All Pre-Intermediate articles – Page 13
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Survival Guide: The emergency activity file
Some of our favourite activities requiring little or no preparation - designed to be used in a minor or major emergency!
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Beyond: Arts and Media: Literary lives
In this lesson, students read biographies, interview their partner and create questions to get information from their teacher.
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ArticleBusiness Top Trumps: Lesson 6: Moving premises
In the sixth lesson to accompany the Business Top Trumps card game, students discuss moving premises and decide which employees could work from home, make a decision on which department could be outsourced and practise writing an email to submit a tender.
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Business Basics: Office procedures
In this lesson by Rosemary Richey, students practise helping a new colleague with office procedures. Exercises include: identifying the correct modal verb, listening to an office conversation, giving advice and writing a set of office procedures.
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Business Top Trumps: Lesson 5: Restructuring
In the fifth lesson to accompany the Business Top Trumps card game, students discuss the financial crisis, practise writing emails, use idioms and phrases to discuss a difficult business situation and role-play a company meeting.
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Survival Guide: First classes
Prepare yourself for an influx of new students with twenty exciting activities to kick off the new term in style.
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Business Basics: Comparing products and services
In this business lesson, students practise language associated with comparing products and services in a sales context.
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Business Top Trumps: Lesson 4: Situations vacant
In the fourth lesson to accompany the Business Top Trumps card game, students discuss what skills, qualifications and experience are needed to do a particular job well, write CVs and formulate interview questions.
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Business Spotlight: The best way to say goodbye
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about starting at a company and, more importantly, what bosses should do when someone leaves their company.
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Business Top Trumps: Lesson 3: Company profile
In the third lesson to accompany the Business Top Trumps card game, students discuss what kind of company the characters work for, answer questions about the company and write a company profile.
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Business Top Trumps: Lesson 2: Company structure
In the second lesson to accompany the Business Top Trumps card game, students will complete an organogram of the fictional company, talk about their own company’s structure and invent their own cards.
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Mobile English: Secret instructions
Students use mobile phones or voice recorders to deliver instructions that include phrasal verbs/verb + particles.
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Topics: Easter
Introduce your students to the topic of Easter in this lesson, which is designed to give students practice in reading, listening and speaking.
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Mobile English: Digital word banks
Students create individual or class image banks to record the vocabulary they study in class.
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Lesson Share: Grammar: Memories of the past
Simon Mumford wins the Lesson Share competition with a unique way to help students remember irregular past tense forms.
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Introduction to Business Top Trumps
Yes, you can play card games in your business-English classroom! We all know that if students enjoy their English lessons and have fun while learning, they are more likely to retain what they have been taught.
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Mobile English: Mobile phone dictation
A short activity that can be used as a warmer or filler to review language that has already been covered in class. Any model of mobile phone can be used for this activity.
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Mobile English: Ideal phone
Level: Elementary (A2) + Interaction: pairs, groups of three, whole class Aim: To introduce the topic of mobile devices (mobile phones); to practise speaking. Language focus: present simple to describe ability and actions ( It can …, It makes …, It washes …, etc.) Technology: ...
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Lesson Share: Speaking: Making arrangements
This winning lesson by Claire Gibbs practises functional language for making plans.
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Topics: Christmas
Students are introduced to the topic of Christmas in this instalment of Adrian Tennant’s Topics series. The lesson is available at two language levels (Pre-intermediate and Intermediate +) and gives students practice in reading, listening and speaking skills, as well as exercises focusing on grammar and vocabulary.
