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.
This role-play background is suitable for speaking about shopping and eating habits, for example, where students usually shop and whether they ever visit local street markets. The inspiration for this video came from a lovely visit to Kingston upon Thames, where you can spend a relaxing day wandering around, sampling food from the local market…… Continue reading Creating Immersive Role-play Backgrounds: At a Street Market
This role-play background is suitable for speaking about sport, football, sporting events or football fans, to give just a few examples. In this four-minute video, students can simulate a conversation with a football supporter while experiencing the final four minutes before Spain wins the World Cup for the second time. Well done, Spain!!! How to…… Continue reading Creating Immersive Role-play Backgrounds: At a Sporting event
This role-play background is about zoos and yes, it is suitable for all levels going from A1s to C2. How to use How to use Give your students a prompt and ask them to write a short script. Then have them perform their role-play (or hold a debate) with their backs to the screen, facing…… Continue reading Creating Immersive Role-play Backgrounds: At the Zoo
If you’re looking for a background for conversations related to health and medical care, you’ve just found it. This video shows a waiting room where some patients are waiting for their GP to call them in for their appointment. The aim is to create the experience of being in an actual waiting room while learners…… Continue reading Creating Immersive Role-play Backgrounds: The Waiting Room
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
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?
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
