Follow the intonation

1. Teacher gives out the cards with sentences of different intonation patterns. 2. Students are to pronounce them right.

Team arithmetic

1. The teacher asks arithmetical cross-questioning, e.g. What are seven and four? or What is three times five?2. The first student to answer...

Arguments

1. Divide the class into two even groups and give the topic of the discussion, for example 'Should prisons be abolished?'2. Group A ...

No mistake!

1. Ask students to enumerate the letters of the alphabet. 2. If a student makes a mistake he or she is out. 3. The game can be played in tea...

Oh!

1. Give the students a series of exclamations ('Oh!', 'Ah!', 'Great!', etc.), and ask them what they think has just ...

Tennis elbow foot

1. Student A says a word. 2. Within a strict time limit (say three seconds), Student B must say a second word that connects with the first i...

Express your view

1. Near the beginning of term, tell the students that you want each of them to be ready to talk for exactly four minutes on a subject they c...

Proverbs

1. Prepare individual copies of a list of well-known proverbs using the present simple. 2. Read through the list of proverbs with the class,...

How often do we do it?

1. Put these lists upon the board: buy - a magazine, a book, a lipstick, a pair of shoes, hi-fi equipment; borrow – money, pens, ideas, clot...