TEFL Resources and Lesson Ideas

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.
Suggested level: intermediate.
Aims: to revise relative clauses in informal conversation; to practise attentive listening and polite turn-taking in informal conversations.
Materials: Whiteboard and pens.
Preparation: None.
Procedure:

Board the following, in two columns:

The place
The person
The food
The [...]

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: I found a close relation to this activity in 700 Classroom Activities by David Seymour and Maria Popova (Oxford: Macmillan, 2005)
Suggested levels: pre-intermediate to advanced.
Aims: to revise vocabulary; to practise polite turn-taking and the structures of informal conversation in English; to practise summarising information and giving opinions succinctly.
Preparation: A coursebook topic title; some questions. [...]

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.
Suggested levels: strong elementary to advanced.
Aims: to revise and practise the grammar of English question forms; to practise polite turn-taking and the [...]