They have to be designed so they are easy to explain and understand. Esl activities for intermediate students esl expat. Students can use vocabulary from their course book to improve their speaking skills while producing a unique story of their own. Give each group of three or four a copy of the game board, a dice and counters. This dialogue and videoaided lesson looks at the life and works of william shakespeare. Students will describe the area they live in and learn some prepositions of place. Prepare in advance, on an overhead transparency or whiteboard, a mind map of yourself. The activity is appropriate for all ages and levels. Students at preintermediate level are able to express themselves better and there is more need for resources that prompt or guide communication and not dictate it so much. In this area you will be able to download the speaking tests for the preintermediate level of the big picture. An interesting preintermediateintermediate lesson in which students warm up by.
Describing things, gettingtoknow each other, saytellspeaktalk, mingling activities. Dont forget to assign who will support and who will oppose the idea. A lot of the tasks sprang from my own imagination, stimulating me to go into the classroom, feeling motivated by the freshness that accompanies a new inspiration and being eager to share it with my students. The activities motivate the students to persuade and argue in a lighthearted manner. Printable pdf lesson plans and teacher instructions for preintermediate speaking and role play lessons. This page contains activities and worksheets for practising speaking english as a foreign language. Make one copy of worksheet l b information sheet for each student in the class. It was inspired by the video whats on your mind which went viral and inspired some discussion about the way we use social media to create our online persona. On these pages you will find ideas for classroom activities which involve speaking 1 staged roleplay jeff fowler, teacher, trainer, british council naples this is a series of engaging roleplays based on the concept of the gap year a round the world trip. Formal and informal english politeness or colloquial language future continuous tense. He then selects a student and an expression for the continuation of the discussion. This game works well with students at pre intermediate level or above and can be adapted accordingly. If you would like to save a file to your files, please sign in using login form below.
Each activity also comes in userfriendly a4 pdf format with full teachers notes. Preintermediate speaking, role play, topics lesson plans. Dec 02, 2015 in this activity students need to come up with various sentences using will to express promises, offers, decisions and threats in different contexts. A pairwork activity at preintermediate level to practise. All talking point conversation worksheets are designed for use with students who have reached pre intermediate level, though they are also very successful with. It contains useful expressions and phrases for daily conversations. Practise the sounds of english, and play sounds and word stress games.
Check they understand the instructions and the activity. Liz regan 2007 page 1 of 2 activity 1 discuss with your partner what the party phrases below mean. Students must work collaboratively to put the story together in the right order. Suitable for students who have already worked with the concept of using will, pre intermediate and intermediate levels. Interacting and engaging with students and getting students to interact with each other is possibly the most rewarding and fulfilling part of a language teachers job. These efl esl activities are a great way for your students to use english in a semicontrolled environment.
Students can be hesitant to speak for a wide variety of reasons fear of mistakes, peer pressure, or lack of selfconfidence are some of the main factors. Murderous dinner party roleplay conversation cards 7. The worksheet focuses on listening comprehension, vocabulary development and speaking. Includes mobile friendly listening and reading lessons, song based activities, video listening comprehension quizzes, grammar tests and quizzes, plus tefl teaching resources for english language teachers. Give one set of unfinished sentences to each group. Students give a high five to students they have something in common with. Teacher or learner a significant learning resource and learning experience. Games and activities for the english as a second language. Colour pdf, 3, 051kb, black and white pdf, 376kb grammar exercises. Each lesson has a preparation task, an audio recording and two tasks to check. Travel and holidays reading, listening and vocabulary quizzes and printable worksheets for english language learners, and free lesson materials for tefl teachers. I have designed this pdf for my preintermediate class. The speaking activities in this text come from a variety of sources. Active and passive voice preintermediate learn english.
