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Anecdotes: Tell Your Story

July 2, 2015 · by · in Activities and Games, Adaptable Activities, Adjectives, Advanced, Beginner, Descriptions, Feelings and Emotions, Full Lesson Plans, Intermediate, Level, Past Simple, Questions and/or Short Answer, Speaking, Uncategorized, Vocabulary, Writing

Sharing anecdotes gives students a chance to speak and write confidently about topics of their choice.

Memory Challenge

February 26, 2014 · by · in Adaptable Activities, Adjectives, Advanced, Alphabet, Animals, Beginner, Body, Business, Characteristics, Clothes, Colors and Shapes, Countries, Daily Routine, Descriptions, Environment, Family, Feelings and Emotions, Film & Television, Food, Giving Directions, Holidays, Home, Intermediate, Jobs, Locations, School, Shopping, Sports and Activities, Verbs, Weather, Writing

A great game to review vocabulary for a unit or a specific topic. The more “meetings” students have with vocabulary words, the better they remember.

Describing wild animals worksheet

January 31, 2013 · by · in Animals, Beginner, Descriptions, Home, Intermediate, Worksheets, Writing

This worksheet is for practicing the component parts of animals, words such as “tail,” “fur,” and “scales,” and asks students to write sentences describing animals. By Romania PCV Jessica Brookins. There are two worksheets per page.

Active Listening with Music

August 25, 2012 · by · in Activities and Games, Adjectives, Descriptions, Feelings and Emotions, Intermediate, Listening, Speaking

Music is brought alive through this creative activity which brings art and music alive in students imaginations.

Picture This!

August 25, 2012 · by · in Activities and Games, Beginner, Descriptions, Intermediate, Speaking

Students practice describing pictures from memory in this popular speaking activity. This works great as a competition between groups!