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Type:

A topical lead-in

Level:

Pre-Intermediate

Time:

15 minutes

Skill:

Reading/Speaking

Work:

Students work in pairs

Stage:

Lead-in/Extended speaking task

Focus:

Luck

Lead-in your lesson on luck with this vocabulary and speaking handout. The learners are tasked with a range of questions, ranging from quiz questions, collocations, matching activities, and speaking.

1. Copy one handout for each individual student.

2. Put the students into pairs, and give out the handouts one between two (give out the remaining sheets after the activity to ensure better pair work). Explain that the learners are to read the questions and answer them with their partner.

3. Monitor the students, and when appropriate provide any necessary individual language or vocabulary input.

4. Finally, make sure now every student has a copy of the sheet and elicit the answers from the students. Clarify any confusion or misunderstanding over the language and offer input.

Type:

A vocabulary quiz

Level:

Advanced

Time:

20 minutes

Skill:

Speaking

Work:

Students work in pairs

Stage:

Vocabulary speaking practice

Focus:

Phrases with 'Get'

This vocabulary practice handout challenges learners to evaluate their knowledge of phrases featuring ‘get’. Working in pairs, the students read out a range of definitions of phrases with ‘get’. Their partner must guess which phrase is correct.

1. Copy one handout per pair of students, and cut the handouts up into A and B.

2. Put the students into pairs with an A and B student, and distribute the handouts.

3. Focus learners' attentions on the instructions and make sure they aren't looking at each other's sheets. The learners read their definitions of the expressions featuring 'get'. Their partner tries to guess the appropriate verb phrase.

4. Monitor the students, providing language input or error correction when necessary.

5. Finally, elicit responses from some of the students and draw to their attention any appropriate vocabulary or serious language mistakes.

Type:

A reading activity

Level:

Teens

Time:

15 minutes

Skill:

Reading

Work:

Students work individually

Stage:

Reading

Focus:

Football Vocabulary

Give your teenagers this reading activity about football to introduce the topic or for practising reading skills. This basic level text provides the learners with information about how to play the game. The learners need to fill the gaps by picking out the key words.

1. Copy one handout for each individual student and distribute them.

2. The learners read the text and write in the missing word(s) in the twelve sentences below.

3. Monitor the students, providing language input or error correction when necessary.

4. Finally, elicit the answers from the learners, and draw to their attention any appropriate vocabulary or serious language mistakes.

Type:

A vocabulary practice activity

Level:

Starter

Time:

15 minutes

Skill:

Writing

Work:

Students work individually

Stage:

Spelling practice

Focus:

Weather Vocabulary

Help your beginner students with weather words with this vocabulary checklist activity. Learners trace a range of words on the topic with pictures provided to help them. After noticing the word spelling patterns, the learners need to try to spell the words from memory.

1. Copy one handout for each individual student and distribute them.

2. Focus learners' attentions on the instructions. The learners begin by tracing the words in the left hand column, raising their awareness of the spelling patterns of the word. When the learners are ready, have them fold their paper and try to spell the words from memory. If need be, the learners can have a look on the other side of the paper, but encourage them to try and spell them from memory first, so as to avoid a mere copying exercise.

3. Monitor the students, and when appropriate provide any necessary individual input or assistance.

4. For feedback, have the learners unfold their papers and self-correct. Alternatively, you could have the learners peer correct by getting them to swap their papers (particularly if you want to make the activity competitive).

5. Draw the students' attentions to any specific mistakes in spelling if any seem prevalent throughout the activity and offer input. Bring up any useful spelling patterns in the words, and/or help them with the more challenging ones to remember.

Type:

A vocabulary practice activity

Level:

Starter

Time:

15 minutes

Skill:

Writing

Work:

Students work individually

Stage:

Spelling practice

Focus:

Transport Vocabulary

Help your beginner students with transport words with this vocabulary checklist activity. Learners trace a range of words on the topic with pictures provided to help them. After noticing the word spelling patterns, the learners need to try to spell the words from memory.

1. Copy one handout for each individual student and distribute them.

2. Focus learners' attentions on the instructions. The learners begin by tracing the words in the left hand column, raising their awareness of the spelling patterns of the word. When the learners are ready, have them fold their paper and try to spell the words from memory. If need be, the learners can have a look on the other side of the paper, but encourage them to try and spell them from memory first, so as to avoid a mere copying exercise.

3. Monitor the students, and when appropriate provide any necessary individual input or assistance.

4. For feedback, have the learners unfold their papers and self-correct. Alternatively, you could have the learners peer correct by getting them to swap their papers (particularly if you want to make the activity competitive).

5. Draw the students' attentions to any specific mistakes in spelling if any seem prevalent throughout the activity and offer input. Bring up any useful spelling patterns in the words, and/or help them with the more challenging ones to remember.

Type:

A vocabulary practice activity

Level:

Starter

Time:

15 minutes

Skill:

Writing

Work:

Students work individually

Stage:

Spelling practice

Focus:

Sport Vocabulary

Help your beginner students with more sport words with this vocabulary checklist activity. Learners trace a range of words on the topic with pictures provided to help them. After noticing the word spelling patterns, the learners need to try to spell the words from memory.

1. Copy one handout for each individual student and distribute them.

2. Focus learners' attentions on the instructions. The learners begin by tracing the words in the left hand column, raising their awareness of the spelling patterns of the word. When the learners are ready, have them fold their paper and try to spell the words from memory. If need be, the learners can have a look on the other side of the paper, but encourage them to try and spell them from memory first, so as to avoid a mere copying exercise.

