Classroom Activities
In this section you will find a wide range of classroom activities sent in by contributors around the world. Click the links below to select activites under each topic area.
Telephone Number Pronunciation  
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This activity practises discreet vowel sounds. It practises both speaking and listening skills. It works well in pairs or in groups and usually generates lots of fun.

Average: 2.9 (27 votes)
The Sinking of the Third Conditional  
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I use this activity primarily as a way to consolidate the form of the third conditional, invariably at the end of the first lesson in which students meet the form, or at the latest the one after.

Average: 2.9 (12 votes)
A Reading Task and Role Play  
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Here is an activity to challenge the students' reading skills at intermediate level and give them controlled speaking practice in a role play. The learners have to put a jumbled conversation into the correct order and can then act it out in pairs. The conversation takes place in a Travel Agent's.

Average: 2.5 (22 votes)
Creative group writing  
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This activity really makes writing in class fun. I have used this activity for years and it has always been a hit. It's good practice for writing creative stories using narrative tenses.

Average: 3.4 (34 votes)
Choosing a house  
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I use this activity with higher-Elementary level students, primarily to practise vocabulary and collocations related to house and home, but also as an early confidence builder for speaking skills.

Average: 3.4 (39 votes)
Gap fill poems  
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I like to use this activity to introduce poetry into the classroom and to raise learners' awareness of the beauty and fun to be had with poetry. It can also be used to practice learners' pronunciation.

Average: 3.2 (100 votes)
Amazing facts  

This activity is designed to be used as a warmer for Intermediate level learners. It could be used to generate interest in amazing facts as a lead in to a lesson using comparatives and superlatives.

Average: 3.3 (79 votes)
British and American English  

This activity is designed to be used when teaching or practising the difference between British and American English vocabulary.

Average: 3 (67 votes)
Revision chocolate bars  


This is a version of the popular game Battleships. In this version, instead of blowing up battleships, teams have to find hidden 'chocolate bars'. I usually do this on the whiteboard.

Average: 3.5 (34 votes)
Grass skirts revision race  

This activity gets the students motivated with a competitive revision race.

Average: 3.6 (21 votes)
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