All Upper-Intermediate articles – Page 74
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ArticleGeneral: the first lesson of the year
Even if the teacher and class have all worked together before, it is still useful to have activities to welcome everyone back and mark the start of the new year.
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Lesson Share: Memory games: Flash preview
A short activity to practise reconstructing a text.
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Teaching writing: the forgotten skill
Advice and suggestions about teaching writing in the English classroom.
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Grammar: the syntactic function of -ing forms
An article discussing the syntactic function of -ing forms.
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Grammar: -ing forms and post modification
An article discussing -ing forms and post modification.
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Lesson Share: Teenagers: Fruits and vegetables
An ice-breaker exercise for practising conversation and vocabulary.
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Are you a learner of the future?
Students talk about possible future developments in education and decide whether or not they are already a ‘learner of the future’.
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ArticleLesson Share: Writing: The reporter game
A game in which students create stories for an imaginary newspaper.
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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: Memory games: The washing line
A short memory game about clothes on a washing line.
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Lesson Share: Memory games: What did you do?
When the class is feeling bored, here is a game they can play in groups or as a class.
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Lesson Share: Team games: Who wants to be a millionaire?
This is a fun way of revising multiple choice questions based on the TV show 'Who wants to be a Millionaire?'.
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Lesson Share: Team games: The top twenty
This is a team exercise based around the concept of word frequency.
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ArticleImaginative materials: teaching with party games
In many parts of the world the end of the year is the season for parties. And in class, the last lesson of the year often has a party atmosphere. So, to help things go with a swing, here are three classic party games adapted to be a little more ...
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Skills: Glorious gap-fills
There seem to be an awful lot of gap-fill exercises in course books nowadays. And sometimes they can be rather dreary for students and teacher alike. Well, you could try some of these ideas.