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Travel Agent Complaint Dice Game
Select two speakers, one orange and the other green. 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 n...
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 112
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Burj Al Arab - Richard Hammonds Engineering Connections - plus reading
A worksheet with questions and vocabulary for a documentary that can be watched online (see the link below). You can also buy the boxset. The questions are done in blocks of 5 to 10 minutes, normally although some are longer and some a little shorter. I get the students to read out the questions and then play the clip and then pause it where it is ...
Level: advanced
Age: 11-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 14
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AI Chatbot becomes Sentient - Reading plus debate
An article from mid-2022 about a chatbot engineer claiming that software had become sentient. The reading has been adapted to resemble a CAE reading and use of English part 1 test. I have also included a short debate section. The answers are on the back.
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
Type:
Downloads: 25
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Phrasal Verbs about Entertainment
Phrasal verbs connected to entertainment in some way. First a mix-and-match with bingo cards to compliment the exercise. Then a fill-in-the-gap exercise. Then a story and a debate related to the story with accompanying personality cards to help the debate along. Answers are at the back as are extra bingo cards.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type:
Downloads: 55
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Homophone Fun 4
A short worksheet on homophones and heterographs. For students higher than upper intermediate, get them to cover up the vocabulary box below. There is also a snap card game to help consolidate. The answers are on the back.
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type:
Downloads: 34
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Homophone 2 snap
This game can only be played with even numbers.
If you have a group of odd numbers then you should join in the game to make up the numbers.
Print out the cards and laminate.
For a game of two players just give them a pack of 1 colour (yellow or red) each.
Groups of four shouldn�t be a problem.
Players put their cards in front of them face do...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: flash-card
Downloads: 14
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What does it Mean? 8
Another one in my "What does it mean" series which is done in the form of a quiz. I haven�t done one for a while, as it goes. A few words that are common enough in British English and the majority should be learned if students are aiming to pass the CPE exam. Answers at the back
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
Type:
Downloads: 34
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What was the sentence?
This is a timed conversation activity:
There are two columns on the paper; one for sentences and one for conversation topics.
Cut each section into strips and place both sections into separate envelopes entitled "sentences" and "topics."
Students are divided into pairs and then one student takes a strip of paper from the "sentences" envelope w...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 66
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Ways to Express Obligation
Another short worksheet in the form of a dice game that should prove useful in extending the range of students when they want to express obligation. Some expressions are formal and others are not quite so formal.
Level: advanced
Age: 11-100
Type:
Downloads: 38
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Black Mirror Series 3: Ep 1 Nosedive - CAE practice and Debate
A question sheet to be used with episode 1 of series 3 of Black Mirror. There are also two adapted readings in the style of CAE Reading and Use of English part 1 and part 3. If you work in China, delete or change the part about China as it isn�t very complementary about the country�s government (an article from The Sun). There is also a debate abou...
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 61
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