Tag: speaking

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 … Read More ....

Really simple to do.  Just play a clip of a movie and prepare some discussion questions on powerpoint.

Questions can be simple comprehension or can be more indepth, it’s up to you.  You can put students in pairs, small groups … Read More ....

This small group discussion game is excellent because students talk about their own lives and the other students ask further questions and become really curious.

Use these cards. Model with the whole class by giving selected students cards and … Read More ....

Different students volunteer to be asked questions. They must avoid saying the words “YES” or “NO” for a given period of time e.g. 1-2 minutes.

This is done by using expressions like: “I do”, “I am”, “that’s true”, “that isn’t … Read More ....

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 … Read More ....