3. Monitor the students, and when appropriate provide any necessary individual input or assistance.

4. For feedback, have the learners unfold their papers and self-correct. Alternatively, you could have the learners peer correct by getting them to swap their papers (particularly if you want to make the activity competitive).

5. Draw the students' attentions to any specific mistakes in spelling if any seem prevalent throughout the activity and offer input. Bring up any useful spelling patterns in the words, and/or help them with the more challenging ones to remember.

Type:

A vocabulary practice activity

Level:

Starter

Time:

15 minutes

Skill:

Writing

Work:

Students work individually

Stage:

Spelling practice

Focus:

Sport Vocabulary

Help your beginner students with sport words with this vocabulary checklist activity. Learners trace a range of words on the topic with pictures provided to help them. After noticing the word spelling patterns, the learners need to try to spell the words from memory.

1. Copy one handout for each individual student and distribute them.

2. Focus learners' attentions on the instructions. The learners begin by tracing the words in the left hand column, raising their awareness of the spelling patterns of the word. When the learners are ready, have them fold their paper and try to spell the words from memory. If need be, the learners can have a look on the other side of the paper, but encourage them to try and spell them from memory first, so as to avoid a mere copying exercise.

3. Monitor the students, and when appropriate provide any necessary individual input or assistance.

4. For feedback, have the learners unfold their papers and self-correct. Alternatively, you could have the learners peer correct by getting them to swap their papers (particularly if you want to make the activity competitive).

5. Draw the students' attentions to any specific mistakes in spelling if any seem prevalent throughout the activity and offer input. Bring up any useful spelling patterns in the words, and/or help them with the more challenging ones to remember.

Type:

A vocabulary practice activity

Level:

Starter

Time:

15 minutes

Skill:

Writing

Work:

Students work individually

Stage:

Spelling practice

Focus:

School Subjects

Help your beginner students with school subject words with this vocabulary checklist activity. Learners trace a range of words on the topic with pictures provided to help them. After noticing the word spelling patterns, the learners need to try to spell the words from memory.

1. Copy one handout for each individual student and distribute them.

2. Focus learners' attentions on the instructions. The learners begin by tracing the words in the left hand column, raising their awareness of the spelling patterns of the word. When the learners are ready, have them fold their paper and try to spell the words from memory. If need be, the learners can have a look on the other side of the paper, but encourage them to try and spell them from memory first, so as to avoid a mere copying exercise.

3. Monitor the students, and when appropriate provide any necessary individual input or assistance.

4. For feedback, have the learners unfold their papers and self-correct. Alternatively, you could have the learners peer correct by getting them to swap their papers (particularly if you want to make the activity competitive).

5. Draw the students' attentions to any specific mistakes in spelling if any seem prevalent throughout the activity and offer input. Bring up any useful spelling patterns in the words, and/or help them with the more challenging ones to remember.

Type:

A vocabulary practice activity

Level:

Starter

Time:

15 minutes

Skill:

Writing

Work:

Students work individually

Stage:

Spelling practice

Focus:

Countries and Nationalities Vocabulary

Help your beginner students with more nationality words with this vocabulary checklist activity. Learners trace a range of words on the topic with pictures provided to help them. After noticing the word spelling patterns, the learners need to try to spell the words from memory.

1. Copy one handout for each individual student and distribute them.

2. Focus learners' attentions on the instructions. The learners begin by tracing the words in the left hand column, raising their awareness of the spelling patterns of the word. When the learners are ready, have them fold their paper and try to spell the words from memory. If need be, the learners can have a look on the other side of the paper, but encourage them to try and spell them from memory first, so as to avoid a mere copying exercise.

3. Monitor the students, and when appropriate provide any necessary individual input or assistance.

4. For feedback, have the learners unfold their papers and self-correct. Alternatively, you could have the learners peer correct by getting them to swap their papers (particularly if you want to make the activity competitive).

5. Draw the students' attentions to any specific mistakes in spelling if any seem prevalent throughout the activity and offer input. Bring up any useful spelling patterns in the words, and/or help them with the more challenging ones to remember.

Type:

A vocabulary practice activity

Level:

Starter

Time:

15 minutes

Skill:

Writing

Work:

Students work individually

Stage:

Spelling practice

Focus:

Countries and Nationalities Vocabulary

Help your beginner students with nationality words with this vocabulary checklist activity. Learners trace a range of words on the topic with pictures provided to help them. After noticing the word spelling patterns, the learners need to try to spell the words from memory.

1. Copy one handout for each individual student and distribute them.

2. Focus learners' attentions on the instructions. The learners begin by tracing the words in the left hand column, raising their awareness of the spelling patterns of the word. When the learners are ready, have them fold their paper and try to spell the words from memory. If need be, the learners can have a look on the other side of the paper, but encourage them to try and spell them from memory first, so as to avoid a mere copying exercise.

3. Monitor the students, and when appropriate provide any necessary individual input or assistance.

4. For feedback, have the learners unfold their papers and self-correct. Alternatively, you could have the learners peer correct by getting them to swap their papers (particularly if you want to make the activity competitive).

5. Draw the students' attentions to any specific mistakes in spelling if any seem prevalent throughout the activity and offer input. Bring up any useful spelling patterns in the words, and/or help them with the more challenging ones to remember.

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