Planning a role-play activity in your language class? Try adding an immersive background like these rows of popcorn munchers sitting in rows, totally immersed in what might be a drama movie. I already wrote a post of why I’m using backgrounds in my role-plays which you may want to check on the link below Creating…… Continue reading Creating Immersive Role-Play Experiences in the Language Classroom: At the cinema
Planning a role-play activity in your language class? Try adding an immersive background like this romantic seaside restaurant at sunset. By adding movement and sound, the experience becomes far more immersive—and the difference in student engagement is immediate. What is the goal? To help learners move away from focusing on their language performance and towards…… Continue reading Creating Immersive Role-Play Experiences in the Language Classroom: Seaside Restaurant
For years, I’ve used images in my classroom to support role-play activities. A simple picture of a restaurant, a TV studio, or a waiting room can already help learners step into a situation. I realised back then, that just by changing the setting, made a huge difference in how learners approached this activity, and also…… Continue reading Creating Immersive Role-Play Experiences in the Language Classroom: Chat Show
Is there a special person in your life? I’m pretty sure there is and today we are going to speak about this person. Before we discuss this person in detail, we need to learn some vocabulary first. We should also revise the vocabulary, right? Family and close people vocabulary I’m sure you already know many…… Continue reading A2 Speaking about ‘That Special Person’
In this post, students will learn how to speak about situations that make them happy and situations that annoy them. To start off, look at the following illustrations. What’s happening in each illustration? Which situations do you think would make you happy, and which situations would make you feel angry? 2. Match each panel with…… Continue reading A2/B1 What Makes You Happy & What Makes You Angry?
In this post, learners will find a short and simple explanation of how to use these three modal forms. Flip through the slides, and then do the grammar activity to make sure you have these structures under your belt. Activity: Guess the Stories Look at the cartoon panels and guess what happened in each one.Use…… Continue reading B1/B2 Modal verbs: can, could & to be able to for ability
What’s your day like? Do you get up early? Do you drive to work? In this lesson we’re going to see and revise vocabulary related to daily routine and we’re going to listen to people speak about what a usual working day is like for them. First of all let’s brush up on some collocations…… Continue reading A2 Daily Routine & Comparative adjectives
Do you like going shopping? Do you like going to the sales to look for bargains? I bet you do! In this post you are going to hear somebody talking about something she bought at the sales. But guess what? Something went wrong. The woman in the pictures below went to the sales. She wanted…… Continue reading A2 Connecting sentences, Speaking, writing and Listening: A Woman Went to The Sales
In Spain we have a saying that says ”Ver la botella medio llena o medio vacia” when we refer to how different people see aspects of life differently. In this I’m going to teach ‘will’ for predictions to my As and for this I have set up some new contents and I will also use…… Continue reading A2 Are you an Optimist or a Pessimist?
In this post, we’ll listen to a podcast and talk about career choices. First, look at the image. What types of jobs are represented in this picture? What type of job can you relate to? Next up is a short personality quiz to get you thinking. Speaking about your result on the quiz Do you…… Continue reading B2 Listening and Speaking about Career Choices
