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Superlative speaking cards – Who’s the … student in class?

In: All Ages & Levels

26 Apr 2013

This is a fun follow-up speaking activity for practising superlatives. Make cards with superlative form of personality adjectives. The number of cards depends on the number of the students in the class. Distribute the cards so that each student has one. They should answer the question: 'Who's the ... student in the class?' following the format: I think/believe/hold that the ... student in



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Blank Dialog Videos

In: All Ages & Levels

26 Jun 2012
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The blank dialogue is a very "natural" teaching approach. Something intuitive about it. I used it in my early days of teaching - just pausing a dialogue on cassette tape and asking students to respond. You had to get skilled with using those big buttons! That is what being a teckkie used to entail!



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Story Dominoes

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15 May 2012
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This is a very simple idea that works to help students talk about events and narrate a story.  

Write many ideas / vocabulary on the board, all over the board. 

ex.  A girl in pjamas,  a ball,  Thursday,  green,   Last night,  the President,  kill,  Oh, it is beautiful.  etc.... 

Start by telling the beginning to any story. Just a few lines. 

ex.  There was a…

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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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Angel vs Devil

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1 Dec 2009
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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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SCC – Student Created Content

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23 Nov 2009
I'm a big fan of student created content. That's my own term for resources which aren't from the textbook but from the student's own aprior knowledge, world and mind. Personalized teaching. Students create the materials for learning/practicing English. In doing so, they are more interested in the topic because it is from themselves and also they have the necessary context to prompt output / speech. Find many examples by clicking…

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Backdoor – a great teaching technique

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12 Aug 2009

Mr. Bean works well with this technique.

Backdoor is a technique where in pairs students sit back to back. One student watches the screen and describes the action. The teacher can write vocab. on the board to prompt student talk. Continue for a few minutes then pause the video and the pairs switch positions.

Continue and then watch the end of the video together, describing without the sound.

This works well with 3-7…

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Describing your apartment

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8 Aug 2009
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This is an excellent way to get students speaking and to practice "home" related vocabulary and prepositions. 1.  Warm up by quizzing students about prepositions. Take a pen and place it around your body. Ask, "Where's the pen?".  Place it in some funny places! 2. In pairs with a pen, students practice and do the same as modeled by the teacher. 3. Draw a floor plan…

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Who would win – Mighty Mouse or Superman?

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19 Jul 2009
In the movie Stand by Me, there is a scene where the boys debate who would win in a fight, Mighty Mouse or Superman. This inspired me to do the following lesson: All that you need for this is a stack of index cards, each with the name of possible combatant written on it. For example: samurai, tiger, battleship, pro-wrestler, ninja. Make at least 30 or 40 cards. Mes English…

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