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Lesson Share: Pictures: Dialogue in music

This simple activity uses a piece of instrumental music to create a dialogue.

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Lesson Share: Team games: Vocabulary definitions game

This game is a good way of revising vocabulary from the previous lesson.

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Lesson Share: Debates: Where to sit

The class attempts to reach a consensus on where everyone should sit.

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Lesson Share: Dictations: A two day in five

A short dictation for listening and vocabulary building.

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Lesson Share: Discussions: Important dates

Students ask and answer questions about six important dates.

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Lesson Share: Miscellaneous: Number crunching

A warmer / lesson filler involving making sentences from numbers.

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Lesson Share: Teenagers: Noughts and crosses

A warmer/lesson filler activity to revise vocabulary from previous lessons in a fun, stress-free, game-like way.

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Teenagers: Warmers: Noughts and crosses

A fun way to revise vocabulary from previous lessons.

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Lesson Share: Energizers: Crazy counts

Here's a super-simple way to review numbers. It works nicely at the beginning of class, even while students are entering the classroom.

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Lesson Share: Pre-reading: Making connections

A fun and useful activity where students are encouraged to predict the story they are going to read.

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Lesson Share: Pre-reading: What is the connection?

Learners have to find the connection that links words together in this pre-reading exercise.

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Lesson Share: Energizers: More complex 'Simon Says'

A higher level adaptation of a well-known game.

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Lesson Share: Miscellaneous: When friends come to visit

If you teach English as a foreign language and are lucky enough to have a friend from home visit you, why not use them as a class resource?

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Lesson Share: Gaps and guessing: Telephone collocations

Here is a warmer or filler I've used for telephoning in business English.

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Lesson Share: Energizers: The circle game

This game can be used to revise vocabulary or as a means of learning new words. Its main function, however, is as a physical activity designed to get the students moving around and revive tired minds.

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Lesson Share: Exchanging information: Circle game

Students find things they have in common.

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Lesson Share: Exchanging information: Life circle

Students are often curious about the life of their teacher outside their professional role, and this activity is useful for opening up to a new class as a person, and not just as a teacher.

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Lesson Share: Children: The line up

A fun, energetic warmer to review 'What's your name?', or similar questions with very young children.

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Lesson Share: Children: What can your favorite character do?

To review can and can't for ability with a range of action verbs.

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Lesson Share: Pictures: The character of music

A fun activity in which students pair up pieces of music with adjectives.