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Ordinal Numbers Dice
These are two dice for teaching or revising ordinal numbers related vocabulary at elementary level.Students are asked to to roll both dice and then make a sentence by using the picture clue provided.
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Women's Wear Decoding Activity
This is a decoding activity for teaching clothes related vocabulary .Recommended for elementary students who are asked to use the hints in the decoder at the top of the page to help break the code and...
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How to Teach Reading Skills: 10 Best Practices
Reading classes are often very…quiet. Of course, people are reading, and we generally don’t hold conversations and read at the same time. And we teachers usually like quiet classrooms, seeing the quiet...
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5 (Not So) Surprising Factors that May Affect Your ESL Students’ Test Scores
When ESL students don’t do so well on the test, what do you think? That they didn’t study? It’s not that simple. Although no one questions the importance of preparing for a test, success in passing or...
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How to Teach Grammar: 5 Best Practices
I remember my reaction the last time I was assigned an intermediate ESL grammar class: “Oh, no! Not again.” Not another semester of faithfully following the course syllabus and distinguishing for weeks...
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Organize and Mobilize: 3 Ingenious Ways to Plan Productive Lessons
Lesson planning can sometimes be a source of stress and insecurity among teachers of all stages, but it doesn't have to be a struggle. The following tips will give you an opportunity to look at...
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I Hate to Bother You But: 5 Fast Activities to Practice Polite Requests
Do your students know the following expression? ‘It’s easier to attract bees with honey than with vinegar.’ Write this proverb on the board and talk about what they think it means, then tell them the...
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Loch Ness Webquest
This worksheet is a webquest about Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster. Students look up information on a website and practice their reading skills (scanning/skimming). The sheet is meant for intermediate...
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Song Worksheet: Eight Days a Week by The Beatles
This worksheet is an introduction to the days of the week. It also provides some background information about The Beatles and uses their song 'Eight Days a Week'. Students need to fill in the missing...
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Modal Verbs: Explanation and Exercise
This worksheet can be used to explain what modals are and how we use them (with many examples.)The road signs can be used to elicit sentences using modal verbs, for example: You can park here. You...
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Learning English: Speaking Activity
This is one of the speaking activities that I've prepared for intermediate and upper-intermediate level on my own in order to improve their speaking skills. English is one of the most widely language...
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Months of the Year and Seasons
This is a worksheet to review the months of the year and the four seasons. The kids have to put the months in order (by filling the little boxes with the correct number for each of the 12 months of the...
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Teen Stars That Love Dogs
This is a worksheet for elementary or pre-intermediate teenage or young learners. The activities in this worksheet should help the learners practice and improve their reading skills. The text itself is...
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A / An / Some / Any
It's a full-page colourful grid explaining the basic uses of a / an / some / any which includes examples of all the cases considered. I created it in order to help my absolute beginner students anchor...
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Groundhog Day
Some Funny presentation for elementary students. Cool images will help young students easily to understand new material. Children can learn new words and expand their vocabulary (shadow, woodchuck,...
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St Nicholas Day
Powerpoint presentation about St Nicholas Day, favourite children's holiday. It develops speaking skills and gives information about this holiday. The vocabulary is completely connected with Christmas....
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Present Continuous Charades
This is a charades game to practice the present continuous. The question to ask is "What are you doing?" and one of them has to pick a card (they can be cut up and laminated for best results) and...
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Song Worksheet: 93 Million Miles by Jason Mraz
The activity is built around the song by Jason Mraz called "93 million miles". I thought it would be a nice idea to work with some general knowledge on the Solar System and then have students interpret...
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Love and Relationships Speaking Cards
Cards to cut. Pair work or Whole Class Activity. Min. 1 minute to talk:) Example: What is your idea of a perfect date? Describe it.
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Family: Picture Description
This is a set of pictures about a family to describe them. There is also a list of words that students should use. I don't give it to them, it should be part of the pre-teaching. I use these pictures...
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