A story for the card

1. Divide the class into groups of 8, sitting so they can see and hear one another.2. Give each group one pack of cards and ask a group memb...

Picture

Positive features auction

1. Tell the students that they have $10 to buy some positive features, like: honest, intelligent, humorous, healthy, beautiful, stubborn, cu...

Typical questions

1. Give them these typical questions, a four-year-old child may ask, e.g. ‘Mummy, does the moon go for a wee-wee?’ ‘Where did I come from?’ ...

At the time of the photo

1. Ask the students to bring in a photo of themselves and bring one yourself. 2. Show your own photo and say: What you are doing at the phot...

Sentence ladder

1. The teacher writes on the blackboard 6 words from the active vocabulary students have recently learnt. 2. The task of the class is to use...

Different roles

1. Write the following questions on the board: Who/what does/did your best friend want you to be/do? Who/what does/did your father want you ...

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...

Your partner story

1. Tell the students they have 3 - 4 minutes to mime their stories to their partner on the left. 2. When they are finished, ask the students...

I didn’t know that last week

1. Ask the students to remember the events of last week. 2. Tell them to write down the things they didn’t know that were at that moment, wo...

New rules

1. Divide the class in groups of four. Each group is to create a rule to be followed in their conversation, e.g.: Nobody is allowed to speak...

Finishing conditional sentences

1. Give a sentence using the first conditional, describing one of a number of possible variations, preferably based on personal taste. For e...