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Lesson Share: Mingle activities: Fish and chips
A short mingle activity using well-known word pairs.
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Lesson Share: Mingle activities: What's in a name?
An activity about stories associated with students' names.
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Lesson Share: Mingle activities: Find your partner
There are numerous variations on this but one of the most effective is to prepare a series of two-line dialogues consisting of a statement (or a question) and a response.
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Lesson Share: Mingle activities: Pronunciation 'find someone who'.
This is a familiar exercise, widely used as a warmer and a 'get to know you' exercise, but the pronunciation version is a bit different and focuses the learners on this particular aspect of the language.
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Lesson Share: Mingle activities: Question swap
This is a great way to get your students talking. It can be used as revision or to introduce a topic.
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ArticleLesson Share: Grammar activities: From me to you
This warmer is good for quick thinking and practising vocabulary, modals, passive/active, argumentative sentences, etc.
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Lesson Share: Pictures: Sounds like good advice
An exercise which uses sound effects as the basis for providing advice for problems.
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Lesson Share: Team games: The alphabet code
This activity is an excellent way to revise vocabulary or build up a new lexical set.
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Lesson Share: Team games: Anagram race
An exercise which involves making short words out of a longer word.
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Lesson Share: Exchanging information: Don't answer back
I got this idea from a quiz show on a radio programme last year. It guarantees confusion and lots of laughter in the classroom, perfect for teenagers.
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Lesson Share: Discussions: One minute, any topic (any time)!
This is an all-time favourite among the students I've taught over the years as it energizes students and enables students to practise listening and speaking.
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Lesson Share: Pictures: Art gallery
A fun warmer where students create an art gallery on the board.
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Lesson Share: Pictures: Auction game
This exercise involves students bidding on items in an auction, and is good for writing practice and discussion.
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Lesson Share: Memory games: Clap back
Clap back is good for breaking the ice in a lesson, getting a little energy into the classroom, improving pronunciation and developing general memory skills.
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Lesson Share: Spelling: Spelling ball
A simple and very fun game that warms students up and encourages creativity and correct spelling.
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ArticleLesson Share: Teenagers: The balloon game
A fun game to energize students and foster cooperation / team spirit.
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Teenagers: Warmers: The balloon game
A fun way to introduce a new topic and to foster cooperation and team spirit.