Conversation worksheets the main aim of these talking point conversation worksheets is to promote english fluency by presenting students with stimulating discussion questions. Download the students hand out and teachers lesson plan below. Free online english exercises and lessons for adult pre intermediate students of english and young learners. The best time to use pair work is during oral activities, as these activities allow students to get more speaking time than they would in a class setting. Talking about humor this is an esl discusssion exercise useful for talking about humor. Speakout pre intermediate 2nd edition students book and dvdrom pack by antonia clare, 9781292115979, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. When each pdf file opens, you can print it out or save it to your computer. There is also an explanation on the different verbs that can be used when people talk about how they feel. Future perfect simple and continuous progressive tense. Travel anecdote staying in a hotel with bed bugs that can be cut into strips 15 30 students. Speaking activities on these pages you will find ideas for classroom activities which involve speaking 1 staged roleplay jeff fowler, teacher, trainer, british council naples this is a series of engaging roleplays based on the concept of the gap year a round the world trip. Pre intermediate worl students exchange opinions about hypothetical future situations. The worksheet includes visual, textbased and speaking activities.
Reading will help you to improve your understanding of the language and build your vocabulary. All of our activities are designed around themes engaging and relevant to secondary learners and can be used to complement your school curriculum, giving students an opportunity to develop their english language and skills in motivating and enjoyable ways. Speakout preintermediate 2nd edition students book and dvd. Student s book headway john and liz soars oxford university press contents language input vocabulary everyday 1 getting to tenses using a bilingual dictionary p9 social expressions 1 know you present, past, future p68 parts of speech have a good weekend. It uses many communicative activities to encourage students to draw on their own experience and develop the ability to talk about a variety of topics and situations. Choose yourself as conductor and 4 other students to be conducted. Check out the menus on our site for hundreds more free lesson resources, games and quizzes for adult efl students and young learners. Click on the link icons to download lesson textbooks and powerpoint slide shows. Students communicate words for countries and tourist activities without saying them mime. With an uneven number of students, 1 journalist will now interview 2 rich people. Fun and engaging esl activities, games and worksheets for english teachers to use in. English esl worksheets, activities for distance learning.
Situations include simple explanations, introductions, messages and announcements. A collection of games and activities for upperintermediate and advanced students of english. This professionally illustrated powerpoint will prompt your students to ask fun, meaningful and topic related questions about the fall. If there are fewer than 14 students in the class or group, use the appropriate number of identity cards. To ask for and give directions in and around an office building. Here you can find a range of short activities to use in your secondary classroom with students at preintermediate level. The subject performs the action expressed in the verb. Click on the image below or the link at the download the printable pdf file. Students design an activity and then invite other classmates to. Find a range of full lesson plans to use in the english language classroom with teenage learners at level a2 pre.
Not all classroom activities are designed for pair work. A speaking lesson by lindsay clandfield for students to discuss issues related to football and the world cup. In this preintermediate level lesson, students predict content from a text, then read for gist and specific information, as well as giving reasons for why they agree or disagree with a topic. It is suitable for preintermediate and intermediate students and compliments well coursebook chapters about technology.
It is an original way of introducing yourself as a teacher to a class for the first time, but could also be used later on. This section offers listening practice to help you understand common vocabulary and expressions in short, clear dialogues. This could be compared to cooking on impulse rather than. Preintermediate, intermediate, upper intermediate type. Pre intermediate phrases for conversation low intermediate conversation starters rejoinders giving opinions agreeing disagreeing asking for details. After doing some work on positional prepositions and phrases, there is a speaking activity in which the students get to practice also their drawing skills. Engaging tefl writing activities tefl teaching tefl tales. There is a huge amount of resources in this section for preintermediate which reflects the fact that students communication has improved markedly by the preintermediate level. Sep 23, 2015 if youre teaching a class of solid preintermediate students or beyond, simple writing dictation games isnt the type of writing that i choose to focus on. These esl listening activities for intermediate students are game changers in the classroom. Preintermediate a2 teachingenglish british council bbc. It includes business role plays, icebreakers and problem solving.
You can use this activity as a way ofputting students into pairs for another activity. Time 30 to 40 minutes procedure 1 if there are more than 14 students in the class, divide the class into groups. A great tool and resource for conversation classes. Put them into pairs to ask and answer the questions in. Tell the students not to show their cards to anyone else. In this section of preintermediate, you will find such materials. You will be able to access all of the rest of the tests available through here. Travel holidays english language skills practice esl. Some vocabulary work on the use of positive and negative adjectives to describe moviestv programs. If there are more than 14 students in the class, divide the students into groups.
