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Integrated Skills and Speaking
Learners participate in a game in which it is a foreign holiday and many things go wrong. They have to work together to resolve the difficult situations.
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Integraded Skills and Speaking: Speed-Dating
Young scholars practice speaking and using adjectives to describe someone's character. They also revise question formation structures.
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Integrated Skills and Speaking: Blankety Blank
Students are given a list of vocabulary words and asked to divide them into positive and negative feelings. They play a game using the vocabulary words.
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Cartoon Stories
Students write a cartoon story as a whole class, then in small groups and for homework as individuals. They practice asking and answering questions about location and time sequences.
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Dictionary Bluff
Middle schoolers practice their dictionary skills by participating in a game of words with correct and incorrect definitions. They must work in pairs to determine the incorrect definitions and uses for a word.
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Collaborative Story Writing
Students participate in a collaborative story writing activity. In small groups, students each write three sentences, adding on to the story when it is their turn, then peer-editing the story and presenting it to the class.
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First Class Mingle
Students participate in a mingling speaking activity. They write a question for each person in the class on separate worksheets, then speak to everyone in the class to find out as much information as possible about each other.
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Computer Vocabulary Game
Students participate in a communication activity that combines general speaking with the acquisition of computer terminology. In small groups they play a computer vocabulary game by filling in the blanks and providing vocabulary words.
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What's in a Name?
Students read an imagined profile about themselves written by a new teacher. They find definitions for words they do not explain and then explain to partners what is or isn't correct about their profiles.
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Sentence Structure Game for Complete Beginners
Learners play a card game with color coded words to create sentences that are correctly structured. They listen to a sentence dictated aloud and recreate the sentence using cards. They create sentences for partners to represent with cards.
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Vocabulary and Language Function Game
Students work together in teams to play a game to discover definitions of words and their language functions.
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Dreams
Students read poetry about dreams and determine the different types of dreams people have, such as the images in sleep, or as goals.
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Ordering a Pizza
Students role play ordering a pizza focusing on requests and vocabulary including numbers, money and food. They brainstorm food items and create the menu. Using virtual money, they order and fill out a spending worksheet.
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Environment Debate Game
Young scholars participate in a role-play activity to discuss environmental problems on which they have previously conducted research.
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Love And Marriage Vocabulary And Discussion
Pupils brainstorm and practice using vocabulary about love and marriage using invented stories or personal accounts. They give and ask for advice and create a story with a partner.
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St Valentine's Board Game
Students divide into small groups to play a St. Valentine's Day board game that presents vocabulary related to love, romance and marriage. They follow the directions and participate in conversations inspired by the game.
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Circles of Similarity
Students work in pairs to design a Venn diagram of their likes and dislikes. They use the diagram to generate sentences that include statements of disagreement and agreement.
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Blackboard Baseball
Students create review questions and answers based on information they have been studying, then play a review baseball game.
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Using Pictures in the Classroom
Learners review vocabulary by answering questions about an image, drawing the picture and taking notes. They compare their pictures and describe the differences.
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Multiple Choice Board Game
Students are read a list of statements or questions that illustrate a target grammatical structure. They discuss the statements and questions in groups and decide on an answer or response that they then present to the class.
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Christmas Board Game
Students play a Christmas themed board game to review holiday vocabulary. They practice their fluency by talking in small groups about whatever the board game square topic brings up for no less than two minutes (or they must move back 3...
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A Recipe for Success
Learners discuss favorite recipes from their home countries and help each other to generate the correct sequencing and grammar for the recipe. They write out the recipe using imperative and passive structures.
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FCE or CAE Cloze Practice Games
Students play a "Disappearing Sentence" memory game with a sentence from an exam paper. They write cloze tasks for each other to practice for the exam.