Anagrams
Anagrams is the game, which is definitely one of my personal favourites. Anagrams a really fun way to review vocabulary at the beginning / end of the lesson or the week, which doesn’t require ANY preparation. The only thing a teacher needs to do is to mix up the letters of eachword they choose to…
Simple Reading Lesson Routine
Use this activity with any kind of text (an article, a coursebook text, etc.) write the title of a text on the board. Ask students where it comes from (a newspaper, a book, etc.) next, learners think of as many words as possible connected with the title. Write the words on the board. learners read…
Relative clauses
Use the following board game with your students to check their understanding of Relative clauses. There are two types of exercises: fill the gaps with the correct pronoun (which, who, where, etc.) join two sentences using the correct relative clause (Some students, who love studying, do online courses). As a follow-up, you may ask your…
Who are you?
Assign each student a secret identity (or allow them to choose one). These might have to do with a particular topic, e.g. jobs, or just be famous people of their choice. One at a time, the students enter a ‘party’ and start chatting to each other (in pairs / groups). The goal is to determine…
Picture’s worth 1000 words
As a warmer activity, you might want to show your students an unusual photo (for instance, taken from this website), and ask them to create a short story to go along with the picture. Students spend about 3-5 minutes generating ideas (either alone / in pairs/ in small groups), then share their stories. Alternatively, each…
Unscramble
After covering a grammar topic, for instance, Present Simple, prepare some sentences (about 10), and mix the words up in them. Display these sentences using an interactive whiteboard, a projector, a flipboard or just a whiteboard. The students work individually / in pairs / in small groups to unscramble the sentences. For example: like Ben…
Survey
When studying a vocabulary topic, for instance, Sports or Food, ask students to prepare a survey table (example below) of 4-5 questions for their peers. The example below is related to the Topic of Food, and practises the question Do you like…? – Yes, I do / No, I don’t. Name / Food tomatoes chicken…