intended to be used mainly for aural/oral practice - some are also suitable to practise writing - under the guidance of somebody who knows English well.
Questionnaires
- for a new class of learners who have not met before (oral)
- for use by 'old' learners to find our about 'new' learners (oral)
- for use by 'new' learners to learn the ropes from 'old' learners (oral)
- for use by all learners to uncover secrets about their teacher
Written introductions
- Examples (1) of introductions written by learners after their 3rd week in Brighton
- Examples (2) of introductions written by learners after their 3rd week in Brighton
- Examples (3) of introductions written by learners after their 3rd week in Brighton
- Local Knowledge Test - identify places in your town and in your school [ Model Page ]
- Writing about 'My Town'
- Writing about 'My Country'
- Autobiographies : talking about the past (1) My first ten years
- Ask a friend about the first ten years of his / her life - question prompts
- Examples (3) of autobiographies written by learners at the intermediate level
Grammar practice -
verb tenses, adjective comparison, adverbs, prepositions & conjunctions
- Present Simple Roland's every day habits and routines - part 1
- Present Simple Hazuki's daily routine / Juan Carlos's likes and dislikes
- Present Continuous Your future plans (PC and "going to" questions with adverbials)
- Past Simple Narrative: Class Magical Mystery Tour (with question prompts)
- Past Simple Happenings: talking about the past (2) Your favourite decade.
- Mixed Tenses Role Play: assuming the role of another person. Class conversation.
- Past Simple narrative of a journey constructed through question prompts
- Adverbs of manner and frequency practised through discussion of likes and dislikes
- Adverbs of degree and reason practised through discussion of likes and dislikes
- Connectors AND BUT OR SO BECAUSE practised through joining sentence pairs and gap fill
- Adjective comparison practised through letter-writing: gap fill | letters written by competitors
- Comparison of adjectives and adverbs through short texts with question prompts | competing neighbours
- The Past Simple and The Present Perfect - differentiated, explained and practised through adverbials
- Present Perfect accounts 1 - 3 'what I've achieved in my life so far': guessing the celebrity
- Present Perfect accounts 4 - 6 'what I've achieved in my life so far': guessing the celebrity
- Present Perfect accounts 7 - 9 'what I've achieved in my life so far': guessing the celebrity
- Present Perfect accounts 10 'what I've achieved in my life so far': guessing the celebrity; key; the balloon game
- Present Perfect v Past Simple: question making with indefinite or definite time reference. Parts 3 & 1 of verb
- Present Perfect and the prepositions 'for' and 'since'
- Present Perfect and the prepositions 'for' and 'since'
- The use of 'something', 'somebody', 'somewhere', 'nowhere', 'everybody' (rather than 'All people')
- Mixed English Verb Tense practice through gap fill suitable for the intermediate level.
- English Verb Tense practice through sentence pairs - choose the most likely tense for the adverbial
- English Verb Tense practice through sentence construction using word prompts including adverbials
Pronunciation
Minimal Pairs - select the two sounds you want to compare. You can then print out the relevant worksheet onto an A4 sheet.