The third Monday of January is considered to be the most depressing day of the year. But does it really have to be so blue?
This is a lesson that involves a lot of speaking, a reading on different colour idioms and some tips on how to beat the blue Monday blues. Hope you’ll enjoy it and make blue Monday a little more colourful.
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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!
I’ve just gathered a few of my Christmas activities in one place for you to enjoy during your last lessons before or first lessons after Christmas. All of them can be found on wordwall. Short, quick, can be used as warm-ups, energizers or fillers. Suitable for teens and adults on different levels.
CHRISTMAS CATEGORIES
Students have to put the words and expressions into 4 different categories: Christmas decorations, traditions, food and winter time.
CHRISTMAS MATCHING
Students have to match the pictures to Christmas expressions.
CHRISTMAS QUIZ
Students have to choose the correct answer. It’s a typical vocabulary game.
CHRISTMAS PHRASAL CRAZE
This time we deal with grammar, and to be more precise with phrasal verbs. Definitely for more advanced students.
CHRISTMAS SPEAKING
And the last exercise is devoted entirely to speaking. Could be used as a typical work in pairs or speed dating activity.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
I hope you will find those activities useful, still this year or maybe in the future. I’d like to wish you all the best. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
This is a lesson inspired by Sylwia Clayton’s Lesson Starters. Since autumn is coming, the days are getting colder and it’s harder to warm up a little bit, I guess coffee is a perfect lesson topic. You will find a lot of questions for discussion, a Kahoot game on how much you know about coffee and some quotations about coffee that your students will be able to reflect on. Your students will practise mainly speaking but also a little bit of grammar (conditionals). I hope this lesson will cheer you and your students up during the gloomy days of autumn.
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So why don’t you spark your students’ curiosity, enhance their language skills, and make learning an espresso-licious adventure! Don’t miss out—grab your brew-tiful coffee-themed lesson today and inspire your students like never before!
This is a task for more advanced students – starting with good B1+ up. I would like to thank Monika – the author of 'That is evil’ blog because I first came across the idea of malaphors on her blog a couple of days ago and I fell in love with the idea immediately. I had so much fun making my own malaphors that I thought my students could also enjoy it. So I prepared this presentation. It consists of 3 parts – first students have to identify the full idioms hidden behind the malaphors and their meanings and think what a new idiom might mean, then they have to coin their own malaphors and finally they are supposed to make (orally or in a written form) dialogues or stories that would illustrate the new meanings of their own malaphors. You can always ask the rest of the group to guess the brand new malaphors on the basis of their friends’ stories.
NOTE: You need to use the slide show option in order to reveal the idioms and their meanings gradually.
My E8 students are kind of fed up with grammar and vocabulary revision. No wonder, it’s already mid-June. So I’ve decided to devote the last lesson to speaking mainly. All conversation questions go with the exam topics. Some of them are really challenging but I’m sure our students will manage. If you still want your students to revise vocabulary or grammar while practicing oral skills, you may always ask them to prepare a word cloud to a particular question or use a certain grammar structure while giving opinions.
This is a ready lesson on Mindfulness. All you need to do is click on the link in the shop and use the presentation in class. The students will discuss mindfulness, do the reading task, enrich their vocabulary, involve all their senses. There are also 3 videos recommended which you can use as an idea of a flipped lesson, do in class or set as homework. This is not an easy lesson but my students enjoyed it a lot. I do hope yours will do as well.
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I personally hate questions such as: 'How did you spend your last weekend?’, „What interesting did you do yesterday?’. But we need to practice past tenses with our students. This exercise is ideal for a warm-up. Ask your students to choose one famous character (real or fictional) and a picture that would illustrate the way the character could spend their last weekend. Students work in pairs. One is a famous person, the other a journalist who has to learn as much as possible about the celebrity’s weekend. They talk. Then the journalists share the most interesting facts about their celebrities with the rest of the class.