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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.

Who in your family personal subject questions games

Updated: 20th Apr. 2026 | Personalised speaking game to practise subject questions with who, family vocabulary, and housework vocabulary

Giving directions on the phone roleplays

Updated: 20th Apr. 2026 | How to give directions without being in the same place roleplays and useful phrases

Greetings mingling game

Updated: 20th Apr. 2026 | A fun stand-up card game to practise different greetings when starting and ending conversations.

Statements about language learning generalising practice

Updated: 20th Apr. 2026 | Making statements suitably strong or weak, including lots of useful generalising language and discussion of good and bad language learning.

Chairing a meeting functions and reporting verbs for minutes review

Updated: 2nd Apr. 2026 | What a chair should do, what they can say to do so, and how it can be described in the minutes of the meeting review

Cambridge B2 First Speaking Part Four on leisure

Updated: 2nd Apr. 2026 | Opinion questions on free time and hobbies from the last part of Cambridge First Speaking, including typical question stems.

Cambridge B2 First informal emails error correction pairwork

Updated: 25th Mar. 2026 | Speaking pairwork in which students correct common mistakes with FCE emails and emailing more generally.

He She It is They are drawing challenge

Updated: 25th Mar. 2026 | Present Simple of be with third person singular and plural drawing game, with students setting challenges for each other.

IELTS Speaking Part Three on relationships

Updated: 25th Mar. 2026 | IELTS Speaking questions and vocabulary on family, friends, etc

Verb plus gerund and infinitive pelmanism and snap

Updated: 25th Mar. 2026 | Verb + verb with ing and verb + to + infinitive slow and fast card games, with cards for different levels from A1 to C1.

Cambridge B2 First Writing Part One essay tasks on work

Updated: 25th Mar. 2026 | B2 First tasks on the topic of work to discuss, plan, write an introduction to, then do timed exam practice of.

Present Continuous collaborative drawing

Updated: 13th Mar. 2026 | Students make and draw Present Progressive sentences to make funny pictures, with optional common verbs, names of animals, names of places, and prepositions

Ordinal numbers drawing games

Updated: 13th Mar. 2026 | Fun drawing games to practise "first" to "thirtieth" and simple nouns and adjectives.

Relationships vocabulary storytelling activities

Updated: 8th Mar. 2026 | Oral storytelling with phrasal verbs, idioms and other collocations to talk about relationships.

Writing reviews word formation practice

Updated: 7th Mar. 2026 | Useful vocabulary for Cambridge First Writing Part 2 reviews and Use of English Part 3 word formation.

Discuss news stories with third and mixed conditionals

Updated: 3rd Mar. 2026 | Discussing theoretical opposites of true news stories with Unreal Past speaking and writing.

Requests and offers in restaurants activities

Updated: 3rd Mar. 2026 | Functional language for making and responding to offers and requests speaking, with restaurant vocabulary and situations.

Education vocabulary things in common

Updated: 3rd Mar. 2026 | Finding similarities using useful education vocabulary, with useful phrases for talking about things you have in common.

Small talk questions with how activities

Updated: 3rd Mar. 2026 | A big review of questions like "How's it going?" and "How was your holiday?" and typical responses.

Informal giving bad news phone call line by line brainstorming

Updated: 3rd Mar. 2026 | Giving bad news during casual phone calls practice by brainstorming responses and checking the hints, with many extra practice activities.

Turn taking and active listening longer phrases card games

Updated: 3rd Mar. 2026 | Basic and more complex phrases for interrupting and not interrupting card games and brainstorming

World History Third Conditional Discussion Questions

IELTS letters add the punctuation and formatting

Updated: 12th Feb. 2026 | Adding line breaks, commas, etc to IELTS General Writing Task 1 formal and informal letters, then brainstorming useful letter phrases.

Giving examples practice – Economics vocabulary

Updated: 12th Feb. 2026 | Economics vocabulary and giving examples phrases speaking practice, brainstorming and error correction.

Euphemisms simplest responses game

Updated: 12th Feb. 2026 | Fun presentation of direct and euphemistic ways of referring to things.

Colours, numbers and clothes drawing game

Updated: 12th Feb. 2026 | Students arrange cards to make silly or sensible drawings of clothes on boys, girls, monsters, etc, with Present Continuous or imperative verbs, plus an optional TPR warmer.

Good and taboo questions about Valentine’s Day

Updated: 12th Feb. 2026 | Love and relationships vocabulary practice through normal and odd questions related to Valentine's Day

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