BBC Ideas have a wonderful series of short ‚What if…‘ video explainers. In the listening comprehension worksheet below on the video ‚What if everyone in the world planted a tree? students are asked to listen for numbers and to complete if-sentences type II with information they hear on planting trees to reduce greenhouse gas emissions…
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This video shows how you can practise if-sentences type I as a speaking exercise. It combines controlled grammar practice with an element of spontaneous and free speaking. It comes with a worksheet with the topic ‚Autumn Activities‘ (Link below), but you can easily create your own worksheet around a different topic. I got the exercise…
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Practise using simple past and present perfect questions by playing the battle ship game. This motivating grammar and speaking activity can be played online or in class. You may download our worksheet centered around the topic ‚healthy lifestyle‘ (link below) or you may create your own battle ship game including words and phrases you have…
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The days leading up to Christmas and the Christmas holidays are always very, very stressful for me, unfortunately. So I didn’t get round to posting Day 24. I’m really sorry about that. Now it’s Jan 19, and I’ve just finished creating a lesson unit for my year 8 Gym students (English Level B1/B2) and so…
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Friendly Neighbours – Borrowing Ingredients I know, it’s way past the 23rd! As you can tell I was kind of running out of steam just before Christmas. So I still owe you two exercises. This one I just created for my year 5 students (1st year of English) to practise the structures „Have you got…?“…
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Seattle, Washington – Top 5 Travel Attractions Travel Guide – Speed Reading Competition Online-teaching is the perfect opportunity for you to help your students train their pronunciation. All you need is a short video clip (about one minute long) together with the transcript, et voilà, you have a pronunciation exercise. In an online-class, your students…
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New York City Travel Attractions – Ellis Island in NYC (Listening & Presenting) My students and I love these short travel videos bygeobeats. By now my students can do a perfect impersonation of Naomi, one of their travel hosts.For Day 21 I’ve got a listening comprehension worksheet for you to go with a travel video…
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Communicative Grammar Practice – Past Progressive With this worksheet you can help your students practise the difference between past progressive and simple past actively. It transitions from controlled to more free practice, where students can answer using their own ideas. My students find these type of communicative grammar exercises always more useful and fun than…
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20 Weird things ONLY British people do! By English with Lucy Are you also one of those over-preparers? We cannot create the perfect worksheet or grammar exercise every day. Sometimes we need exercise ideas that are simple, don’t require much or any preparation, that are effective, and give us a break. So browsing on YouTube…
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Change a Word This is a very simple creative exercise where students rotate sentences and each time change one word in the previous sentence. They might start with a sentence such as „I broke my leg when I was skiing“ and end up with „Peter shaved his head when he was showering.“ I love simple…
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