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Idioms Quiz: Part 1
Print, laminate and cut out the cards. Organise the class into two teams. Take one card at a time and read out the first question (or give to the students to read). Teams must choose A, B, or C, as the answer. One point is given for a correct answer. The origin of the idiom is then read out with an additional point given for a correct answer.
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 186
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Hotel Reservation Role Play
Cut out the cards and divide them into �hotel cards� and �guest cards.�
On a board make a mind map of the kinds of questions guests and receptionists would ask each other.
Give a guest card to one student and a hotel card to another.
The student with the hotel card is the receptionist and must answer a ringing phone.
The student with th...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 182
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Weather idioms exercise with key
A small cloze exercise for advanced students complete with key and fully editable. Something I did a few years ago and it has been sitting on my PC doing nothing ever since. Not sure if some of the expressions are different the other side of the pond or not. You might need to check.
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 171
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Daily Routine
Get the students to fill in the gaps if they need to review the vocabulary or, if they don�t know the vocabulary, get them to guess the answers. This worksheet is also good for practising short form answers and asking questions with auxiliary verbs.
Key included.
Level: elementary
Age: 6-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 156
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Recycling Article FCE Word transformation Practice and Debate
An article adapted from the Guardian with a standard word transformation practice exercise included. This is followed by a controlled debate. Answer key is included.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 153
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Clothes Shopping Dice Game
Should go well with the clothes shopping role-play. Print out and laminate. Give to pairs of students with one person speaking the lines in the pink box and the other speaking the lines in the yellow. They throw a dice before starting to determine which line number to say in each section. Once they have finished, swap roles and start again.
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 152
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Danny Used to ...
Use this in class as an aide to the use of "Used to, still, not anymore." Students take it in turns to read out sentences one by one. Once all the sentences are read out, instruct them to ask questions such as; "Did Danny used to eat bacon?" followed by "does Danny still eat bacon?" etc.
Level: elementary
Age: 12-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 143
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Restaurant Booking Game and Role-Play
Pre-teach necessary vocabulary for reserving tables in restaurants and then divide your class into pairs and have them do the dice games together. Once they have practised the fixed expressions in the dice game 6 times they can then act out the role-plays.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 143
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Telephone Connection Dice Game
Select two speakers, one blue and the other yellow. They throw a dice first and then speak the line that corresponds with the number. The speakers move through the list alphabetically. After they finish, another couple start. When everyone has finished, compare how different the conversation was in content but how similar in context. Different numb...
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 142
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Adjectives of personality: Team Building
This is for business English classes but could still work with teenagers at a push. The idea isn�t mine (knicked the idea from Proficiency Masterclass from a "blind date" exercise) but the words and business English angle is. I have used this several times and not only has it gone down well but it has been easy to adapt to a role play involving scr...
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 136
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