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Make a Difference: Fridays for Future - English ESL Worksheets. Film reviews. Introduction: In this lesson learners will revise some film review vocabulary through pair-work discussions.

Film reviews

They they will write their own film review after analysing a model. Then they will read each other’s reviews and have a class vote about which film looks most interesting. Topic: Films Aims: To encourage students to join in a discussion To develop students’ writing skills To train learners to spend time planning before they write.

Age group: Teenagers and young adults Level: A2 - B2 Time: 60 minutes + Materials: Teacher's notes Film review worksheet The plan and worksheet are downloadable in pdf format - right click on the attachment and save it on your computer. Copyright - please read All the materials on these pages are free for you to download and copy for educational use only. Introduction: In this lesson learners will revise some film review vocabulary through pair-work discussions. Topic: Films Aims: Age group: Teenagers and young adults Level: A2 - B2 Time: 60 minutes + Film review. Basic vocabulary.

Word building. ONE-SENTENCE GAMES. More doesn’t always mean better. Smarter is better. One sentence may be as useful for teaching purposes as a wall of text with lots of words. My today’s post is a collection of one-sentence games (see Word Games if you’d like to try some games with words). These are games that require next to no time to prepare and might be used to help students retain new vocabulary and grammar, improve their speaking and writing, while playing around with the language. Similar to the Telescopic Text experiment, the aim of the game is to expand a phrase or a simple sentence into as long a sentence as possible by adding extra words.

Go. Snake-word. Scrabble letters. Here are some useful learning activities based around scrabble letters.

Scrabble letters

Preparation This requires a bit of time to prepare the scrabble letters but they can be used with all ages and levels so it may well be a good investment of your time. You need to prepare a set of scrabble letters for each group of 4 - 5 students. It’s a good idea to copy the letters onto different coloured card for each set. If students are working close to each other it makes it easy to separate them at the end and for tasks when you need more letters you can mix two sets together. Activities Once you have made your sets there are hundreds of things you can do with them. Spelling tests Divide the class into teams and give each team a set of scrabble letters. Conditional chain game. Circle games. They are mostly used with young learners, but teenagers will play them and so will the right kind of adult class: one that doesn't take itself too seriously.

Circle games

What are circle games? Why and when? Managing circle games with young learnersActivities What are circle games? Circle games are any games or activity that involve the whole class, sitting in a circle. Why and when? Several of the activities, such as Chain drawings and Consequences are great for when you have to do a last minute substitution class for a colleague. Back writing. This is a good activity for restless younger classes.

Back writing

Procedure Put students into teams (no more than eight or so in each team) and get each team to line up facing the board.The student at the front of each team needs chalk or a board pen. Show a word or a picture to all the students who are at the back of each line. Use a word you've studied in class, that all the students should know.The students at the back of the line should ‘write' each letter of the word with their finger, on the back of the student in front of them in the line. The students pass the letters down the line by doing the same and ‘writing' the letters in turn on the back of the student in front of them.The student at the front of the line writes the letters on the board to make the word. A few words of warning with this activity; it's a good idea to start with short words and short lines of students as it can take a while to pass the letters down the line.

Scrabble letters. These activities all use letters from the classic game of Scrabble.

Scrabble letters

IntroductionIt requires a bit of preparation to prepare the scrabble letters but they can be used with all ages and levels so it may well be a good investment of your time. You need to prepare five sets of scrabble letters (download these below). Imagine the bag of letters you get in a real Scrabble set. You always get more of the most common letters and not so many of the least common. Bear this in mind when preparing your sets. Once you have made your sets there are hundreds of things you can do with them. Circle game activities.