TEFL Resources and Lesson Ideas

Note: this is a splice of an activity I found in Trouble with Prepositions, Articles, Nouns and Word Order? and another I found on the British Council’s teaching English website, here. The vocabulary revised relates to household furniture.

Preparation:
Materials: whiteboard; pens; a rucksack or bag; some objects (e.g., pens, tapes - the usual equipment you might [...]

 
Note: I came up with this simple activity today. It should take about 12 minutes or so, and leads naturally into an interview-style lesson.
Materials: Whiteboard and pens.
Preparation: None.
Procedure:

Board the following, in two columns:

The place
The person
The food
The country
The animal

I’d most [...]

Notes: This is adverb placement revision and practise. It is aimed at advanced levels, or upper-intermediate, and makes use of instinct in deciding what sounds good; I’ve found that it’s good to encourage students’ language awareness in this way.

Preparation: exercises 1 and 2 below, cut up and separated, and this "adverb placement" rulesheet - enough [...]

Preparation: 3 overlong newspaper headlines of your own creation - one about a past event, one in the passive voice about a current event, and one about an expected future event - you will be boarding these, so there is no need to make photocopies for your students; enough copies for all your students of [...]

Note: this is my own idea. It comes from use of Adrian Underhill’s Sound Foundations phonetic chart and work with J Clifford Turner’s book, Voice and Speech in the Theatre, and is intended to encourage advanced level students to leave pedagogical aids behind to an extent and to personalise their engagement with English pronunciation.

Go through [...]

Note: This lesson is designed to be used with the Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.
Suggested level: Advanced.
Dictionary worksheet (1) - using a dictionary (teacher’s notes)
This is an expanded version of a simpler worksheet published by CUP and available here:
http://www.cambridge.org/elt/dictionaries/worksheets/CALD3-Worksheets/CALD3_WS_01UsingADictionary.pdf
The aims of this lesson are:
-    to raise students’ awareness of the variety of different meanings which may [...]

Note: I THINK this idea is my own; the seeds for this game come from Keep Talking by Friederike Klippel, and my own boredom with conventional "list" games (wherein students individually order a pre-defined list and then compare preferences, trying to agree a final order), which I believe are a little over-used in the EFL [...]

Note: this idea comes from Jackie Jays, courtesy of the smokers’ corner at St Giles London Central. It’s a really good one to use with new classes, or old classes with a new teacher.
Preparation: None.
Materials: whiteboard; enough whiteboard pens for each group of 3 to 4 students.
Procedure:

Tell your students that today they can ask [...]

Note: I THINK this idea is one of my own - though, like most plans, it seems an amalgam of bits and pieces from forgotten places…
Materials: copies of the limerick below for each student; a whiteboard and pen.
Pre-lesson: prepare one copy of the following limerick for each student:
There was a young lady from Niger [...]

Note: I heard this idea from Tim McLeish via the smokers’ corner at St Giles London Central.
Materials: A whiteboard and a pen; 4 slips of paper.
Pre-Lesson: write four "conflict" situations, one on each slip of paper. Situations I have used include:

Lipstick on His Collar (a man comes home to his wife with [...]