All Upper-Intermediate articles – Page 75

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Lesson Share: Gaps and guessing: Hitting the headlines

This activity works well because it is creative without being overly demanding, and it has the effect of making students feel important by raising the ordinary, day-to-day events of their lives to the status of headlines.

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Lesson Share: Gaps and guessing: Human interest

This is a good way to get students speaking at the start of a lesson, since human interest stories are often short but engaging, so there is a natural curiosity among students to find out what actually happened.

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Lesson Share: Gaps and guessing: Thoughts that help us to live

The students really enjoy this activity when I introduce a topic for discussion e.g. biography, character, famous personalities and some others.

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General: using translation

There is a great deal of useful awareness-raising when learners compare English with their own tongue. Here are four great translation games - and they don’t even require you to speak the other language!

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General: making things last

Ever run out of things to do five minutes before the end of class? There are some fairly simple tricks for usefully extending an activity – so that things just beautifully fall into place.

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General: pairing and grouping students

With current teaching methodology teachers are constantly needing to get students into pairs or small groups. A bit of variety can sometimes raise a smile and can also help you to mix up groupings a little.

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General: planning lessons

Remember, a plan is not a route-map of what must happen in class, it is only your informed setting-up of some possibilities. Here are a few ideas for alternative plans:

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General: setting homework

Tired of setting the usual homework tasks? Here are 18 unusual ideas for "homedo" tasks.

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Pronunciation skills: Glossaries

Jonathan Marks offers a helpful short glossary of terminology for teaching pronunciation: homophones, rhotic and rhythm.

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Pronunciation skills: glossary - homophones

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I was going to, but…

A British English worksheet to invent sentences using picture cards as prompts.

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Skills: graded readers

Reading a novel is essentially a private, personal activity – but it can still provide useful classroom work . Here are some ideas for working with graded readers in class.

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Grammar: Reporting verbs

To get students practising and using reporting verbs.

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Grammar: Wishes and regrets

Practise expressing wishes and regrets, reading for specific information, dialogue building, fluency.

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Lesson Share: Grammar: Personality traits

To consolidate understanding of adjectives to describe people's qualities.

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Lesson Share: Vocabulary: Grammar scattergories

In this exercise students come up with different words for grammar categories.

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Grammar: 'unless' and 'if'

An article explaining the difference in meaning between if and unless in conditional sentences.

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Grammar: 'them' and 'they'

An explanation of the use of them and they in different contexts.

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Grammar: modal verbs may and might

An article explaining the difference between the modal verbs may and might.

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Grammar: word order in passive questions

An article offering an explanation and teaching suggestions on word order in passive questions.