Reported Speech
Lead-in Elicit where Ss hear gossip eg
-friends
-Sunday supplements
Ss in pairs / small groups
Discuss two or three gossip / paparazzi stories from the previous weeks news
H/O Newspaper gossip pages.
Prepare newspaper style story (about Ss from the class if appropriate).
These should include a minimum of one example of each tense (in reported statements) and also reported questions […]
‘Would rather’ for preference
In my teaching environment I’m blessed with great Access to IT and my students have constant Access to the internet, consequently I use this as a teaching tool regularly in my classes. One thing I often do is a quick bit of googling to find a topic relevant to the grammar point my students are […]
Present perfect for experience
Warmer: Elicit names of famous people onto the W/b
Make sure you have politicians…sports personalities…film stars…scientists…authors etc.
You choose a person but don’t tell the Ss who you are
Ss must ask you 15 Yes / No questions to try and guess
They are not allowed to make a guess before they ask 15 questions
Ss then play this in […]
Past Simple - Regular Verbs
Elicit date: Write on WB
WB: Draw man’s face.
Elicit: Name? Henry
Age
Where from
Family etc . . .
‘Henry’s dead but he had a good life’.
H/O 1 Henry’s Life.
What’s missing? The dates.
Ss melee and copy dates from the walls:
1929, 1943, 1946, 1960, 1965,1966, 1988, 1988, 1988, 1998.
Drill: Use a picture representing each of the main events in Henry’s life.
Drill […]
First Conditional Grammar Drills
Grammar chants can be a lot of fun to use in classes and are especially effective to help students learn problematic structures, words, etc. through repetition the right side of the brain engages its ‘musical’ intelligence.
First Conditional (Real Conditional Sentences)
Teacher/Leader: If …
Class/Group: If …
Teacher/Leader: If he comes …
Class/Group: If he comes …
Teacher/Leader: If he comes, […]
Past Perfect
Past Perfect Presentation #1
Materials: Flashcards of Marsha and Felix (headway- you’ll need to make them)
Spread the flashcards of Marsha and Felix on the floor in numerical order
Students sit on the floor around the flashcards and elicit the story from the students in the past simple.
When you have elicited the story, tell the students the story […]
Modal Verbs for Speculation
Presentation #1
? Bring in mystery objects for the students to guess what they are, eg a wrapped up bottle of shampoo or a wrapped up mandarin
? Take one of the parcels and pass it around the class
? Ask the students what they think it is and write the suggestions on the board in four separate […]
Giving advice; using should, need and have to
? Draw a picture on the board of a tramp or a homeless person.
? Elicit the person’s problems eg. Long dirty hair and nails, tatty clothes, smoking and drinking problems
? Ask the students ‘How can we help this person?’
? Say ‘I think he should …. He needs to …..’
? Drill.
? Invite the students to continue […]
Defining Relative Clauses
‘who’
? Elicit and board the students’ jobs
? Elicit briefly what each job entails, eg. Doctor – looks after ill people
? Give a definition of one of the jobs using the target language, eg. A doctor is someone who looks after ill people.
? Drill
? Eliciting from the students, do the same for the other students’ jobs
? […]
Question Tags
WB Stick flashcards (or draw) 2 people sitting together on a park bench, the sun shining:
A: Old woman
Elicit character adjectives: eg friendly, kind, talkative etc..
B: Surly looking drunk
Elicit character adjectives: eg aggressive, mean etc..
Where are they? In the park
Is it a nice day? Yes
Do they know each other? No
Does she want to talk? Yes
Elicit and […]