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
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
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
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
Not all writing activities need to be essays or articles. In fact, students should get into the habit of writing regularly — if not every day, then at least once a week during an English lesson. This helps them get used to producing texts under time pressure and encourages them to share small pieces of…… Continue reading B2.1 Writing: Short Childhood Stories Using Used To, Past Simple & Past Continuous
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
A whimsical poem to practise pronunciation and intonation This sweet and rather silly poem has long been a favourite among English-speaking children, and for good reason — it’s musical, memorable, and packed with playful sounds. But beyond the fun, I truly believe that rhymes, tongue-twisters, and poetry are powerful tools to help learners improve both…… Continue reading Cultural Corner: The Owl and the Pussycat
