Levels: pre-intermediate to low upper-intermediate.
Ages: older kids; teens; young adults.
Type: writing poems; revising grammar structures.
Skills: writing; listening; speaking; pronunciation (conveying emotion through emphasis and pausing).
Language focus: grammar revision; vocab – adjectives to make a description more detailed and colourful. Continue reading Easy Grammar Poems
Tag Archives: drama
Creating Class Stories from Character Names
Levels: strong pre-intermediate to low advanced.
Ages: kids; teens; adults.
Type: reducing fear of not being “creative”; writing a story; drama and role-play.
Skills: listening; speaking; reading; writing; pronunciation (sentence stress and intonation).
Language focus: grammar and vocab structures as they arise; register. Continue reading Creating Class Stories from Character Names
Story Battle
Levels: strong pre-intermediate to advanced.
Ages: older kids; teens; young adults.
Type: story discovery; games/competitions.
Skills: listening; speaking; writing (possible homework).
Language focus: any vocab and grammar structures necessary for the unfolding story. Continue reading Story Battle
Quick Story Creation
Levels: intermediate to advanced.
Ages: older teens; adults.
Type: creating class stories; quickly overcoming any fear of being creative.
Skills: listening; speaking; reading; writing; pronunciation (sentence stress and intonation).
Language focus: grammar: narrative tenses and question forms. Continue reading Quick Story Creation
Class Story Creation
Levels: upper-intermediate to advanced.
Ages: teens; adults.
Aims: to practise attentive listening; to practise question formation; to practise using spider diagrams or mind maps to organise information; to help build students’ senses of ownership of the English language; to create class cohesion.
Skills: listening; speaking; reading; writing.
Language focus: grammar – question forms and all else that arises in the lesson; vocab – as arises in the lesson. Continue reading Class Story Creation
Limerick Dictation/Pronunciation Lesson (about 1 hour)
Levels: pre-intermediate to intermediate.
Ages: older kids; teens; young adults.
Type: using limericks to teach sentence stress, rhythm and revise English word order.
Skills: speaking; listening; reading; writing; pronunciation (sentence stress, conveying emotion through emphasis).
Language focus: vocab – extending through finding English rhymes; textual cohesion. Continue reading Limerick Dictation/Pronunciation Lesson (about 1 hour)
Intonation Lesson (about 50 minutes)
Levels: pre-intermediate to advanced.
Ages: older kids; teens; adults
Type: drama; intonation practice through improvised role-play, investigating body language.
Skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, pronunciation (sentence stress; conveying feelings and status through emphasis/intonation).
Language focus: vocab and grammar as it arises. Continue reading Intonation Lesson (about 50 minutes)
