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The Meaning of British Body Language and Gestures

Updated: 21st May. 2024 | Students try to work out and then remember common gestures and body language in the UK, useful for visitors to the United Kingdom as an interesting introduction to cultural differences more generally.

The Future in IELTS Writing

Updated: 21st May. 2024 | Different future forms in IELTS Writing Tasks One and Two presentation, with predictions, speculations, and recommendations.

The First Time/Last Time Past Tenses- Extended Speaking

Updated: 21st May. 2024 | Narrative tenses practice through the first time I... and the last time I... mini-presentations and suggested questions in a range of past tenses.

Telephoning & Teleconferencing- Personalised Practice

Updated: 21st May. 2024 | Suitable telephoning and teleconferencing practice for each student in the class through needs analysis and roleplaying the realistic situations that they describe, good for the beginning and end of courses.

Telephoning Roleplays- Future Tenses

Updated: 21st May. 2024 | Talking about future plans, arrangements, predictions and spontaneous intentions on the phone with going to, Present Continuous and will review, including roleplays and model phrases.

Telephoning Problems- Vocabulary, Roleplays and Phrases

Updated: 21st May. 2024 | Tricky telephoning situations roleplays, for more challenging and therefore interesting telephone phrases practice and useful vocabulary for talking about and during phone calls, including typical telephone phrases with key words.

Telephoning- More Difficult Roleplays and Useful Language

Updated: 21st May. 2024 | Easy and then trickier and therefore more interesting telephone language practice roleplays, good for mixed classes and telephone phrases review, ending with an optional brainstorming stage and useful phrases to use.

Telephoning- Making Arrangements

Updated: 21st May. 2024 | A fun whole class speaking activity for telephoning and making future arrangements practice in which students race to make as many new arrangements as possible while roleplaying phone calls - good for Present Continuous and future time expressions.

Telephoning in English- Discussion and Personalised Practice

Updated: 21st May. 2024 | Realistic practice of business telephoning for each member of the class through a needs analysis conversation and situations based on their own needs.

Telephoning- Errors Pairwork

Updated: 21st May. 2024 | Correcting typical mistakes with telephoning phrases communicative practice, with optional more basic error correction and brainstorming stages to help remember the correct phrases, including starting calls, the body of calls, and ending conversations.

Telephoning- Dictating & Checking/Clarifying

Updated: 21st May. 2024 | Three kinds of leaving and taking messages practice in a kind of TTT format, focussing on checking understanding phrases, ending with tricky telephoning situations to roleplay.

Telephoning- Determiners and Prepositions Pairwork

Updated: 20th May. 2024 | Grammar words in typical telephoning phrases review, starting with a pairwork guessing game and continuing with brainstorming.

Telephoning- Brainstorming Dialogues

Updated: 20th May. 2024 | Line by line brainstorming of a typical business phone call, including getting through to someone, taking and leaving messages, and checking/ clarifying, with two optional extra practice activities.

Telecommuting Policies- Roleplay Meeting

Updated: 20th May. 2024 | Roleplay meetings on the topic of working from home, good for English for HR classes and functional language for business meetings practice.

Talking about the Future- the Same or Different?

Updated: 18th May. 2024 | Future times and verb forms confusions and synonyms review, starting with a fun quick reactions game and with an optional prepositions in future time expressions presentation.

Talking about Seasons- Adverbs of Frequency

Updated: 18th May. 2024 | Talking about spring, summer, autumn and winter with frequency expressions speaking activities, including a fun guessing game and personalised practice by finding seasonal feelings, actions, etc that you share.

Talking about problems and solutions with quantifiers

Updated: 18th May. 2024 | Students practice a wide range of different quantifiers by making up problems and suggesting solutions, with suggested topics and grammar presentation stage.

Talking about future desires with 'want to'

Updated: 18th May. 2024 | Two yes/ no questions with want to personalised speaking games, including names of places practice in the second getting positive responses game.

Superlative Adjectives- Reversi Memory Games

Updated: 17th May. 2024 | A fun superlatives card game based on Othello for memorising adjectives with most and -est by guessing the superlative with the same or opposite meaning on the other side of the card.

Superlative Adjectives- Discuss and Agree

Updated: 17th May. 2024 | Students share opinions with adjectives with most and -est then try to remember and classify the superlative forms.

Subject Question Trivia Quizzes

Updated: 17th May. 2024 | Students make general knowledge questions to test each other with using the given subject question starters.

Subject Questions Quiz - People Related to Crime

Updated: 17th May. 2024 | Defining crime and punishment vocabulary through answering subject questions with "Who...?", with optional subject questions grammar presentation and crime vocabulary further practice.

Subject Questions- Personalised Quizzes

Updated: 17th May. 2024 | Three fun guessing personal information in response to subject questions games - also good for getting to know you/ classroom dynamics.

Subject Questions- Guess The Person Game

Updated: 16th May. 2024 | A guessing game for semi-free practice of subject questions, also good for describing people vocabulary.

Subject Questions- Free Speaking

Updated: 16th May. 2024 | Freer communicative practice of subject questions by asking follow-up questions after mini-presentations on the suggested topics.

Subject Questions Drawing Game with Animal Vocabulary and Clothes Vocabulary

Updated: 16th May. 2024 | Students answer subject questions based on drawings of the answers, with amusing examples like a giraffe's scarf and a kangaroo's shoes - also good for animal and clothes vocabulary.

Subject questions about this class

Updated: 16th May. 2024 | Three easy and fun subject question games based on the classroom and the students in it.

Subject Question Discussion Activities

Updated: 16th May. 2024 | Students give their opinions in answer to conversation questions where the question word is the subject, then analyse the grammar of the questions.

Subject and Object Questions- Speaking Games

Updated: 16th May. 2024 | Two communicative speaking games to practise contrasting subject questions and object questions, with a making new questions challenge and Answer Me.

Superlative Adjectives- Dice Bluffing Game

Updated: 16th May. 2024 | Students choose extreme experiences topics to talk about by rolling a dice and guess if the stories are true or not, then make similar grids to play other dice games with, with a forming superlatives grammar presentation.

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