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 idea comes from Humanising Your Coursebook by Mario Rinvolucri (used with permission). I’ve found it to be a very useful way of practicing clear articulation, splitting sentences into meaningful chunks ("connected speech"), listening, writing, and various vocabulary, spelling and grammatical points.
 
Preparation: copies of a medium-length coursebook tapescript, cut into four sections of equal [...]

 Note: this idea comes from Humanising Your Coursebook, by Mario Rinvolucri. It is used here with permission.
Preparation:
Make copies of a reading passage from the last unit covered in your coursebook. I find it useful to enlarge the copies to about 110%.
 
Instructions:
Text-Stripping

Give each student a copy of the reading passage.
Ask them to delete all the adjectives;
Ask [...]