In this post, my students are going to practise the third conditional. They’ll listen to one of those delightfully tasteless radio contests where three speakers share their worst holiday disasters – I’m sure some of you can relate to. At the end of each story, there’s a moral… wrapped neatly in a third conditional sentence.…… Continue reading B2 Travel Mishaps & 3rd Conditional
Are your students tired of grammar gap-fills? Mine too. So I created a dramatic survival activity to practise the second conditional in a way they’ll never forget… unless they get eaten by a tiger first. The Setup The topic was “Survival” and the target grammar was the second conditional. I prepared six short, horrible anecdotes…… Continue reading B2 Survival English: Second Conditionals gone wild
How do you feel when it’s pouring down with rain?How does spring make you feel?Do you feel a tingling sense of excitement as you see the days lengthening?Or do you enjoy feeling gloomy on a grey day? Have you ever wondered how much the weather affects your mood? I’m sure your answer will be, “Yes,…… Continue reading B2 Weather Personality Quiz
If you read or heard “Plastic pollution affects our health and the health of the planet.”, what would come to your mind? Would you stop to think about all the plastic items you possess or threw away just yesterday? You might already know how plastic impacts the environment. However, could you reduce this material from…… Continue reading B2 Listening and Speaking About Plastic in the Ocean
Yesterday, I wrote a short grammar post related to all-clefts, so today we’ll be dealing with another similar content that we also use for emphasis. But first, let’s listen to this song from times when my mum would have been jiving on a dance floor, enjoying the time of her life. 😁😁😁 Like mother like…… Continue reading B2/C1 ‘What’ clefts Listening to The Romantics What I Like About You
Hi there! My students need to work on connected speech rather than just isolated items, so we’re going to shift the focus to structures such as clefts and so on. ‘Clefts’ sounds like a serious thing, but it basically relates to sentences that start with an ‘unusual word, usually for emphasis. There are different types…… Continue reading B2/C1 All Cleft Sentences All I Wanna Do IS Have Some Fun
I was so depressed when I saw the contents related to the Past Perfect. The Past Perfect Continuous was equally disheartening. I thought I had to do something much more interesting. After all, why can’t grammar be interesting or even amazing? So I found some inspiration from Cristina Cabal’s lesson using a Heyzine flipping book…… Continue reading B2 An Interactive Lesson on the Tower of London, Grammar, and Mystery
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
The sales have just started and many people see this as an opportunity to smarten up their wardrobes. Others just enjoy the challenge of finding the best possible bargains. When we talk about shopping, I usually notice something interesting. It seems the world is divided into people that love it. Then there are those that…… Continue reading B2 Personality quiz What Type of Shopper Are You?
Learning how to describe clothes is essential for speaking about fashion and style. So, in this lesson, we’ll explore the correct order of adjectives when describing clothing and practice using this rule effectively. In this post I will include: vocabulary related to materials and patterns adjectives to relate to styles word order related to adjectives…… Continue reading B2 Adjective Order for Fashion Descriptions
