Here’s a sample of an activity that I’ve done quite a few times with intermediate students, although the one I’ve prepared here is more on the serious note as I usually prepare this activity with funny or rather dumb things that politicians or celebrities have said. The instructions for the flipping card activity are: Look…… Continue reading B2 Reported Speech classroom activity
https://youtu.be/ffBGrwPwi8E Serena’s blog This is a fun (real fun, promise!) grammar lesson about one of the uses of modal verbs. I know that students usually find modals boring, so this video is an activity that I thought up for my intermediate levels. We’ve done this one quite a few times, but with the exception that…… Continue reading B1/B2 How to make guesses using modal verbs
Hi there! Here’s a new video and some related activities for some extra practice. This video aims to help beginners to cope with talking about celebrations. To set an example this video is about Christmas Day, but the video is useful for almost any celebration as it deals with routines. The video has a short…… Continue reading A1/A2 How to speak about your Christmas Day
Have you ever witnessed a crime? What happened? For this activity, I’ve used a picture captured by a surveillance camera and I wrote a short description of what I thought was happening. Of course, I could not be sure, so that was why I was making guesses. In the example, you’ll see that I used…… Continue reading Modal verbs: Making a guess in the present
Here’s a short video explaining the use of ‘going to, the present continuous and will. https://youtu.be/e5_aDXUMTxA
Here’s yet another one of those kitsch videos that I have the awful habit of producing every now and then. This one’s for indirect questions. As a reminder, indrect questions are the type of questions we ask when we don’t want to be too direct; maybe because we don’t know the person very well, or…… Continue reading B2 Indirect questions
Here’s a quick, quick, quick lesson for these types of adjectives. See the presentation and after do the quiz. Careful because the quiz has nearly 40 questions and you will have six minutes to answer all of them. Do you dare to take up the challenge????
Have (got) and ‘be’ are frequently confused by beginners. Here are two (cutre) videos and two grammar activities to help students with these two verbs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFyi22nTo08 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XrNhSmI-n8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGhUMqEtSZk All three tacky videos by Serena’s blog YouTube
Here’s another quick video. This one covers the present continuous for questions. Watch the video and after you can do the activities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NNOZAZQbk8 Serena’s blog
What are stative verbs? This is important for learners that are now being introduced to the present continuous (I’m writing right now), and need to learn why they can’t say things like ‘I’m loving you’ when a famous fast food chain uses this as a slogan and a famous rock band from the 80s even…… Continue reading A1/A2 Stative verbs
