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Travel Agent Mixed-Up Conversation
This is a mixed-up conversation to accompany a role play between travel agents and customers, in which the customers try to book all-inclusive holidays. Cut the slips, mix them up, and hand one or more to each student (there are 21 slips). Set up a table in the center of the room for students to arrange them into the proper order. When they�re done...
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 29
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Who Are You and What Do You Know? #1 - Death at the Circus
I had been searching for a long time for some simple to set up yet challenging "Whodunit"-type conversation puzzles, and finally came up with an idea of how to do them myself, by basing them on lateral-thinking problems. They�ve been really popular with my teenage conversation classes. This, Death at the Circus, is the first in a series. There are ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 7
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Who Are You and What Do You Know? #3 - A Man in a Bar
A man entered a bar, asked the bartender for a drink, and left much happier than when he came in. Why?
This is the third in my series of "Whodunit?" conversation games, based on lateral-thinking puzzles. In this one, there are 13 character cards, although the game can be played with as few as 9 students. (Two sets of cards are here in case you ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 18
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Family Find Out Who
Type: Full-class mingle
Ability: Elementary
Time: 30 minutes
This is pretty self-explanatory. I usually start off by drawing my family tree, and it might be helpful to have the students do the same before beginning, as it�s not always easy to count off cousins and aunts and uncles off the top of your head.
Pass out the cards, one per studen...
Level: elementary
Age: 7-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 4
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Speaking Activity: Social Media Dangers Find Someone Who
This is a speaking activity in which students go around the room and try to find classmates who have experienced any of these ten dangers of social media. When finished, discuss as a whole class what the students discovered.
The two pages are the same, enabling you to print two on one sheet of paper from the print options.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 14
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Speaking Activity: Making Driving Safer
After a tragic crash in which a young driver from our region was killed, I decided to create a lesson about how driving can be made safer. In groups of 3 or 4, students are given 20 safer-driving suggestions, and their job is to speak English with their partners and rank them from best to worst. This lesson is ideal for students who are just starti...
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type:
Downloads: 7
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Talk and Trade: Telephone
These cards might be considered �Micro Role Plays,� in that they take very little time to set up, and every student ends up doing several of them. In it, students pair up for short role plays of many different telephone situations. When they�re finished with one partner, they pair up with a different partner and continue with a new situation.
Wh...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 12
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Instant Conversation #2 - Car Sale
The is the second in a series of "Mad Lib"-type role plays I call Instant Conversations. In it, the students write the answers to simple questions, using vocabulary they�ve recently learned - not realizing they�re creating something for the upcoming role play. In the Car Sale Instant Conversation, the students are designing very unusual automobiles...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-100
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 15
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Restaurant Mixed-Up Conversation
This is a mixed-up conversation to accompany a role play between a waiter and customers in a restaurant. Cut the slips, mix them up, and hand one or more to each student (there are 14 slips). Set up a table in the center of the room for students to arrange them into the proper order. When they�re done, have students read it out loud. This becomes t...
Level: elementary
Age: 10-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 13
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Instant Conversation #1 - Alien Cocktail Party
The is the first in a series of "Mad Lib"-type role plays I call Instant Conversations. In it, the students write the answers to simple questions, using vocabulary they�ve recently learned - not realizing they�re creating something for the upcoming role play.
In Alien Cocktail Party, the students are creating alien characters for themselves, whi...
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 10
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