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Disappearing Dialogue
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13 Jul 2010
I got this one from EFL Classroom 2.0. There is a ppt you can use to do dialogues which is cool.
Disappearing dialogues is a very much used language teaching technique
1. Elicit and write the dialogue. Or use a prepared dialogue.
2. Students practice in pairs.
3. Once they are comfortable with the dialogue. Disappear some parts. Continue disappearing more...
4. Rebuild the dialogue together to…
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Organize your own Music Festival (Future tenses and comperatives/superlatives)
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5 Apr 2010Hi all,
This lesson is ideal for pre/intermediate classes to practice both future tense and comperatives/superlatives.
First start with a quick discussion on music and the Ss's favourite singers or bands etc.
Then, tell them they're going to organize their own music festival- a very special one to their own taste. Give them the following points to think about preferably in pairs. (the focus is on the future tense)
-What kind of a music…
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Extensive Reading: Voice Diary
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12 Jan 2010
Extensive Reading: Voice Diary
This recipe works best if you combine it with Extensive Reading. It builds confidence and teaches reading, speaking, and listening
Encourage your students to make a voice diary with their cell phones. Its listed under the “Voice Memo” Feature. First you need to provide a high interest story to your students.
1. Have them read the story once quietly
2. …
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New Year’s Resolutions
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1 Jan 2010
This is a great way to practice the future tense and learn about each other. Adapted from Jill Hadfield's "Communication Games".
1. Ask students about their resolutions. Put the target language on the board - "This year, I will / I resolve to / I'm going to ..........
2. List some of the common resolutions as you discuss.
3. Students write down 3 resolutions and then…
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- Tags: agreement, future, grammar, holidays, new years, resolution
X-mas Gift exchange
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12 Dec 2009
First, come to class with some pictures you've cut out of a newspaper or magazine. Nice gift ideas. Tell the students it's Christmas and walk around the class giving items. Stop at a student, handing them the picture and say, "Merry Christmas! Students if advanced must reply with more than "you're welcome" and should use one of the ways to say "Thank you'…
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This lesson is simple and a wonderful way to celebrate X-mas.Get more resources/ideas on EFL Classroom's Xmas resource page.
1. Watch The Great Toy Robbery. Put students in pairs and have one watch the screen, the other look away. Partner A describes what he is watching to Partner B who can't see. Switch part way through.
2. Watch…
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Angel vs Devil
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1 Dec 2009
This is a great way for students to practice using sequential transitions (Firstly / Furthermore / last but not least).Great for just speaking practice but also presentation or debate classess.
Provide the class with a list of topics (City living / Exercise / Learning English / being single). Model whole class. The teacher is the Devil and the students the Angel.
1. The teacher (Devil)…
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Telling stories is great in the classroom. Add a little "imagination" and chance and you have a great recipe!
Story Dominoes is a great concept. Just get a lot of varying pictures. Cut them up and students in groups of three/four, use them to tell "random" stories.
One student turns over a card to begin. Then the next, turns over a card and continues. Lots…
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Same Sounds Bingo
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8 Oct 2009First, hand out a list of sixteen homophone pairs to your students, such as tale and tail, night and knight, ect. These lists can be readily found online or you can make your own. You might need to take some time to explain or review the meanings of words on the list. Next, give each student a standard 8.5 X 11 inch (A4) sheet of paper. Folded in half four…
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Sentence Stretching
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25 Sep 2009
This is an excellent writing exercise, getting students to increase the length of their sentences and beginning to use clauses.
Write a simple sentence on the board. Students copy it.
Ex. The dog ran.
Ask the students questions and the students after each question must rewrite the sentence, answering the question.
Ex. Where? The dog ran .............
What color of dog? The ........ dog ran to his…
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