When did you last.....?
A simple speaking activity for low level learners to practise using the past simple.
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To catch a thief: past simple and past continuous practice.
Students write a short article about a robbery to practise the past simple and past continuous.
Role play
A role play activity that allows students to decide the outcome.
Storylines
A speaking and listening activity to help learners practise narrative tenses for storytelling. Aimed at lower level learners and above.
Describe a picture
In this lesson, students use their drawing and speaking skills to practise the present continuous form. Drawing adds fun to the activity and may allow less confident students to excel, especially if they are talented artists. An optional writing activity at the end helps consolidate learning.
Presenting a personal history
This lesson focuses on the past simple, past continuous and past perfect tenses in the context of biographies and culminates in students giving a short presentation about a famous person.
A birthday party
This lesson is based on a video about a child attending a birthday party in the UK.
Talking about the future
In this simple lesson students will have a chance to speak freely about different aspects of their future life, while the teacher guides them (with the students' help) to the best available grammar forms in order to do so.
Yesterday
In this lesson students practise forming, asking and answering ‘wh’ questions in the past tense. They play two games and do a mingling activity.
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.