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Telephone enquiries - Jigsaw games

Updated: 17th Jul. 2026 | Putting an asking for information telephone call into order, then other controlled and freer speaking activities.

Number of syllables - Storytelling game

Updated: 17th Jul. 2026 | Oral practice of one-syllable, two-syllable, three-syllable and four-syllable words through making up stories.

Talking about travel - Future forms review

Updated: 17th Jul. 2026 | Travel vocabulary and different future tenses speaking

Comparing lifestyles with adverbs of frequency

Updated: 17th Jul. 2026 | Find who is healhier and other comparisons with "usually" etc personalised speaking

Cambridge B2 First Speaking Part One on work and studies

Updated: 17th Jul. 2026 | Cambridge FCE personal questions on employment and education, with typical question stems

Weather and frequency - Answers guessing game

Updated: 17th Jul. 2026 | Adverbs of frequency and weather vocabulary personalised guessing game

Word stress - Storytelling game

Updated: 17th Jul. 2026 | Words which are stressed on the first, second or third syllable speaking practice through telling stories.

IELTS Academic Writing Task 1 flowchart tasks

Updated: 17th Jul. 2026 | How to do IELTS Listening on a computer and learn from it, with useful language for Writing Task 1 flowchart tasks

IELTS Writing Task 2 on IELTS on computer Listening

Updated: 17th Jul. 2026 | Useful practice for both computer-based Listening and IELTS Writing Part Two essays

Compare different parts of B2 First Speaking

Updated: 17th Jul. 2026 | Review of the Cambridge First Speaking test with useful language for comparing, especially in Speaking Part Two.

IELTS Writing Task 2 on language learning

Updated: 17th Jul. 2026 | IELTS essay questions on good and bad language learning, including look at both sides, to what extent, problems and solutions, etc. Also good for needs analysis and learner training.

Regrets about your appearance - Unreal Past and modals practice

Updated: 17th Jul. 2026 | Should (have), wish and if only practice through the topic of how people look, including useful vocabulary for describing people

Emailing - Informal or error simplest responses game

Updated: 17th Jul. 2026 | Idiomatic emailing language and common mistakes with emailing presentation through a fun quick reactions game

Guess the sport - Zero conditional practice

Updated: 17th Jul. 2026 | If + Present Simple, Present Simple practice on the topic of sports, with useful language for describing sports, good practice for describing rules with zero conditional

Practising Quantifiers with Ladder Games

Updated: 15th Jun. 2026 | Answers to how many and how much personalised speaking game and ranking.

Technology - C2 Proficiency Speaking Part 1

Updated: 15th Jun. 2026 | Personal questions on the topic of technology, for Cambridge Proficiency and other high level classes.

There Is and There Are, with Countable Nouns - Games for Young Learners

Updated: 15th Jun. 2026 | Seven simple and fun there is and there are activities for kids, including suggested phrases

Adverbs Dice Game: Personality and Appearance

Updated: 15th Jun. 2026 | Using adverbs of degree to describe what people are like guessing, with useful adjectives for describing people and an optional warmer.

Word Formation Practice: Expressing Opinions About Health

Updated: 15th Jun. 2026 | Health vocabulary and affixes with useful words for giving opinions speaking activities.

House and Home Experiences - Present Perfect and Past Simple

Updated: 15th Jun. 2026 | Have you...? and follow-up questions about places people live, with a grammar presentation and useful vocabulary for talking about house and home

C2 Proficiency: Use of English Part Two - Phrasal Verbs Pairwork

Updated: 15th Jun. 2026 | Multiword verbs from Cambridge Proficiency speaking activity

Silent Letters - IELTS Speaking Part Three

Updated: 15th Jun. 2026 | Letters which are spelt but not pronounced in IELTS questions and answers, to help with both comprehension and production

Cambridge B2 First Writing (Part Two) - Tasks for speculating practice

Updated: 15th Jun. 2026 | Writing practice of vital speculating language for FCE Use of English and Speaking, with a review task, an article task and a report task to choose from.

Body idioms - Drawing games

Updated: 15th Jun. 2026 | Two fuin drawing activities to practise idioms which have body parts in them.

Urban development speaking

Updated: 11th Jun. 2026 | Good and bad changes to places discussion, then presentations of good redevelopment ideas.

Urban regeneration discussion

Updated: 11th Jun. 2026 | Speaking about making towns better, with useful urban planning vocabulary, and optional writing and presentations homework tasks.

Discussing language learning with cleft sentences

Updated: 11th Jun. 2026 | Speaking practice for ideas split into two clauses with verbs, with useful sentence stems and useful discussion for learner training.

Find out your partner’s whole routine: Present Simple speaking and presentation

Updated: 28th Apr. 2026 | Intensive personalised Present Simple for routines speaking

Times with Present Perfect and Past Simple things in common

Updated: 26th Apr. 2026 | Time expressions with Simple Past, with Present Perfect and with both personalised speaking and grammar presentation.

Speculating about the future, present and past

Updated: 20th Apr. 2026 | Modals and adverbs to talk speculate about the future, the present and the past review, with useful topics for all three times and elicitation of the grammar.

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