Intermediate 1
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
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
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
Hi there! In this post, I’ve dusted off a post that I placed on a blog a couple of years ago by converting several of the tongue twisters into a video. By this, not only is it far more amusing for students, but you also get an AI Santa reciting the tongue twisters. ⭐ How…… Continue reading Christmas tongue twister lesson to improve pronounciation
Spread the word 🍞 — good gossip, hot news and juicy updates were never meant to stay in the fridge. In this post we’re going to see the idiom ‘to spread the word’ and I honestly think that the image already make the meaning pretty clear, but just in case you want to be sure,…… Continue reading Idiom: To Spread the word
