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Posts Tagged ‘games’

40 minute revision games - prepositions of place and movement

By Simon Thomas • Oct 19th, 2008 • Category: Creating Lessons from Scratch

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 [...]



60 Minute Limerick Dictation/Pronunciation Lesson

By Simon Thomas • Sep 23rd, 2008 • Category: Creating Lessons from Scratch

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 [...]



50 Minute Intonation Lesson

By Simon Thomas • Sep 23rd, 2008 • Category: Creating Lessons from Scratch

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 [...]