All Intermediate articles – Page 85

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Grammar: reviewing the present simple

Present simple for habits and routines is a frequently taught item. Here are some new ways of teaching these familiar items.

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Skills: graded readers

Reading a novel is essentially a private, personal activity – but it can still provide useful classroom work . Here are some ideas for working with graded readers in class.

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Phrasal verbs: I'm going to let you in on a little secret

Another way of teaching phrasal verbs is by teaching a thematic 'set' of phrasal verbs. This lesson presents a set of nine phrasal verbs, all connected to the theme of giving and obtaining information. There is a recognition based activity, followed by a speaking activity to incorporate the phrasal verbs into use.

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Pronunciation skills: glossary - homophones

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Pronunciation skills: Glossaries

Jonathan Marks offers a helpful short glossary of terminology for teaching pronunciation: homophones, rhotic and rhythm.

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Getting to know you

To practice asking and answering personal information questions.

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Reading lesson plans: Genius

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

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General: using translation

There is a great deal of useful awareness-raising when learners compare English with their own tongue. Here are four great translation games - and they don’t even require you to speak the other language!

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General: making things last

Ever run out of things to do five minutes before the end of class? There are some fairly simple tricks for usefully extending an activity – so that things just beautifully fall into place.

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General: pairing and grouping students

With current teaching methodology teachers are constantly needing to get students into pairs or small groups. A bit of variety can sometimes raise a smile and can also help you to mix up groupings a little.

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General: planning lessons

Remember, a plan is not a route-map of what must happen in class, it is only your informed setting-up of some possibilities. Here are a few ideas for alternative plans:

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General: setting homework

Tired of setting the usual homework tasks? Here are 18 unusual ideas for "homedo" tasks.

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House and garden

A British English worksheet to unscramble the letters to name the parts of the house and garden.

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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.

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Skills: Glorious gap-fills

There seem to be an awful lot of gap-fill exercises in course books nowadays. And sometimes they can be rather dreary for students and teacher alike. Well, you could try some of these ideas.

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Grammar Games: Pub quiz—Past & Present Simple

Have your students practice Past and Present Simple with this fun trivia game.

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Grammar Games: It's So Irregular!—Irregular Verbs

Have your students practice irregular verbs in present, past, and past participle forms with this fun card game.

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Lesson Share: Memory games: The washing line

A short memory game about clothes on a washing line.