Things USED TO BE different before

Use these cartoons which are good example of the life BC (before computers), when you want to practice USED TO + inf with your students.

Create a Christmas greeting

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MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!

Winter worksheets

Zero and first conditional Christmas

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GRAMMAR TIC TAC TOE

This game is my all time favorite. I've picked it up from a seminar and used it with my students for practicing asking YES/ NO questions. It can be used as an ice breaker, time filler, warm up activity, follow up activity. And the best thing is- you don't need any preparation. So, whenever the students ask for a game, I pull up this out my sleeve.

The procedure:

-Draw a tic tac toe grid on the board and ask the students to provide activities that you write randomly in the grid.(read a book, watch TV, do the dishes...)

- Tell the students they are playing against you. (They'll love it!)

- Depending on what you want to practice, you explain to your students that they are going ask you YES/NO questions about the activities in the grid(Can you...?, Did you...? Do you...?) and promise them you'll be honest.

- As in each tic tac toe game the signs are dots and crosses. Let the students decide if they get a point (cross) whenever your answer is "yes" or "no". So they should do some thinking connecting the activities in the grid and yourself- how will they win .(Can the teacher do all this things on the board- if you practice CAN; Did the teacher do this things last weekend- for past simple etc.)

- When you set up this, you start the game. Random students ask you a question usig the activity in the grid, you answer honestly and either they get their mark in the grid or you get yours.

-The winner is the first that makes a line or has more fields with their sign.

HAPPY TEACHING!

IT'S COLD- YOU SHOULD PUT ON A T- SHIRT (-:)

I used the weather and clothes vocabulary for this communicative game to practice SHOULD. I made two dice with the help of the great site for teachers- MES English.

 The rules:

- Students work in pairs.

-Each student throws both dice trying to get suitable combinations of weather and clothing.

-The student makes sentences with the pictures on the sides of the dice he gets. (If they have sun and sandals- It's sunny. You should put on your sandals).

- For each funny combination and a correct sentence ( It's cold. You should put on your T-shirt.)- they score one point.For each suitable combination and a correct sentence, -two points. For each incorrect sentence- zero points.

At the end, ask the students to write three of their best pairs of sentences in their notebooks.

Lyrics training

This is an interesting site where your students can practice listening, song dictation, fill in gaps. Choose from the large number of songs. My choice is the song "I'll be there for you" with some good lines for practicing superlatives.

The Rembrandts - I'll Be There For You, Music Video, Song Lyrics and Karaoke