Texting a friend
Read the text message, written in 'text speak' and then try the activities.
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Learning about Wales
What do your students know about Wales? Try this lesson and help them learn more about an interesting part of the UK.
From questions to story writing
When students write a story, they often concentrate too much on the plot at the expense of grammar. This activity helps students with both.
Jigsaw reading activity
This reading and speaking activity provides practice in giving clear instructions and explaining the rules of a game. Students can then play the games as an extension activity.
Word association and story writing
This idea can help students with their writing of stories. It gives all them some essential, and some superfluous, vocabulary.
Vision off - YouTube technique
This YouTube activity really gets your students thinking creatively. A short film is played for the students, but they can’t see the scene, they can only hear it.
Ebooks
Are you for or against electronic books? In this lesson, students read about the advantages and disadvantages of electronic books. They look at language for essay writing and the informal language of blog comments.
Encouraging migration
In this speaking activity students have to look at how to encourage migration to an imaginary city. They look at a number of projects to help support this and have to agree how to allocate a budget. The activity is based on themes from the British Council OPENCities project www.opencities.eu
The noisy television
This resource is part of 'English in my home', which aims to give ESOL learners the confidence and the language to deal with situations they may encounter in their homes. in this lesson, Arjun's neighbour complains about the television. Learners practise complaining politely and dealing with complaints.