All Intermediate articles – Page 104
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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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Teaching English spelling: Useful Activities
An article offering suggestions for teaching English spelling from Tim Bowen.
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Minimal resources: Simple activities
These simple activities use minimal resources and can be used in any part of a lesson. They are easy to adapt (according to the class level and language point being taught) and can be used with other activities to form a full lesson, or as a 'filler' if you have ...
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General: extension activities
Ever run out of things to do five minutes before the end of class? An important lesson management skill is to make your material perfectly fit the lesson time.
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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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Exams: IELTS Academic Module: Reading
A very creative lesson plan for practising the skills of scanning and skimming texts in order to answer comprehension questions.
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Lesson Share: Speaking: A round table talk about the environment
To develop speaking skills; to reinforce the vocabulary on the topic; to encourage the students to think over and discuss the problems of the environment.
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Lesson Share: Team games: 'Seven letters', 'Winner takes all' and 'Talk about it'
Three short team activities.
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Listening skills lesson plans: Talking about people
Listening for specific information and listening for details
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ArticleWriting skills: Thinking about writing
This lesson looks at a few techniques for ‘thinking’ about writing. There are 3 tasks: brainstorming, loop writing and speed writing.
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Grammar: The past and future forms of 'be able to'
Provide students with the tools to explain reasons for absence clearly and politely.
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Speaking 9: Changing the topic
Students learn expressions for responding in conversation and changing the topic, then play a discussion game.
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Minimal resources: 8 writing activities
Adrian Tennant and Lindsay Clandfield provide us with some inspiring activities for teaching writing with minimal resources.
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ArticleMinimal resources: 8 fun intermediate and above activities
Miles Craven provides some fun and valuable ideas for teaching intermediate and above students with minimal resources.