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Teaching toolGrammar Practice (A1): How many siblings have you got?
Encourage your students to talk about their families with this engaging speaking activity.
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Teaching toolEmotional Treasure Hunt
Boost your students’ vocabulary and speaking skills with this engaging board game.
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Teaching toolGrammar & Vocabulary Practice: How were you feeling?
Reinforce the use of verb to be in past tense and help your students talk about thier emotions with this useful worksheet.
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Teaching toolGrammar Cards: Pronouns and Personal Titles for Talking About People
Help your students practise talking to and about people using different pronouns and personal titles.
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Teaching toolGrammar Cards: Describing Objects, People & Places
Help your students practise describing objects, people, and places with this set of descriptive adjective cards.
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Teaching toolGrammar Cards: Irregular Verbs in Past Participle
Help your students learn the past participle form of irregular verbs.
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Teaching toolGrammar Cards: Regular Verbs in Past & Past Participle
Help your students learn the past & past participle forms of regular verbs.
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Teaching toolGrammar Cards: Irregular Verbs in Past
Help your students practice talking about Past Actions using irregular verbs.
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Teaching toolGrammar Cards: Talking About Habits & Routines
Help your students practice discussing Habits & Routines using different verbs, time expressions, and frequency adverbs.
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Warmer/FillerYoung Learner Topics: Santa Claus Gets Stuck
Get your Young Learners to talk about Christmas with this fun story about Santa Claus.
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Cambridge English First: Use of English: Language focus: Time expressions
This lesson aims to help students prepare for the key word transformation section of the exam (part 4) by focusing on time expressions with the present perfect.
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Mingling game: Present simple and continuous
A whole-class mingling game to practise the difference between the present simple and continuous.
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Card game: Present simple
Students take part in a small-group card game to practise the present simple.
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Ideal room: There is / there are
Students talk about their ideal room and then compare with their partner’s using there is and there are. They end the activity with a timed memory game working in groups of four.
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Explain! Past perfect continuous
A speaking card game at intermediate level to practise the use of past perfect continuous.
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Experiments: Pay-me game
Students complete exercises on related vocabulary, sentence order and where to use the infinitive / gerund, and design a poster. Key vocabulary and practical teacher’s notes are included.
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Lesson Share: Grammar: Pawn shop
Maria Sándor’s winning lesson incorporates a role-play that practises both negotiation skills and the present simple vs present continuous.
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Experiments: Water purifier
In this experiment, pupils observe how dirty water can become clean using a few simple pieces of equipment. Students complete gap-fill exercises to practise related vocabulary and identify mistakes in a series of images relating to the experiment. Key vocabulary and practical teacher’s notes are included.
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ArticleExperiments: Matchbox paddle boat
In this experiment, pupils learn about the build-up of stored energy and its subsequent release by building a boat powered by an elastic band. Students complete gap-fill and matching exercises practising related vocabulary and the first conditional before placing a sequence of images relating to the experiment in the correct ...