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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.

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.

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