All Pre-Intermediate articles – Page 63
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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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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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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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ArticleGrammar 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.
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Lesson Share: Memory games: What did you do?
When the class is feeling bored, here is a game they can play in groups or as a class.
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Lesson Share: Team games: Who wants to be a millionaire?
This is a fun way of revising multiple choice questions based on the TV show 'Who wants to be a Millionaire?'.
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Lesson Share: Team games: The top twenty
This is a team exercise based around the concept of word frequency.
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ArticleImaginative materials: teaching with party games
In many parts of the world the end of the year is the season for parties. And in class, the last lesson of the year often has a party atmosphere. So, to help things go with a swing, here are three classic party games adapted to be a little more ...
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Lesson Share: Miscellaneous: The smell game
I call it the 'smell game' but it also introduces how to describe tastes.
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Lesson Share: Vocabulary: Pyramid game
This warmer is adapted from a Russian TV game show called 'Pyramid', and is a very effective way of revising vocabulary.
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Lesson Share: Vocabulary: The rolled-up newspaper game
This icebreaker practises vocabulary groups from previous lessons and gets everyone laughing and feeling enthusiastic.
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Lesson Share: Vocabulary: The Grand National vocabulary game
A fun team exercise for revising vocabulary.
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Lesson Share: Vocabulary: Memory game
A team exercise to practise adjectives (opposites), phrasal verbs, family relations, etc. which the students have learned throughout the term.
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Are you a learner of the future?
Students talk about possible future developments in education and decide whether or not they are already a ‘learner of the future’.
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Looking into the future
A British English worksheet to find the missing words to complete predictions.
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Functional language: Riding the metro
A functional language speaking lesson by Lindsay Clandfield, where students practise giving directions for a metro system in a city.