All Extra articles – Page 9
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Lesson Share: Team games: Anagram race
An exercise which involves making short words out of a longer word.
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Lesson Share: Team games: The alphabet code
This activity is an excellent way to revise vocabulary or build up a new lexical set.
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Lesson Share: Pictures: Sounds like good advice
An exercise which uses sound effects as the basis for providing advice for problems.
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Lesson Share: Grammar activities: Can do / can't do
An activity that is likely to lead to disagreement and discussion!
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Lesson Share: Grammar activities: Chain story
This activity can be used for practising conditionals, though its different variations can serve for reviewing vocabulary as well. It helps students to link sentences in one text.
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ArticleLesson Share: Grammar activities: Secret creatures
A short grammar activity to practise the second conditional.
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Lesson Share: Grammar activities: The magic element
The aim of this activity is to work on: verb to be + name, size, color, age; has got, hasn't got, abilities, likes and dislikes.
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Lesson Share: Mingle activities: An old friend
This ice breaker works really well when you have new students joining an old class and can be used as a lively warmer to review personal questions and social language.
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Lesson Share: Mingle activities: Fish and chips
A short mingle activity using well-known word pairs.
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Lesson Share: Mingle activities: What's in a name?
An activity about stories associated with students' names.
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Lesson Share: Mingle activities: Find your partner
There are numerous variations on this but one of the most effective is to prepare a series of two-line dialogues consisting of a statement (or a question) and a response.
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Lesson Share: Mingle activities: Pronunciation 'find someone who'.
This is a familiar exercise, widely used as a warmer and a 'get to know you' exercise, but the pronunciation version is a bit different and focuses the learners on this particular aspect of the language.
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Lesson Share: Mingle activities: Question swap
This is a great way to get your students talking. It can be used as revision or to introduce a topic.
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ArticleLesson Share: Grammar activities: From me to you
This warmer is good for quick thinking and practising vocabulary, modals, passive/active, argumentative sentences, etc.
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Lesson Share: Drama: Walking in acting
A short drama activity to test students' comprehension, listening and speaking skills.
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Lesson Share: Team games: 'Seven letters', 'Winner takes all' and 'Talk about it'
Three short team activities.