All Elementary articles – Page 53

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    Imaginative materials: yummy yummy yummy!

    An interesting way to teach basic food vocabulary at lower levels is to also include some colloquial expressions such as ‘Yummy!’ ‘I’m starving!’ and ‘Yuk!' Once students know a dialogue you can easily substitute words to practise the names of different foods.

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    Imaginative materials: Texting

    Do you get annoyed when your students concentrate on using their mobile phones to text each other rather than focusing on the lesson? Here are five ideas for exploiting text messaging in class.

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    Imaginative materials: pets

    Pets and other animals play an important role in many learners' lives. Here are some ideas for exploiting the theme.

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    Imaginative materials: teaching with simple props: string

    Some props don't immediately suggest themselves as useful teaching aids. For example, what could one possibly do with a bag of clothes pegs and a piece of string? Mmm…

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    Imaginative materials: teaching with newspapers

    Teachers rarely have access to whole class sets of newspapers. Here are six ideas for things you can do using a single copy of a newspaper.

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    Imaginative materials: treasure hunting

    How could you create an exciting treasure hunt puzzle for your students? Here are ideas for two kinds of game – a basic chain of clues and letterboxing.

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    How was your vacation?

    An American English worksheet to speak to as many partners as possible, asking and answering questions about a vacation.

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    How much do you know?

    An American English worksheet to review the use of the past simple.

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    At home

    Write the words for the household items into the grid to find three English proverbs.

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    A holiday

    A British English worksheet to guess details about a partner's last holiday and to find out how many predictions were right.

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    Health survey

    An American English worksheet to do a health survey.

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    Health survey

    A British English worksheet to do a health survey practising countable and uncountable nouns and food and drink vocabulary.

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    Health quiz

    An American English worksheet to practise talking about food, diets and lifestyles.

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    Sentences in a hat

    An American English worksheet to complete unfinished sentences. To pick sentences out of a hat and find out who wrote them by asking questions.

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    Sentences in a hat

    A British English worksheet to complete unfinished sentences. To pick sentences out of a hat and find out who wrote them by asking questions.

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    Reading lesson plans: Hair

    Students complete a series of activities based on a text about hair.

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    Habits

    An American English worksheet to write about habits and routines and to find people in the class with the same habits and routines.

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    Habits

    A British English worksheet to write about habits and routines and to find people in the class with the same habits and routines.

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    Guess the place

    An American English worksheet to write down what you can and can't do in places, and to guess what the places are by reading the rules.

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    Methodology: individualizing in groups

    An article offering suggestions and advice on how to individualize learning within a group.