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 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 [...]
