If some students have finished an exercise before the others, you can challenge them to write down 10 items of vocabulary from a previous session (colours, days of the week, household objects, anything that has recently been covered in class). If the class finishes early, you can ask a student to come and stand with their back to the board. Write a previously taught word or phrase on the board and the class has to...

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Draw a picture of a man on the board using as many of these adjectives as possible: Fat Short Hot Sick Old Rich Hungry Ugly Ask students to describe him. Write the adjectives the students came up with on the board. Draw pictures to elicit any remaining adjectives not mentioned. Teach the word ‘opposites’ by showing fat/thin, short/tall, hot/cold etc. Now give out the wordsearch and give students a time limit of 10 minutes to...

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Choose two students--a Master of Ceremonies and a Contestant. Have them leave the room. Reveal a secret word -- write it on a card -- to everyone but the two contestants. Have them come back in. The Master of Ceremonies calls on students who are raising their hands to volunteer one-word clues that might help the Contestant guess the word. When the password is guessed; the student who gave the final clue replaces the contestant....

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1. Place flashcards around the room 2. Pick a word e.g. Dog and say to the student "Fetch me the dog" 3. Student finds the relevant picture and brings it back to you. 4. Award a point for every card brought back correctly until all cards are returned.

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Write the following words/sentences on the board: "have" "sneeze" "pass" "fail" "miss" "kiss" "rain" "drop" Take an umbrella__________________________ Hurry up!_________________________________ I'm very worried about this exam. I know_______ Joe is studying very hard. I know_____________ Careful!__________________________________ Look at all that wine and food!________________ There's my sister and her boyfriend! Yuck!______ "Oh dear, ____________ . Atishoo!"..."Bless you!" Ask the class to use one of the verbs to complete the sentence. E.g. Take an umbrella "because it...

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Write the following (or similar) sentences on the board: going you tomorrow tennis to Are play ? going to Friday a new jacket buy on I'm . tonight What you to are going do ? to isn't going study He this evening . they early going to finish work Are today ? Get students to work either individually, in pairs or in a group (depending on class size and ability) and re-arrange the sentences so...

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With children, you could do this asking them to sit in a line on the floor (with a pen and paper), or with adults you could do this orally. The first student has to write/say a word, then the next student has to add a word, and so on. The aim is to get a full, correct sentence.

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