Grammar |
BACK TO SCHOOL Ice-Breakers |
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Trevor Hawes |
Grammar |
Alternative hangman |
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Angus Savory |
Grammar |
Chains |
There are two main types of chains; the first kind is a sentence containing a particular grammar poi... |
Angus Savory |
Grammar |
Find someone who? |
This is a typical Monday morning warmer, where the students have to wander around talking to their f... |
Angus Savory |
Grammar |
Grammar auction |
Most teachers learn about the grammar auction during their initial training, but just in case you fo... |
Angus Savory |
Grammar |
Unfinished sentences |
It is generally agreed that students focus more on a particular structure during either written or o... |
Angus Savory |
Grammar |
Student need to SWRL every day |
The domains of language acquisition, Speaking, Writing, Reading and Listening need to be equally... |
VerĂ³nica Bernadette Rivera Perez |
Listening |
Making listening tasks easier, part 1 |
There are several ways to alter a listening task to make it easier. First you have to decide what th... |
Angus Savory |
Listening |
Making listening tasks easier, part 2 |
There are several ways to alter a listening task to make it easier. First you have to decide what th... |
Angus Savory |
Listening |
Making listening tasks easier, part 3 |
Problem The listening task is too easy. Solution Make the task more difficult. If you w... |
Angus Savory |
Listening |
Radio news |
A very useful source of authentic listening material is radio news. Most countries have an English-l... |
Angus Savory |
Listening |
Television news |
At the start of a news broadcast, there is usually a preview of what is to come, along with pictures... |
Angus Savory |
Listening |
TV Dictation |
Have students focus on the dialogue contained in a scene by listening for particular vocabulary word... |
Trevor Hawes |
Pronunciation |
Combining vocabulary revision with pronunciation |
One way to ensure students can identify and recognise a particular sound is to play this game based ... |
Angus Savory |
Pronunciation |
Homophone story |
Homophones, as we all know, are two or more words which have a different spelling but the same pronu... |
Angus Savory |
Pronunciation |
Phonetic dominoes |
Are your students bored with boring pronunciation exercises? Try this as a possible solution. We... |
Angus Savory |
Pronunciation |
Practising sentence stress and intonation |
Write the following sentences on the board : 1. I think Oxford is so boring! 2. I don't b... |
Angus Savory |
Pronunciation |
Shortened sentences |
To sensitize students to the idea that meaning can be judged largely by intonation can be illustrate... |
Angus Savory |
Speaking |
A quick warmer |
Lost for a warmer first thing in the morning? Well, with zero preparation you can walk into the clas... |
Angus Savory |
Speaking |
Another quick warmer |
A warmer with no preparation time needed, and which always gets a few laughs is the non-stop speakin... |
Angus Savory |
Speaking |
Dominant students in speaking activities |
Sorry about the long-winded title! Okay, so you want to have a speaking activity, maybe a debate or ... |
Angus Savory |
Speaking |
Stories from nothing |
Here's a nice 'trick' to play on a student, which also gets a good story from a cl... |
Angus Savory |
Speaking |
Giving and receiving blind instructions |
Most students will use their English over the telephone, and using a foreign language over the telep... |
Angus Savory |
Speaking |
Picture differences |
You know when you were young and you had these puzzles where there were two pictures, identical, exc... |
Angus Savory |
Speaking |
Picture ordering |
Get a cartoon story made up ideally of as many pictures as there are people in your class, or of at ... |
Angus Savory |
Speaking |
Television adverts |
These can be used in a number of ways with classes. I approach them as part of an advertising &rsquo... |
Angus Savory |
Vocabulary |
Call my bluff |
This game is as old as the hills and a bald man called Robert Robinson has hosted a TV show with thi... |
Angus Savory |
Vocabulary |
Collocation and Idiom in L1 |
If you are dealing with monolingual classes and are interested in teaching collocation, the first th... |
Angus Savory |
Vocabulary |
Formal and informal language |
A Job Interview "Alright Mr Jones?" "How's it going Mr Bradshaw?" "Sit down." "Cheers."
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Angus Savory |
Vocabulary |
Pete's hidden word game |
This game can be a lot of fun when you have an animated class. You choose one word for each member o... |
Angus Savory |
Vocabulary |
Vocabulary revision |
Remember, studies suggest that 80% of what someone has studied is lost from memory within 24 hours. ... |
Angus Savory |
Vocabulary |
Receipts |
Receipt roleplays When setting up a shop roleplay, instead of using character cards, hand each pa... |
Angus Savory |
Vocabulary |
Silent Movie |
With audio off: -Have students predict the situation and characterizations based on viewing an en... |
Angus Savory |