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
We’ve all heard the debate: Paper or screen? Print or digital? But have you ever thought about it in the most basic of places — the toilet? That’s exactly where this brilliant French commercial takes us. The short, hilarious ad shows a man trying to replace every form of paper in the house with a…… Continue reading 📱💩 Toilet Paper vs Apps? A Perfect Warmer to Talk About Paper and Digital Formats
These days we’ll be talking about shopping and consumerism in our B2.2 levels. In this level, you expect your students to gain spontaneity in speech when dealing with everyday situations. We’re going to talk about our favorite brands and advertisements that we find particularly funny. In this lesson, students speak and write about an ad…… Continue reading B2 Talking and Writing About Funny Ads
Hi there! There’s so much vocabulary to get familiar with that you will obviously need some help. So here’s a word cloud made on ‘Wordcloud.com’ and a flipping card quiz to help you remember some of the words while putting your memory to the test.
Have you ever wondered what type of music you would be if a fairy were to suddenly appear with a wand, converting you into a song or a type of music? These days we’re going to be talking about music, so this quiz is going to be a warmer as well as a form of…… Continue reading B2/C1 Personality quiz: If You Were Music, What Type of Music Would You Be?
How good is your film vocabulary? Will you be able to answer and talk about all the questions that appear in this short video? Well, if your answer is yes, well done! But if you’re not sure, you can give it a go on this four-minute video, where you can revise some of the vocabulary…… Continue reading B1-B2 Speaking activity: Talking a bit about films
In this post we’re going to see some expressions that you can use to ask about and express preferences. Pay attention, above all, to the verb patterns that we use after each verb or modal. You have a short dialogue as an example and, for some extra practice, a short activity where you must complete…… Continue reading B1-B2 Expressing preferences
Yep, it’s high time to work on those little chunks of language called collocations. Here are some of the most typical ones we would use when speaking about TV or programmes. Pay attention above all to the most common error of this level, which is the confusion between ‘see’ and ‘watch’. BTW Isn’t the couch…… Continue reading B1/B2 Collocations for TV
