All Extra articles – Page 4
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Lesson Share: Pictures: Using your photographs in lessons
Personal photographs of your travels provide a useful starting point for this discussion activity.
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Lesson Share: Spelling: Spelling tennis
A team activity for revising spelling or vocabulary.
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Lesson Share: Spelling: Sound race
This exercise focuses students on the relationship between sound and spelling.
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Lesson Share: Vocabulary: Stories from vocabulary
This is an activity for reviewing vocabulary and has two variations.
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Lesson Share: Vocabulary: The Statue of Liberty
An activity to revise vocabulary and information about a famous monument.
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Lesson Share: Vocabulary: Vocabulary practice
A simple warmer/lesson filler to practise colours, forms and materials.
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Lesson Share: Vocabulary: Pass the parcel
This is a good revision activity and helps to foster a lively group atmosphere.
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Lesson Share: Teenagers: Lateral thinking
This is an activity where students have to work out riddles, and practises question forms and vocabulary.
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Teenagers: Warmers: Lateral thinking
A fun activity to practise questions forms and a wide range of vocabulary.
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Lesson Share: Pictures: Musical involvement
A short activity using music which prompts discussion.
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Lesson Share: Teenagers: Sherlock Holmes
A simple and fun exercise to get students moving and practise questions.
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Teenagers: Warmers: Sherlock Holmes
A great way to get all students moving and involved in a success-oriented task.
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Lesson Share: Vocabulary: Grammar scattergories
In this exercise students come up with different words for grammar categories.
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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.