Students now change roles and repeat the activity so that the journalists are now rich people and so on. Conversation worksheets esl worksheets englishclub. Fundamentalism and british values preintermediate 1 1. You can print out the pdf file and cut the questions into strips. A british english worksheet to complete a quiz about the world. In this activity, students work in pairs and the information, i. Allot students two or three minutes to think of ideas, take notes, or check dictionaries. Two freely communicative speaking activities give students a. There are many exercises on grammar and vocabulary as well as whole text activities. Includes mobile friendly listening and reading lessons, song based activities, video listening comprehension quizzes, grammar tests and quizzes, plus tefl teaching resources for english language. Hand out the appropriate worksheets to the students.
This country producer of gold, and it exports wine and wool it has more diamonds, too. Beginner, intermediate, advanced printfriendlyage group. This is a vocabulary lesson for preintermediate intermediate students. Preintermediate a2b1 in this lesson, students learn and practice words for feelings. Preintermediate a2b1 students watch a breaking news video clip about captain tom moore, a 99yearold army veteran who walked 100 laps of his garden to raise money for britains national health service. Successful english language speaking exercises are perhaps the most interesting and enjoyable part of teaching esl. Cut the cards and divide your students into small groups.
Super elementary speaking activities are a really good way to get students speaking at a low level. Facebook lesson plan offers a lot of facebookrelated vocabulary practice, grammar practice, and speaking. English esl preintermediate a2 worksheets most downloaded. In this area you will be able to download the speaking tests for the pre intermediate level of the big picture. A variety of speaking and icebreaker activities for esl. Kids, adults storytelling esl activity preparation.
Before the class, find a cartoon with at least four vignettes. With higher level students, writing activities can still be a great way for students to work on their accuracy, but its also good for fluency practice. For example, if there are ten students, make a copy of the worksheet and cut off the last four lines of the information chart, before making a copy for each student in the group. Students role play a family meeting and use the causative to discuss what their parents will letmakehavegethelp them to do. They make teaching much more enjoyable and fun and encourage students to really. Are you a preintermediate cefr level a2 learner of english. Suitable for strong pre intermediate students and above. Here you can find activities to practise your reading skills. Give students one minute to look at the conversation topic card and think about the questions before they do the task. Either it never rains, or it and sports, swimming, and rains a lot. Here are free materials that are for students at a preintermediate level of english. All talking point conversation worksheets are designed for use with students who have reached preintermediate level, though they are also very successful with. We also provide test practice activity for students who are. The students then stand up and go around the class, asking and artswering questions about their pictures until they find the student who has the identical card.
The subject receives the action expressed in the verb. Pre intermediate, intermediate, upper intermediate type. Free online english exercises and lessons for adult preintermediate students of english and young learners. Students appreciate the controlled, yet free use of the language and find these types of classes more enjoyable than traditional teacher focused lessons. Next they exchange questions and find a new partner. Travel and holidays esl lesson activities and printable. It is a detective story that engages students in conversation and will practice mainly questions and answers in simple present and simple past. Preintermediate english lessons and games for english. This will probably be suitable for students in their first year of english studies. A british english worksheet to read and match sentences to an american english or a british english speaker. Procedure give each student a conversation topic card. Click on the button below to launch the test studio. The book contains tasks and activities based on pair and group work, including discussion of texts and pictures, problemsolving, games and puzzles, and there is an emphasis on.
This is a powerpoint presentation which can be used during a roleplay and communicative activities based on a specific objective. Superlative adjectives esl activities worksheets games. To practise everyday requests when travelling on business. Candidates are assessed on their performance throughout the test. Esl superlative adjectives board game reading and speaking activity low intermediate b1 30 minutes. Below are our lessons for preintermediate level students. If an activity works, the class is much more entertaining, fun and helps students get over their reticence to speak english.
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