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Intermediate

Skill:
Speaking
Time:
10 minutes
Stage:
Lead-in
Work:
Students work in pairs
Focus:
Advertising
Advertising has featured a variety of exuberant characters trying to sell their colourful wares. This funny lead-in handout gets learners discussing the features of a variety of famous names from Ronald McDonald to the Milky Bar Kid.

Skill:
Writing
Time:
20 minutes
Stage:
Language writing practice
Work:
Students work individually
Focus:
Advice and Suggestions
A written practice of advice and suggestions language, this handout involves the learners correcting mistakes in the formulaic language used to give advice and make suggestions.

Skill:
Writing
Time:
20 minutes
Stage:
Vocabulary writing practice
Work:
Students work individually
Focus:
Airport and In-Flight Vocabulary
This crossword activity helps learners practise using words associated with air travel, such as boarding pass. The learners read the clues and try to write the appropriate missing words in the crossword puzzle.

Skill:
Speaking
Time:
10 minutes
Stage:
Lead-in
Work:
Students work in pairs
Focus:
Art
Let's talk about art with this interesting split handout that motivates second language learners to discuss their preferences and priorities when it comes to art. Guaranteed to cater to anyone's tastes from Damien Hurst to Leonardo Da Vinci.

Skill:
Speaking
Time:
15 minutes
Stage:
Controlled grammar speaking practice
Work:
Students work in pairs
Focus:
Articles
Finally, an intermediate-level activity that challenges learners of English to improve their accuracy with articles. This handout demonstrates the futility of speaking without articles whilst helping learners build their spoken ability using a, an, the and nothing.

Skill:
Speaking
Time:
20 minutes
Stage:
Controlled grammar speaking practice
Work:
Students work together as a whole class
Focus:
Auxiliary Verbs
Are your students stuck on the thorny grammar of auxiliary verbs? Don't want to present multiple grammatical structures on the board? Use this easy to do, mid-level 'find someone who' handout that allows students to build questions confidently using auxiliary verbs.

Skill:
Writing
Time:
40 minutes
Stage:
Discovery of grammatical rules
Work:
Students work individually
Focus:
Auxiliary Verbs
Are you looking for a comprehensive discovery handout on auxiliary verbs which covers the material your students need in sufficient depth? This comprehensive sheet includes a rules-discovery approach, writing practice and a speaking element.

Skill:
Speaking
Time:
20 minutes
Stage:
Controlled grammar speaking practice
Work:
Students work individually then in pairs
Focus:
Auxiliary Verbs
Looking for a communicative activity on auxiliary verbs that doesn't get bogged down in tenses and grammar? This paired speaking task involves students choosing the correct auxiliary and discussing the questions they have made.
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