Tag: adults

Scattergories

This is a perfect game for revising any vocabulary which can be put into categories. So you can use it at the end of the year with all your students reviewing all topics from the school year or with your examination students reviewing exam topics. It can be used as a warm-up, energiser, or even the whole lesson activity.

You give students categories, draw a letter and students write down the words beginning with this letter. Here is the 'matura’ or E8 exam revision template for you to use in class. And a wheel to pick a letter. Once you generate a lot of lexical items, you have a great range of possibilities to use them on in speaking or writing. Have fun with your students.

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Tagi adults, E8, matura, vocabulary

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Noughts & crosses

An old activity which can be used in class as a warm-up or revision exercise. It has a lot of different possibilities, not only practising vocabulary. Actually, you can revise anything you want with your students. You may ask them to give definitions, to make sentences, dialogues, or stories, to give one or five examples, to speak, or to write. You can practise all sorts of vocabulary or grammar, but also language functions or different skills. There are no limits here. And the best option is to ask your students to prepare their own games. Have fun.

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Tagi adults, E8, grammar, matura, speaking, vocabulary, writing

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2 in 1 – Vocab and Grammar Revision

Autor wpisu Autor: dealwithkinga
Data wpisu 3 marca, 2023
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Another activity which can serve as a warm-up or the whole revision lesson. It’s all up to you. You can revise both vocabulary and grammar with your students at the same time.

First, show your students some examples (easier and more difficult ones are included in the presentation below) of definitions of words or phrases you want to revise – let the students guess them.

Secondly, ask your students to make definitions themselves and let their peers guess. You may ask them to make just one or two definitions if you want it to be just a warm-up; or more if it is to be a longer revision.

Then show the students these words in context and ask them to paraphrase the sentences, translate, fill in the gaps, whatever you want.

Finally, students are supposed to prepare their own paraphrases, translations, gap-filling tasks, etc with the words and phrases they prepared in stage one. Quite a challenge even for advanced learners.

Do you find this idea useful? Let me know in the comments.

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Tagi adults, E8, grammar, matura, revision, vocabulary, warm-up

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Emotions

It is a short activity which can serve as a warm-up, energiser, a short task for fast finishers or the basis for the whole lesson. It is suitable for both teens and adults on absolutely all levels.

Show your students a set of photos presenting different emotions. Identify and discuss them. Ask your students to choose one photo.

Now, the first task is to describe a situation in which their parent, partner, boss, a shop-assistant, hotel receptionist, friend, bus passenger, etc reacted in this way.

The second idea is to ask your students to make a dialogue with the prevailing emotion from one of the photos at the party, during a romantic walk, negotiating a contract with an important client, at the dentist, etc.

You can also ask your students to write a few sentences the people from the photos could be saying using a particular grammar structure you want to revise, or just change the sentences into Reported Speech.

Your students could also make sentences, dialogues, short stories based on the photos using a set of vocabulary you would like to revise.

You can also ask your students to choose two photos and tell a story which led from one kind of emotion to another one. Or even use all the emotions presented in the photos in one story.

Your students could also think of some pieces of advice they could give to the people from the photos to feel better or worse 😉

I am sure you will come up with a thousand more ideas how to use the photos showing different emotions. Let me know in the comments whether you like this kind of tasks.

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Tagi adults, Friday FABs, speaking, teens, warm-up

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Matura Christmas Set

Ho Ho Ho, Christmas is coming. And because it’s 6th December tomorrow, I have a little Mikołajki present for you. I know oral matura exam is not compulsory this year but isn’t teaching a language about practising communication skills after all (no matter the exam structure and requirements)? I prepared a version for a teacher and student so your students can actually work in pairs. I hope you will have a lot of fun, I mean 'Christmas is coming’ fun.

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Tagi adults, Christmas, exam, matura, speaking, teens

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Public houses

Surprise your students and take them on a spree to some British Public Houses. Do they know how to behave there? What to say? Are they keen on learning interesting facts about those undoubtedly remarkable places? Enjoy our new quiz and… bottoms up!

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Tagi A2+, adults, B1, B1+, B2, B2+, C1, culture, game, pub, quiz

Grammar rocks

Mixed tenses and irregular verbs

Autor wpisu Autor: dealwithkinga
Data wpisu 30 maja, 2020
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Mixing may lead to outstanding results. Have a look at my newest short presentation on mixed tenses for lower levels. Good for the revision of the main English tenses and irregular verbs, especially for students preparing for different exams. The last part includes speaking practice and thus is more creative.

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Tagi A1+, A2, adults, B1, E8, exam, grammar, irregular verbs, matura, speaking, tenses

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Exam topics

This post is useful for the end-of-year lessons. If you want to revise exam vocabulary with your students, it’s enough to pick a topic using the wheel and/or one of the ideas below to have a nice warm-up or even the whole lesson. Not only will your students have to be really creative but they will also revise exam vocabulary in context and develop their speaking and writing skills.

Challenging writing – students work in groups. Each group gets a different topic (for example group A: Health and group B: Crime). They write down 8-10 words connected with their topics. Then we give them a writing task on a totally different topic (for example Nature) and they have to write it using all their 8-10 words. Follow-up: peer correction and identifying 8-10 words.
Chain stories – students work in pairs or groups. Each pair gets a different topic and writes a few words connected with their topic. Then one pair starts a story in which they use one of their words, the next pair has to continue using their word, then the other pair does the same. We can repeat it depending on how many students we have in each group or how much time we have left.
Small talks – I ask my students to prepare 1-2-sentence conversation starters on all exam topics. Next lesson each student picks a different exam topic. Then students work in pairs (for example student A gets Sport and student B gets House). Then I give them a conversation starter on a totally different topic (for example Culture) and they have to make a dialogue trying to change the topic into theirs in a natural way. If one of them succeeds in doing it quite quickly, they other student has to try to change it into his. I set a time limit of usually 3-5 minutes. So the students have to continue till the time is up.
For other ideas see the 'Secret word’ post.
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Tagi adults, E8, exam, matura, revision, small talk, speaking, vocabulary, writing