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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A Reading Task and Role Play

Here is an activity to challenge the students' reading skills at intermediate level and give them controlled speaking practice in a role play. The learners have to put a jumbled conversation into the correct order and can then act it out in pairs. The conversation takes place in a Travel Agent's.

Amazing facts

This activity is designed to be used as a warmer for Intermediate level learners. It could be used to generate interest in amazing facts as a lead in to a lesson using comparatives and superlatives.

British and American English - activities

British and American English

This activity is designed to be used when teaching or practising the difference between British and American English vocabulary.

Cheat & Swindle Holidays

If you've got a confident class with a passion for debate this activity could be the ideal way to allow learners to let off a bit of steam, while allowing the teacher to retain relative control over the language used.

Talking about the past

This speaking activity is for a 1-1 class with a learner at an intermediate level and who works, as many of the questions ask for reflection about working life.

Guided writing: Writing an article using the OHP

In this activity students find out about another country and put together an article. It can be used with students at intermediate level and above and helps develop their fluency as well as their writing skills.

Regrets

This is a speaking exercise for intermediate learners which provides them with an opportunity to review and practise the 'should have' structure for expressing regrets.

Consequences role play

Why not play a game of consequences with a difference, where students must take on the role of another person?

Rhyming blockbusters

This is a game to practise the vowel and diphthong sounds of the English sound system and the various ways in which these sounds are spelt.

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