Take a local newspaper
Suitable for Year 3 onwards

To encourage exchange of personal news and life events.

Cocktail Party Game
Suitable for Year 2 onwards

To practise exchanging information about oneself.

Changing Sentences

To practise sentence patterns

Correcting mistakes

To encourage learners to check for errors in their own writing.

The Business Card Game

To practise introducing oneself and finding out about other people

Talking about a picture

Picture of a street scene

To practise past continuous tense, or the present

Fashion pictures from magazines

To practise descriptions of clothes, colours, physical characteristics.

Supermarket special offer brochures

To practise food items, partitive article, quantities and packages

Pictures of well-known places
(from travel brochures etc)

 

Building Numbers

Suitable for beginners onwards
To practise saying random numbers.

Number auction
Suitable for beginners

To help with recognising and saying numbers out loud.

Oldest clothes
Suitable for Year 3 onwards
To encourage talking about the past
Keep or throw away?
Suitable for Year 3 upwards
To learn vocabulary for household items and prompt learners to justify decisions.