Finishing conditional sentences

1. Give students only the if clause of a conditional sentence: If I go away on holiday this year ... and invite them to compose their own en...

Mad discussion

1. Divide the students into teams. One student from each team comes forward. 2. They have 3 minutes to argue about which is more important f...

Last year's feelings

1. Ask the students to write down one thing that happened to them last year in each of the following months: January, April, July, October. ...

New words

1. Ask each student to prepare one new word that is the most interesting for him for each lesson. At the lesson students write these words o...

What she’ll do if...

1. Pair the students. Ask the pairs to work simultaneously and think up 5 actions A might mime doing to B and 5 actions B could mime doing t...

Three of a kind

1. Ask each student to write down the titles of three books that have affected them. Alternatively, they could choose three public figures, ...

Je ne regrette rien

1. Put the following list on the board: Your school. Your job or occupation. Your friends. Your habits, e.g. smoking, exercise, eating, etc....

Was my teacher like that?

1. Prepare a set of statements about yourself at the age of 8-10. Here are four about Mario: I used to read a lot. I'd often feel angry ...

Definite position

1. Ask students to write as many words where a letter is in the third position as they know. 2. Then ask students to write words where a let...