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Posts Tagged ‘question forms’

Speaking/Writing: Lists with a Twist (30 minutes or so)

By Simon Thomas • Sep 28th, 2008 • Category: 4 - Intermediate, 5 - Upper-Intermediate, 6 - Advanced, Creating Lessons from Scratch

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 [...]



Interview Lesson (50 minutes to 1 hour 30 mins)

By Simon Thomas • Sep 28th, 2008 • Category: 2 - Elementary, 3 - Pre-Intermediate, 4 - Intermediate, 5 - Upper-Intermediate, 6 - Advanced, Creating Lessons from Scratch

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 [...]