All Lesson Share articles – Page 12
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Lesson Share: Vocabulary: Pyramid game
This warmer is adapted from a Russian TV game show called 'Pyramid', and is a very effective way of revising vocabulary.
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Lesson Share: Vocabulary: The rolled-up newspaper game
This icebreaker practises vocabulary groups from previous lessons and gets everyone laughing and feeling enthusiastic.
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Lesson Share: Vocabulary: The Grand National vocabulary game
A fun team exercise for revising vocabulary.
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Lesson Share: Vocabulary: Memory game
A team exercise to practise adjectives (opposites), phrasal verbs, family relations, etc. which the students have learned throughout the term.
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Lesson Share: Teenagers: Fruits and vegetables
An ice-breaker exercise for practising conversation and vocabulary.
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Lesson Share: Writing: Fun with formal letter writing
A fun, interactive lesson to introduce formal letters for pre-intermediate and above. Students analyze useful sentence stems in context and then practise them with an interactive, competitive writing game.
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Lesson Share: Gaps and guessing: Flower power game
A variation on the game 'hangman' for classes in which the drawing of a hanged man would be inappropriate.
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Lesson Share: Memory games: Flash preview
A short activity to practise reconstructing a text.
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Lesson Share: Exchanging information: Identity swap
This activity is good for practising questions and listening to the answers - which students don't do all the time!
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Lesson Share: Exchanging information: Weekend game
Students find out as much information about their partner’s weekend / holiday as possible, then tell the rest of the class and answer questions.
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Lesson Share: Exchanging information: Table manners
A short activity about countable and uncountable nouns.
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Lesson Share: Exchanging information: The lying game
Is the teacher telling the truth or lying?
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Lesson Share: Exchanging information: Toilet paper information
A short activity about sharing personal information.
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Lesson Share: Exchanging information: True sentences
This exercise can produce a lot of language from the group with the minimum amount of effort from the teacher. It is designed to practise yes/no questions using various forms of the past tense.
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Lesson Share: Exchanging information: Weekend
I've used this activity many times and have found that my students thoroughly enjoy not telling the truth!
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Lesson Share: Exchanging information: Mystery guest
The idea for this activity came from an old game show. It is important to note that it can only be done at the very beginning of the first class in a new group. It is essential that the students do not know each other.
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Lesson Share: Exams: Writing summaries
To prepare students to write a 70 word summary (Use of English Part 5) and to learn how to keep to the word limit.
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Lesson Share: Exam time
In her second diary entry, Willow Vanderbosch talks about the terrors of the TOEIC.
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Lesson Share: ESOL: John and his new house
This is a lesson about how to use the Yellow Pages within the context of household problems.