All Whole Class articles – Page 90

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Grammar: regular and irregular verbs

Practical suggestions for teaching regular and irregular verbs.

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Grammar: teaching the modals 'ought to', 'should', 'must' and 'have to'.

Suggestions for teaching the modals ought to, should, must and have to when talking about suggestion or advice.

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Grammar: practising the present and past simple tenses

Imaginative suggestions for teaching the present and past simple tenses to children.

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Grammar: reporting verb patterns

A discussion and teaching suggestions for reporting verb patterns.

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Minimal resources: Photocopy-free grammar practice

Scott Thornbury gives us some tips and ideas for grammar activities that don’t require any photocopying.

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Have you got it?

A British English worksheet to find out what people in the class have got by asking and answering questions.

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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 ready to go

An American English worksheet to speak to as many partners as possible, asking and answering questions about travel plans.

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Getting ready to go

A British English worksheet to speak to as many partners as possible, asking and answering questions about travel plans.

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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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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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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: Word taboo

This activity is adapted from a popular party game.

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Lesson Share: Team games: The top twenty

This is a team exercise based around the concept of word frequency.