This exercise is to practice speaking skills. You ask students to get into pairs and to answer the questions. But they must talk for a minute:) Therefore one of them is checking the time when another is answering it. My students adore this game! It hel ...
This exercise is to practice speaking skills. You ask students to get into pairs and to answer the questions. But they must talk for a minute:) Therefore one of them is checking the time when another is answering it. My students adore this game! It hel ...
I use this with my basic class to teach simple present with a focus on habits and facts. The issue of homelessness is common enough for everyone to talk about and to have thoughts on. There is a context stage, a listening with fill in the blanks, and a ...
If you lead the Speaking club, it is a nice topic to discuss. Students mostly share their experience and knowledge. Some facts could be logically understandable or you can use this link to discover the truth: http://greatist.com/health/13-biggest-myths ...
This worksheet provides students with some useful expressions to give and ask for an opinion, agree, disagree, show interest (normal response, stronger response, when you don't understand and explain what you mean), make and respond to a suggestion, an ...
This PowerPoint Presentation is good for teens to express their opinion. Included is some helpful expressions when expressing your opinion along with several opinionated statements for your students to agree or disagree with. A fun way to execute this ...
This worksheet has students think about the idea of 'going green'. There is a short reading, some vocabulary to be introduced, a matching activitiy and finally some questions for free discussion. In addtion you could have the students first write down ...
Centres around a short reading on 'homeless spikes'. Spikes are being used to deter homeless people from sleeping in city centres and new ones have just been added in Manchester, UK. Includes a news article reading with comprehension questions, discus ...
The activities of this lesson are focused on reading and speaking and are based around a wonderful poem "Phenomenal Woman". As a warmer students look at photos of famous women and discuss what makes them outstanding, then they read the poem and fill i ...
A power point presentation with some quotes and sentences for students to share opinions about. I used it from intermediate level on. In the presentation also there are opinion sentences that can be printed. A very nice speaking activity which student ...
This is a worksheet I use with Channel One News. Before watching the news, students try to predict what the news will be about on that day in a classroom discussion. During the video, students fill in the worksheet; they take notes and write a creativ ...
This is a powerpoint I use to practise the FCE speaking parts 2 and 3 with my students. All the students can particpate in the descriptions and discussions in general. It is a whole class exercise and the students love it, because they realise they ca ...
A free-to-use ESL unit suitable for intermediate level learners. This unit includes speaking, reading, listening, vocabulary and grammar practice. Links are provided for the audio clips for the listening. This unit is part of a series from Road To Gra ...
The worksheet has been designed to aid students who are preparing for the Cambridge First Certificate test. It focuses on the speaking activities of the third and forth part of the test. The test can be either conducted by the teacher or in pairs. One ...
Listening activity using a TedEd video about music and rhythm. The multiple choice questions were copied from the website of TedEd, but a list of vocabulary and some discussion topics were added. The video is easy enough for Intermediate students, but ...
Have the students share their opinions about the items included. Hope you find it useful in speaking classes.
The comedy show "Mind your English" is the perfect tool when teaching English. The segment can be found on Youtube (the link is included into worksheet). It's a simple worksheet with vocabulary from the movie and a topic to throw a debate. Hope you'll ...
Students are supposed to work in groups of 3-4 and complete the task. The task includes sentences like ' We like.... I wouldn't prefer.... Politicians are people ...". Students are supposed to complete the sentences by using the appropriate relative p ...
This is a complete lesson that I have prepared and given to my vocational classes. It consists of a reading comprehension with vocabulary and discussion + grammar covering infinitive of purpose. You could adapt the last exercise to your needs, as it i ...
A great conversation worksheet for introducing the topic of money. It includes vocab, reading of people's opinions and a long discussion section. There is also a follow-up on some of the grammar points: the + adjective and if.. would. This w ...
A great speaking exercise to get both your shy and bold students enthusiastic about speaking English. The goal of the game is to make a 45 second improvised speech on a random topic (98 topics are provided). You get points for making a succe ...