Are you planning to get your students to speak about what frightens them or tell a scary anecdote? Here’s a background that could make the activity more engaging by transporting learners from the classroom to a scary and maybe, haunted house. How to use it You may have been teaching how to write stories or…… Continue reading Creating Immersive Role-play Backgrounds: Scary room
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XqEdBvTpM0 Are you planning to get your students talking about books and reading habits? Here’s a background that could make the activity more engaging by transporting learners from the classroom to a beautiful old bookshop, with some relaxing music to help set the scene. How to use it At the end of a unit on…… Continue reading Creating Immersive Role-play Backgrounds: At the Bookshop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9bdazpquiQ Want your students to chat about holidays and leisure? Here’s a background that could make the activity more engaging by transporting learners from the classroom to a holiday swimming pool. How to use it At the end of a unit on holidays, tourism or leisure, tell your students that they are relaxing by the…… Continue reading Creating Immersive Role-play Experience in the Language Classroom: at the swimming pool
AI-generated Image. Two women happily chatting while grocery shopping together in the chilled foods aisle. Are you planning to get your students talking about their shopping or eating habits? Here’s a background that could make the activity more engaging by transporting learners from the classroom to a real-life setting. How to use it At the…… Continue reading Creating Immersive Role-play Experience in the Language Classroom: at the supermarket
For this lesson on healthy lifestyles, I will start by introducing the expressions ‘too much, too many and not enough’. For this purpose I have created a video where different people interact using these expressions. But maybe it would not be a bad idea to remember what countable and uncountable nouns mean before we dive…… Continue reading A2 Too much, too many & not enough
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?
