Intermediate B1

This activity can be used for all levels in teaching English as a second language. I use it mainly for intermediate students and they find it interesting.

This is an activity for students to practise reporting speech. It provides a situation for reporting what others have said that can be more realistic than some of the exercises that are found in textbooks, and great fun!

Learners have a lot of ideas about how they should learn a language and it is important to encourage them to discuss these and to communicate them to the teacher.

This series of activities enables students to practise what are traditionally called 'language skills' (reading, writing, etc.) in the context of their own lives and learn more about each other in the process.

This is an idea I got from a workshop that I went to many years ago. I have used it many times since and found it to be a really useful way of getting feedback from my students on my lessons and my teaching.

This is an integrated reading and speaking activity for intermediate (or higher) level students. They make decisions in pairs or groups with the aim of spending one million euros.

These activities are only available as a download because they are fairly long and provide full reading texts. They are related to the article - Lexical Approach 1 - What does the lexical approach look like?

This is an approach to reading that involves the students in speaking and summarising skills. It is very useful when working with short authentic texts such as newspaper articles.

Speaking English on the telephone is difficult for learners for many reasons and even high-level students often feel uncomfortable with the unpredictability of telephone conversations.