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Level:
Intermediate
Time:
20 minutes
Skill:
Speaking
Work:
Students work in pairs
Stage:
Controlled grammar speaking practice
Focus:
Past Modal Verbs of Obligation
This is a general knowledge quiz about unusual rules in history. Each question features a past modal verb of obligation. The learners read the questions in pairs, answer them, and attempt to explain why they were true.

Level:
Pre-Intermediate
Time:
15 minutes
Skill:
Pronunciation
Work:
Students work in pairs
Stage:
Pronunciation practice
Focus:
Past Simple
This is a pronunciation activity designed to help raise learners’ awareness of sound and spelling relationships in the context of past simple regular verb ‘ed’ endings. The learners complete the missing letters of a range of regular past simple verbs, and choose the correct sound.

Level:
Pre-Intermediate
Time:
15 minutes
Skill:
Speaking
Work:
Students work in pairs
Stage:
Controlled grammar speaking practice
Focus:
Used To
This is a speaking game that focuses learners on slotting, collocation, and the grammar of typical ‘used to’ utterances. Learners read sentences featuring a ‘used to’ verb and change an element of the structure each time, while keeping on board the previous change. Ideal for a controlled speaking practice involving memorisation skills.

Level:
Business
Time:
20 minutes
Skill:
Speaking
Work:
Students work individually then in pairs
Stage:
Controlled grammar speaking practice
Focus:
Modal Verbs of Obligation
This is a pair work discussion handout for intermediate-level learners based on rules and regulations featuring modal verbs of obligation. The learners make questions from a range of prompts, using the key modal verbs provided. They then have a discussion about the topics practising the language in speaking.

Level:
Business
Time:
15 minutes
Skill:
Reading/Writing
Work:
Students work in pairs
Stage:
Controlled grammar speaking practice
Focus:
Modal Verbs of Obligation
This is a ‘guess my sentence’ speaking activity focus on present modal verbs of obligation. The learners have a range of sentences with missing information. The learners work with a partner and try to guess the missing information based on the context, their knowledge, and the grammar.

Level:
Business
Time:
15 minutes
Skill:
Speaking
Work:
Students work in pairs
Stage:
Controlled grammar speaking practice
Focus:
Offers and Requests
The language for offers and requests is the focus of this functional language half handout. The learners are presented with a range of pictures featuring items commonly found in a restaurant. The learners identify the items and then practise formulating offers and requests using the key language structures provided and the restaurant vocabulary.

Level:
Business
Time:
15 minutes
Skill:
Speaking
Work:
Students work in pairs
Stage:
Controlled grammar speaking practice
Focus:
Past Modal Verbs of Obligation
Learners use this speaking activity to discuss the changing nature of rules in their lives; being an adult compared with being a student at school. The students use past modal verbs of obligation and present ones to make comparisons and discuss how their lives are different.

Level:
Business
Time:
15 minutes
Skill:
Speaking
Work:
Students work in pairs
Stage:
Lead-in
Focus:
Talent
This is a lead-in activity into the subject of talent in both a business and non-business way. The learners are tasked with a number of discussion questions and vocabulary challenges related to the word ‘talent’ and the wider subject area based around it.

Level:
Business
Time:
20 minutes
Skill:
Reading/Speaking
Work:
Students work in pairs
Stage:
Vocabulary speaking practice
Focus:
Companies Vocabulary
This vocabulary-building handout is focused on the words used to describe different kinds of companies and organisations, such as ‘charity’, ‘corporation’, and ‘mutual’. Learners read descriptions of various types of organisations and write the appropriate word.

Level:
Business
Time:
15 minutes
Skill:
Speaking
Work:
Students work individually then in pairs
Stage:
Free grammar speaking practice
Focus:
Used To
In this speaking practice activity aimed at business English learners, students prepare and carry out a longer speaking turn with a focus on past habits with ‘used to’. The learners choose a topic either related to work or higher education and use ‘used to’ to compare their present lifestyle with their past.
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