Category: Advanced

Dictogloss

Dictogloss is an activity that works with many short texts/passages. I’ve used it over the years and it seems to motivate and “work” because there is a built in task — the task of reconstructing the original text.

1.Let students … Read More ....

Running Dictation

# 96 Running Dictation

This activity can be used with any level – just use an appropriate text. It is great for introducing a text that you will study in depth through intensive reading. Or it can also be used … Read More ....

Disappearing Dialogue

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 Read More ....

Great Projects to Learn English: Create your English Game

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Last year, I asked my students to do the following project: CREATE YOUR ENGLISH GAME! It was a hard task, but so REWARDING!!!!!!! Because of that, I’ve just decided to share this interesting useful IDEA with other students Read More ....

X-mas Gift exchange

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 … Read More ....

Great Toy Robbery

This lesson is simple and a wonderful way to celebrate X-mas. Get more Xmas video ideas on ELT Buzz’s  Xmas video page.

1. Watch The Great Toy Robbery. Put students in pairs and have one watch the screen, the other … Read More ....

Angel vs Devil

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 … Read More ....

Story Dominoes

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 … Read More ....

Accents

Exposing students to a wide range of accents of both native and second language speakers is a recipe that must be cooked up for intermediate and advanced learners.

One great place for this would be The Speech Accent Archive . … Read More ....

Sentence Stretching

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 … Read More ....