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Posts Tagged ‘vocabulary’

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 [...]



Listening/Speaking: 4-Way Dictation

By Simon Thomas • Oct 2nd, 2008 • Category: Using Coursebooks Creatively

 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 [...]



Grammar/Vocabulary Revision: Text-Stripping

By Simon Thomas • Oct 1st, 2008 • Category: Using Coursebooks Creatively

 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 [...]