Some training sessions leave you with notes. Others leave you itching to create something before you have even had time for a cup of tea! During our Friday session, Cristina Cabal guided us through the creation of educational apps and, me being me, I couldn’t wait one minute to put it all into practice. A…… Continue reading What Do You Do? A New Interactive App for A1 Learners
Planning a Halloween lesson for adult beginners is quite a challenge. They have plenty of ideas, but very little English to express them! This lesson combines Halloween vocabulary, an animated poem and a scary short film, with visual support to help students understand and enjoy the experience. Level: A1 — adult learnersMaterials: Downloadable worksheet, animated…… Continue reading Halloween for A1s: A Little English and a Little Suspense
Three sentences. One word.Can you find the word that completes all three? Ready? Play!
I love to have my groups take a short tongue-in-cheek personality test as a unit opener or even during those pesky last five minutes when everybody, myself included, has run out of ideas and even energy. They are fun and encourage communication, as students can discuss their answers and compare them, as well as receive…… Continue reading C1/C2 Personality quiz: What Type of Holidaymaker Are You?
A millionaire, his unimpressed wife and cats with rather ridiculous names. Welcome to a rather unusual introduction to possessive adjectives! This short animated video helps beginners practise English possessive adjectives through the possessions of a very wealthy household. For learners: Watch and listen. Who owns what? Watch again and see which possessive adjectives you can…… Continue reading A1 Who Owns What? Learn English Possessive Adjectives
Three sentences. One word.Can you find the word that completes all three? Ready? Play!
Three sentences. One word.Can you find the word that completes all three? Ready? Play!
In this lesson, my A1 students are going to learn how to talk about where they are from. For this purpose, I have created a short video where a very friendly interviewer is at Speakers’ Corner in London, asking passers-by their names and where they are from. I have only included people from Wales, Ireland,…… Continue reading A1 Talking about where we are from
In this activity, A1 students practise introducing themselves and exchanging phone numbers by role-playing a first meeting. With a little practice, students can have these exchanges as themselves. Here, however, they take on the roles of characters in a story. Watch and imagine. Play the video and ask students, in pairs or as a whole…… Continue reading A1 Conversation Practice: Meeting Someone for the First Time.
Four Minutes to Make Them Laugh Strictly speaking, this is not a role-play background. The aim of the video is to set the scene for students to tell a long joke or an amusing anecdote. If you are planning to ask your students to recount something funny that happened to them or tell a prepared…… Continue reading Creating Immersive Role-play Backgrounds: Stand-up Comedy
