This blog has been created to serve as a humble resource for secondary school English teachers looking to make their spoken English activities more fun and creative. Rather than rigid and boring exercises, I aim to incorporate improvisation and games to encourage students to express themselves in English. I offer ideas and provide solutions. All activities are just a starting point. Teachers can adapt them to their needs.
We can use these two activities to practice the Present Simple. In the first one, students construct an essay by changing the pictures into actions and the second one as a game of bingo. We have to build our own cards or they choose a number of actions in their notebook.
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WRITING A NARRATIVE ESSAY: AN EMBARRASSING MOMENT
1. (OPENING,
sets the scene and introduce the main characters)
2. (BODY:
gives details and the main events leading up to the climax)
3. (CLOSING:
gives the ending of the story and any consequences.)
FIRST YOU MUST study these expressions in detail. Here you will find the most frequent situations that occur in the classroom and the expression that is used in each case.
After having learned the expressions, the best thing to do is to practice them. The important thing is that from now on you use them regularly in class.
Here are some common situations in which spontaneous English can be used:
YOU CAN ALSO PLAY BAAMBOOZLE TO REVISE THE MOST IMPORTANT COMMANDS
These are the most commonly used expressions in an English class. Don't hesitate to ask, answer or make observations. Please raise your hand first, respect your turn to speak and do it in English
Here is a free past simple game to help students practice forming past simple affirmative sentences. Give each group of four a set of time expression cards and a set of verb cards. Students place the time expression cards face down in a pile and deal out the verb cards equally. Players then take it in turns to turn over a time expression card from the pile and make a true past simple affirmative sentence using one of the verbs on their cards and the time expression