Category: High School

Matching Game (flashcards)

Use this video to show students how to play the game. It is very simple!

Get more flashcards and ideas for more Flashcard games HERE.

 

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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 ....

Spelling game

I use this game with my students to check spelling of vocabulary introduced in the previous lesson.

Divide class in two teams, A and B. Divide the board in the middle. Mark each side of the board for each team.… 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

Hi, there!,
 

 

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 ....

THEATRE, a higly motivating enriching task

 

 

Our dearest playwright SHAKESPEARE wrote in his play As You Like It, this:

“All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in Read More ....

Organize your own Music Festival (Future tenses and comperatives/superlatives)

Hi 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 … Read More ....

Gossip Girl and Reported Speech

Hello,

      I’d like to share my idea to present reported speech for the first time in the classroom. It can be used with all level students. You just have to modify it according to the level.

     It is a fun … Read More ....

Create a Country

Level – Elementary and Up

Objective – Depending on the level: Vocab. Building (Demographic Country Terms)

Describing a Country – Find templates here. 

Basic question formation

Procedure – Begin the class by drawing a big map of your country on … Read More ....