series of activities based on a text about a genius.
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Phrase of the week: to get the sack
Tim Bowen sheds some light on the origins and definition of the phrase to get the sack.
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Getting ready to go
A British English worksheet to speak to as many partners as possible, asking and answering questions about travel plans.
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Pronunciation skills: Glossaries
Jonathan Marks offers a helpful short glossary of terminology for teaching pronunciation: homophones, rhotic and rhythm.
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ArticlePhrasal verbs: I'm going to let you in on a little secret
Another way of teaching phrasal verbs is by teaching a thematic 'set' of phrasal verbs. This lesson presents a set of nine phrasal verbs, all connected to the theme of giving and obtaining information. There is a recognition based activity, followed by a speaking activity to incorporate the phrasal verbs into use.