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Activities for Conversation Class – INTERMEDIATE LEVEL (PART I)
A PICTURE’S WORTH Give each student an unusual photograph and ask him/her to create a story go along with the picture. After students have planned their stories, have them share their pictures and their stories. CONVERSATION REDO Students identify a conversation in their past that was unsuccessful, perhaps when they were first learning to speak…
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Activities for Teaching the PRESENT PERFECT PROGRESSIVE (PART II)
MUST BLUFF Pairs of students ask each other if they have been doing certain activities for specific lengths of time. “Have you been studying English for 3 years? Every S2 must always answer “yes” to the questions they are given. S1 must determine if their partner is telling the truth of bluffing. Award points for…
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Activities for Teaching the PRESENT PERFECT PROGRESSIVE (PART I)
IT SEEMS LIKE FOREVER Write several time phrases on slips of paper (for 2 weeks, last year, for my whole life, etc) and put them in a hat. Each student draws a time and then expresses an activity he has been doing since that time or for that length of time. STATIVE VERBS Stative verbs…
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Activities for Teaching the PAST PERFECT (PART II)
JUST DONE Each students write out some things that he’d just done for each hour during the day. Example: “I’d just woken up at 6 a.m I’d just finished my breakfast at 7 a.m” REPORTED SPEECH When using reported speech, verb tenses change. Any verbs expressed in the simple past in the original statement will…
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Activities for Teaching the PAST PERFECT (PART I)
TIME FLIES Write several past times on small slips of paper and put them in a hat. Students draw a past time and then state something they had already done by that time using the past perfect and including “already”: “I had already applied to school in February.” RECENT EVENTS What things have your students…
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IDIOM ACTIVITIES FOR ESL/EFL STUDENTS (PART II)
MIXED UP IDIOMS Write some original sentences with unusual/interesting idioms, transfer them to index cards (1 word per card). Pair of students get a set of cards, unscramble the sentence and guess the meaning of the idiom. Students write their own sentences on index cards and exchange with a partner, unscramble. PHOTO FINISHES Give students…
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IDIOM ACTIVITIES FOR STUDENTS’ CREATIVITY FLOWING (PART II)
GESTURES Write each idiom on an index card, shuffle them. Students come to the front of the room, choose a card and act out that idiom. The rest of the class must guess which idiom it is. ORIGINAL IDIOMS Students create their own idioms. For their nonliteral phrase, students describe the situation and draw a…
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IDIOM ACTIVITIES FOR STUDENTS’ CREATIVITY FLOWING (PART I)
BACK TO THE SOURCE Can your students tell a creative story that shows how the idiom could have come to be? Groups of students get a choice of idioms and write a short story illustrating how each idiom came to be, then illustrate their stories. PICTURE PERFECT Students choose an idiom to illustrate and divide…
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Classroom MANAGEMENT Mantra ^_^
Found these some MANTRAS from of of my favorite TEACHING website. Trying my best to spell all the mantras when I’m teaching as good as possible ^_^ DO: Use ROUTINES and RITUALS Increase SELF-ESTEEM with praise and encouragement Show your students that you CARE about them Try to be a ROLE MODEL CHANGE it…
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Activities for Conversation Class (PART II)
1. Creative Improvisation Write your current vocabulary words on index cards, and have students pull two or three cards. 2 students improve a dialogue, each racing to use his words in an appropriate context first. The first one to use all of his words wins. 2. Mystery Partner Have student 1 role play the host…