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Dating Game

January 3, 2016 in Activities / Discussion tagged dating / future / groups by David

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Gilligan’s Island

January 3, 2016 in Activities / Discussion tagged conditionals / convincing / groups / suggesting by David

Persuade the others to buy your items. If you sell everything, you win! Use comparatives and superlatives to sell your items. Choose which items to buy based on your shopping list. An activity for 3-4 students. FULL-SCREEN

Do You Want to Buy a Monkey

January 3, 2016 in Activities / Discussion tagged comparatives / convincing / groups / suggesting / superlatives by David

Can you find what’s different? Describe your picture. Listen to your partner’s description. The difference is sometimes obvious, but often it is in the details. STUDENT B: click here Welcome to ESLdocs – a free teaching resource STUDENT A: click here

What’s the Difference?

January 1, 2016 in Activities tagged describing / pairs by David

Working with your partners, look at the pictures and rank them in each category. (Try to come to a consensus with your group.) Check the answers and read the explanations. Finally, use the questions to have a discussion with your partners.

Biggest. Baddest. Best.

December 27, 2015 in Discussion tagged advanced / intermediate / on-screen by David

Are the statements fact or fiction? Discuss. Answer the questions for further discussion. Finally, read the answers to see if you were right.

Fact or Fiction

December 27, 2015 in Discussion tagged advanced / guessing / intermediate / on-screen by David

How many steps are there in the Eiffel Tower? How many teeth does a great white shark have? Take some wild guesses and find out.

Take a Wild Guess

December 27, 2015 in Discussion tagged advanced / guessing / intermediate by David

Watch a video while your partner is turned around. Then describe what happened in the video to your partner. Finally, quiz your partner to see how much was understood. Describing, clarifying, rephrasing and checking are used in this activity. Video #1 (1:21) Video #2 (1:22) Hand-out Print the quiz […]

Retelling 3: Fugu + Teamwork

November 21, 2015 in Activities tagged describing / groups / pairs / retelling / video by David

A video retelling activity. Watch a video while your partner is turned around. Then describe what happened in the video to your partner. Finally, quiz your partner to see how much was understood. Describing, clarifying, rephrasing and checking are used in this activity. Video #1 (1:12) Video #2 (2:22)