Virtually Anywhere Episode 1 | Learning English PAUL: Hi Geeta. GEETA: Hello Paul. PAUL: Look, I know we haven't always agreed on things in the past ... GEETA: Well, I can't really remember us agreeing about anything. PAUL: OK, OK, and you think I'm a bit of an ... GEETA: Idiot? PAUL: Hey, that's not fair! GEETA: I'll tell you what's not fair Paul, Doctor Davis pairing me with you - that's not fair! PAUL: Listen Geeta ... GEETA: No, no, you listen. PAUL: Well it's the same for me! GEETA: Well, it looks like we're in this together then, aren't we? PAUL: Hey, of course we can get along! GEETA: You promise? PAUL: Yes, I promise. GEETA: Thank you. PAUL: No way - we should definitely do the Terracotta Army - it's amazing! GEETA: You can't be serious? PAUL: But it's a bit boring, isn't it? GEETA: No! PAUL: Yeah, me too. GEETA: Hmm, how strange. PAUL: ... in the Darwin Building at 3 p.m. on Thursday. GEETA: No idea. PAUL: It's a quarter to three - the meeting's in 15 minutes! GEETA: It depends - will you agree to study Teotihuacan? PAUL: Er, no.
WORDLESS VIDEOS FOR ELT – ELT-CATION ELT-cation is turning 3 years old this month. And that takes the cake. Or a new post. Last year I posted a few games to celebrate the occasion (see Play & Learn Games); this year I’ve decided to throw a “movie night” party and share my favourite wordless videos. These films are: short (about 2-4 minutes) highly engaging, and appropriate for learners of all levels. Such films can be used to warm up the class before your lesson begins, during the lesson – you may tie them into your lesson topic or use them to give your students a break – or at the end of class to assign a “mission” to your students (read more in READY FOR A ONE-MINUTE MISSION?). One film that is sure to break the ice and make your students give their eye teeth for yet another lesson with you is Teeth by John Kennedy & Ruairí O’Brien Trapped – A film by Joe J. The film is ideal for problem-solving sessions. Everything will be okay in the end. Unless they fall into a black hole. The Black Hole – A film by Future Shorts. Like this:
Lesson plan money - EFL Magazine Money Vocabulary Activities Large collection of money resources Money: vocabulary worksheetAnswer Sheet Money Vocabulary – Which Word Goes Best? Money conversations lesson plan Teaching dollars & coins to English learners A man without money – Listening & discussion The Black Hole – Movie lesson on money & greed Credit crunch making Britons ill – News lesson plan Countable & Uncountable Nouns- Inflation Basket Discussion How British is your Financial English? Comprehensive lesson plans on money $203,150…for a what? Get weekly articles and resources straight to your inbox Are you joining us for EdYOUfest? Millfield School, Street, Somerset, August 19th - 25th, 2018 Days Hours Minutes Seconds 60% of tickets sold Yes, I want to know more!
10 Games and Activities to Practise Personality Adjectives. Ten entertaining ways to practise personality adjectives with activities for all ages and levels. In this post, you’ll find listening,writing, speaking activities and games to help students master this vocabulary. Blog de Cristina is also on Facebook. Follow us! This is me. Ask students to work in pairs and write down as many personality adjectives as they can in two minutes. On the board write three columns: positive, negative and neutral adjectives and ask students to provide adjectives for the three columns. Roleplays Prepare cards with a personality trait written on it (talkative, cheerful, arrogant, stubborn, immature, possessive…etc). Reading your signature. What does your signature say about you? Ask students to write the sentence Write soon on a piece of paper and then sign under the sentence.Ask them to work in pairs and look at their partner’s signature and explain what it means. What’s your job? Tax inspector Teacher politician computer programmer librarian Acting out Quotes. 2. 3.
41 Flash Card Activities - Language Teaching Professionals | Language Teaching Professionals Here is my list of 41 flash card games and activities you can start using in the new year! If you have an activity not on this list, help a teacher out and leave a comment! You can also download the pdf file from my website where I go into more detail about preparing cards. There will likely be activities you’re already familiar with and many, I’m hoping, will spark your interest. 3 Types of Flash Card Activities Matching is the most fundamental activity you can do with cards. Ordering and sorting are basic activities teachers often do with cards. Discovery, or guessing, is the premise of many games you can play with flashcards. Watching children play, you will see them employing one, two, or all three of these modals in just about any activity or game they play. Flash Card Activities I call these activities, as opposed to games, as they don’t involve dice or rules of play. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. Games 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30.
10 ways to use tongue twisters in your class! I LOVE tongue twisters! Sometimes I am pretty good at them. I feel like I have an agile frog's tongue attacking sounds as they come. Other times I get so tangled I feel more like I have the dog's tongue, a useless appendage that just hangs from my mouth. OK, so we all know what a tongue twister is, but how can we best use them in class. Dictoglosses (Higher Level)I’ve mentioned using them in dictoglosses and that can work well. Divide your class into small groups (of two-three students is perfect)Post tongue twisters on the wall around the classroom (as many tongue twisters as there are groups).Explain that one person at a time can run to a tongue twister and then run back to the table. If you are looking for another oldie but goodie in the EFL world try Telephone. Have students illustrate a shorter tongue twister. and Tongue Twisters for Kids are free to download from Amazon. What about you?
Grammar – Present Continuous or Present Simple We use the Present Continuous; To talk about actions that are happening at the time of speaking. to talk about things that are happening around a present time. and etc… Follow the list for detailed expressions; Conditionals in English Zero conditional, first conditional, second conditional, third conditional. Detailed expressions and example sentences; Prefixes – Detailed Expressions A prefix is a letter or group of letters added to the beginning of a word. A prefix has meaning. Grammar Guide Punctuation rules, pronoun-antecedent agreement, capitalization rules and etc… Follow the detailed expressions; Using Come and Go in English In english, the use of “come” depends on the current positions of the speaker and the listener. Prepositions – In, On, At English prepositions; in, on, at. Present Simple Tense and Spelling Rules Positive, negative and interrogative.
Negative inversion - practice exercises Here are some exercises on negative inversion, as promised rather a long time ago. Two warm-up exercises to remind you of the principles Click and Drop - where you see this symbol ? Exercise 1 - Fill the gaps using the words in the box. ? Exercise 2 - Fill the gaps using the words in the box. ? Random Idea E Two practice exercises Practice Exercises - general principlesUnless shown otherwise in the brackets (), start each sentence with a capital letter and finish with a full stop, but don't add any other punctuation.Remember that when there is more than one auxiliary verb, only the first one is inverted. Answers Ex 1 1. has, 2. did, 3. had, 4. was, 5. audience, 6. started, 7. will, 8. so many, 9. can, 10. then, 11. before, 12. thanEx 2 1. did, 2. such, 3. else, 4. account, 5. circumstances, 6. until, 7. even, 8. would, 9. only, 10. nor, 11. nothing, 12. wayEx 3 1. Printer friendly post