Lesson Share extras

Inside Extras

• Children

  Short 'extra' activities for use with young learners, including drawing pictures of dogs to practise making comparisons and a warmer to teach introductions.

• Teenagers

  Short 'extra' activities for use with your teenage students, including a couple of warmers involving riddles and a game with balloons.

• Debates

  Short debating 'extra' activities, including an activity where students try to convince tourists to go to their country.

• Dictations

  Short 'extra' activities based on dictations, including a picture game and a warmer using news stories.

• Discussions

  Short 'extra' activities based on discussions, including a game using proverbs and a guessing activity where students identify whether stories are true or fictional.

• Drama

  Short drama-based 'extra' activities, including an adverb game and a fun exercise in miming actions.

• Energizers

  Short 'extra' activities to energize your class, including a musical chairs game about neighbours and a more complex version of the party favourite Simon Says.

• Exchange

  Short 'extra' activities based on information exchanges, including a game involving ‘mystery guests’ and a warmer where students have to guess whether the teacher is lying.  

• Gaps and guessing

  Short 'extra' activities based on information gaps and guessing, including a detective game and a warmer/filler on telephone collocations.

• Grammar

  Short grammar-based 'extra' activities, including a chain story for practising conditionals and a warmer using noughts and crosses.

• Memory

  Short memory-based 'extra' activities, including a game about clothes on a washing line and vocabulary bingo.

• Mingle

  Short mingling ‘extra’ activities, including a ice-breaker called ‘Snowball fight’ and a word-pair game called ‘Fish and chips’.

• Others

  A selection of miscellaneous warmers, fillers and icebreakers, including a number-crunching exercise and a game to describe tastes and smells.

• Pictures

  Short 'extra' activities based on pictures, images, music and sounds, including one where students create an art gallery and an auction bidding activity.  

• Pre-reading

  Short 'extras' based on pre-reading and listening activities, including a warmer where students predict the story they are going to read.

• Spelling

  Short 'extras' based on spelling and pronunciation activities, including a warmer to recycle vocabulary and a proofreading challenge.

• Team

  Short 'extra' games-based activities to play as a team, including an anagram race and a classroom version of Who wants to be a millionaire?   

• Vocabulary

  Short 'extra' activities for grammar practice, including adaptations of pass the parcel and ‘scattergories’.