Elementary
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ArticleStreetpets: Present simple
An information-gap activity at elementary level to practise the present simple of live and have got.
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Warmer/FillerQuestion time: wh- questions
A card game at elementary level to practise wh- questions and answers.
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ArticleGuessing and memory game: Personal pronouns
An activity where students complete sentence stems to practise personal pronouns, play a guessing game in pairs and share information in groups.
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Guessing game: would like
A guessing activity at elementary level to practise would like + noun, and would like to for groups of three to four students.
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Board game: can (ability)
A fluency-based board game at elementary level to practise can in statements, negatives and questions.
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Fifteen records
A British English worksheet to decide what 's refers to in each of the song titles.
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The last word
A British English worksheet to find the contraction that completes each pair of sentences.
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Last week: past simple
Students take part in a small group, information-gap and puzzle-solving activity to practise the past simple.
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100 years ago: Was / were
Students take part in a team competition to practise was, were, wasn’t and weren’t.
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Card game: Present simple
Students take part in a small-group card game to practise the present simple.
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Board game: Frequency adverbs
A board game at elementary level to practise the present simple with frequency adverbs and time expressions for groups of three to four students.
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Guessing activity: like + -ing
A guessing activity at elementary level to practise like, don’t like, love, hate + -ing with quite, really, at all and very much.
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Boardgame: Superlatives
A groupwork board game to practise the superlative form of adjectives.
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Mingling activity: Irregular pasts
An individual and mingling activity to practise the irregular past simple.
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ArticleFun With Grammar: Some & Any
A pairwork memory game for teenagers and adults to practise using some and any.
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Describe and grab: Adjectives
A competition at elementary level designed to practise adjectives for size, shape and colour that can be played in either groups or teams.
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Ideal room: There is / there are
Students talk about their ideal room and then compare with their partner’s using there is and there are. They end the activity with a timed memory game working in groups of four.
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ArticleGrammar: an 'A' or 'The'
Choosing the correct article - “a” “an” “the” or Ø (zero article) – is, for many students, an ongoing problem all the way from beginner to advanced classes. Here are a few quick ideas for practising them at lower levels.