IELTS Speaking Class Activities
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Free Writing – a great way to start an ESL writing lesson
About six years ago I was on a teacher training course and the instructor made a suggestion that...
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Ways to Get Your IELTS Students Moving
Most ESL teachers know that it’s important to get your students moving around the classroom....
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Beginning and Ending an IELTS Essay
So you’ve got a writing class coming up. Your students are eager to learn how to master...
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A Fun Way to Practice Adjective Clauses
Grammar can be boring… but it doesn’t always have to be that way. You can use games to...
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Parts of Speech Worksheet
In my IELTS writing classes, I like to start from the beginning – and I mean the very...
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ESL Celebrity Balloon Debate
The “balloon debate” is an ESL classic. How does it work? You get your students to...
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ESL Auction Game
I used this activity with two different groups of students yesterday and it worked perfectly. They...
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Past Tense Review Lesson – Running Dictation and Guided Discovery
I just did this lesson today with two groups of sophomore university students and it went rather...
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Job Application Task
I made this for my final CELTA class. It’s a fake newspaper jobs page. I wanted my students...
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Love/Hate + verb-ing Worksheet
I recently taught a CELTA class about saying whether you like/love/hate etc doing something. The...
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