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...

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. ...

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...

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 ...

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...

I remember

1. Tell the students about an accident or an illness, starting most of your sentences with: I remember... ing...2. Put these sentence starte...

Eatable vs. uneatable

1. The teacher asks questions, such as: Can we eat a hotdog? Can we eat a dog? etc.2. Student answer: Yes, we can? No, we can’t.

My thingumajig

1. The teacher explains that the students must guess the name of an object by making questions about how the object is used, using can. Beca...

Things people do to you

1. Put this verb list up on the board: advised / forbade / warned / compelled / persuaded / encouraged / begged / taught / tempted2. Ask the...

Conflicts

1. Ask the students to think of times when they have an inner conflict between what they want to do and what they must do. Get them to tell ...

My district

1. Learners get into groups according to where they live. Two or three is probably best.2. Explain to the learners that there will be a comp...

What can you buy?

1. Ask students to think of 3 objects they can buy for 1£. 2. Tell them to continue this task with 5£, 10£, 50£, 100£, 500£, 1000£.

Oh!

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

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...

Associations

1. Prepare a pile of smallish pictures depicting objects, animals, scenes. You can use simple drawings; but color photographs cut out of mag...

Oh!

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

What am I doing?

1. Tell the students that you are going to imagine yourself being somewhere else and doing something else. 2. Students try to guess, e.g. Yo...

Sensory styles

1. Write down on the blackboard: 0 = can't at all; 1 = hardly; 2 = pretty good; 3 = easily.2. Tell the students that you are going to te...