Intermediate B1

Here you can find a range of short activities to use in your adult classroom with students at intermediate level. All of our activities are designed around engaging themes and relevant to adult learners of English. Written by experts from around the world, our activities are easy to use and aim to give your students the skills and confidence they need to enjoy learning English.

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Supporting city openness

This is a listening activity aimed at intermediate level adult and young adult students.

Gap fill poems

I like to use this activity to introduce poetry into the classroom and to raise learners' awareness of the beauty and fun to be had with poetry. It can also be used to practise learners' pronunciation.

The soap opera

In this activity students create a profile for a group of people and imagine their relationships to each other. They then construct a soap opera based around the characters and write a scene from the soap opera.

Chain story telling

In this speaking activity the students tell personal stories which are prompted by pictures.

Sitcom activity: review writing

This latest activity in this series is suitable for intermediate + level students.

Events that changed history

This activity is designed to be used as a consolidation exercise for the third conditional.

Sitcom information activity

This is a further activity based around sitcoms, and is suitable for intermediate - upper Intermediate levels.

Sitcom activity: creating a sitcom

This activity is suitable for intermediate level students and above. Students create a new sitcom in groups.

Developing a Nation

This is a group-work speaking activity for intermediate level and above, where students are asked to make choices about the future economic development of a fictional developing country.

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