Class Handouts

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 spoken introductions to use in new classes

• 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 - use after the second week

• 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
• 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
• 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 routine / Your routine (with Question Prompts)
• 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 - 'what I've achieved in my life so far': guessing the celebrity & 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'
• 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

-----© Ted Power