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Financial vocabulary pronunciation the same or different

Updated: 13th Jun. 2024 | Confusions with money and finance vocabulary related to homophones and minimal pairs review, starting with a quick reactions simplest responses game and ending with error correction.

University Applications- Tips and Useful Phrases

Updated: 13th Jun. 2024 | How to apply for courses and what phrases to use to do so, presented by students choosing good tips and then trying to remember the language related to that advice.

Unreal Past Sentence Completion

Updated: 13th Jun. 2024 | Past tenses for theoretical situations practice through three fun games, all based on typical Unreal Past sentences to complete.

Used to, be used to and get used to- discuss and agree

Updated: 13th Jun. 2024 | Students make sentences about past habits or getting accustomed to things that are true for both of them, using the typical used to sentence stems to help.

Used to, be used to and get used to sentence completion games

Updated: 13th Jun. 2024 | Used to for past habits and being accustomed practice through three fun games and typical used to sentences to complete, including finding experiences that students share, a guessing game, and a lying game.

Used to- Trivia Quiz

Updated: 13th Jun. 2024 | Students make up wrong options with used to, test each other's general knowledge, then answer grammar presentation questions about the past tense that they have just been using.

Used to/Would Speaking Game

Updated: 13th Jun. 2024 | Past and present habits verb forms speaking through a fun personalised guessing game.

Useful Phrases for Reports- Sentence Completion

Updated: 13th Jun. 2024 | Common sentences in business reports presentation and practice through gapped sentences to discuss and complete, with different ways of writing numbers and an optional extension with insurance vocabulary - good for financial English classes.

Verb Patterns

Updated: 13th Jun. 2024 | Students put cards which take the same verb pattern together, first with no help, then with tips like putting synonyms and opposites together, with verbs followed by gerund, by infinitive and by "someone".

Verb Patterns- Sentence Completion Guessing Games

Updated: 13th Jun. 2024 | Three fun speaking games for verb plus gerund, verb plus infinitive, etc, with students guessing, trying to spot lies, or trying to find things they share, with typical sentences to use each pattern in.

Verb Patterns with Reporting Verbs Activities

Updated: 13th Jun. 2024 | Five card games to practice reporting verbs plus gerund, plus infinitive, etc, with both controlled practice and freer speaking practice activities.

Verb Plus Gerund and Infinitive Sentence Completion Games

Updated: 13th Jun. 2024 | Personalised speaking practice of verb + to + verb and verb + verb with -ing, with students making sentences from the typical sentence stems in a guessing game, a lying game, or a finding things they share activity.

Verbs of Sensation- Discuss and Agree

Updated: 13th Jun. 2024 | Verbs for appearance, smell, texture, taste and sound practice with sentence stems to talk about together, write down, and compare with other students.

Verbs of Sensation- Discussion Questions

Updated: 13th Jun. 2024 | Conversation questions using and to prompt the use of verbs describing looks, tastes, sounds, textures and smells, including like as a preposition.

Verbs of Sensation Mini-Presentations

Updated: 13th Jun. 2024 | Extended speaking and suggested follow-up questions to prompt the use of verbs describing senses, including like as a preposition.

Verbs with ‘back’- Problems and Solutions

Updated: 13th Jun. 2024 | Phrasal verbs and other multiword verbs including the particle "back" situations to discuss, followed by checking their memory of which verbs have each meaning and the language of advice.

Verbs with ‘back’- Roleplays Speaking Practice

Updated: 13th Jun. 2024 | Typical sentences with verb + back to use, a test of their memory of the verbs they were just using, then situations to roleplay for freer practice of multiword verbs.

Verbs with Two Objects- Roleplay Discussion

Updated: 13th Jun. 2024 | Verb + direct object + indirect object oral practice through discussing what to do with unwanted possessions when moving house, with thirteen suggested verbs with more than one object.

Verbs with Two Objects- School Rules Discussion

Updated: 13th Jun. 2024 | Verb plus direct object and indirect object speaking practice through discussing the best rules for a conversation school, with suggested topics and verbs with two objects, then trying to remember the verbs which they could use.

Want Plus Prepositions of Position Personalised Drawing Game

Updated: 13th Jun. 2024 | Want and want to for future desires and prepositions of location practice with personalised speaking and sketching the answers.

Weather- Adverbs of Frequency Practice

Updated: 13th Jun. 2024 | Present Simple with frequency expressions and weather vocabulary speaking practice, with suggested discussion questions and vocabulary brainstorming.

Weather and Advice Practice

Updated: 13th Jun. 2024 | Suggestions phrases and weather vocabulary speaking practice, with suggested questions and weather words to ask for advice with.

Weather- Things in Common Game

Updated: 13th Jun. 2024 | Weather vocabulary word formation and weather vocabulary collocations practice starting with personalised speaking practice where students find experiences and opinions that they share.

Weather Vocabulary and Making & Responding to Invitations

Updated: 13th Jun. 2024 | Functional language of invitations and weather words and phrases, including invitations which are suitable for different kinds of weather, and using weather vocabulary to give excuses for turning down invitations.

Weather Vocabulary- Bluffing Game

Updated: 13th Jun. 2024 | Fun personalised practice of words and phrases for common and less common weather through a lying speaking game, with words that go together to describe weather presentation.

What places used to be called- Trivia Quiz

Updated: 13th Jun. 2024 | General knowledge quiz on changes in place names for fun, interesting and educational practice of used to for talking about the past, also useful for learning place names in English and their pronunciation.

What were people doing- Past Continuous trivia quiz

Updated: 13th Jun. 2024 | History trivia quiz to present or practise Past Progressive, including an optional grammar presentation contrasting Past Simple and Past Continuous, and a freer speaking stage.

Who in this class- superlatives practice

Updated: 13th Jun. 2024 | Superlative adjectives practice through students guessing and finding out who is the most extreme in the class, then trying to remember the ...est and most... forms that they just used.

Whose is this? & Whose are these?

Updated: 13th Jun. 2024 | Two personalised questions with demonstratives drawing card games to practise possessives

Wh- Questions for Making Small Talk

Updated: 13th Jun. 2024 | Open questions and question formation practice through everyday conversation questions in a TTT lesson format, also good for Social English classes and learning meeting people.

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