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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Task-based speaking

This is a speaking lesson on the theme of planning a night out that uses a listening exercise to provide language input.

Mini-talks

This (diagnostic) activity is designed to give students freer speaking practice in the form of mini-talks. The teacher then focuses on accuracy in the next day follow-up activity and feedback sheet.

Getting to know you question tags

This is a communicative exercise to practise using question tags with rising intonation when you are not sure that your ideas are right.

Revising defining relative clauses

These activities provide meaningful tasks for what can sometimes be a tricky grammar area.

A creative writing activity: A dark and stormy night

This is an idea I learned when I first started teaching and still use to this day. The main focus of the activity is on developing writing skills, but it's also good for developing listening and reading skills and also for practising past tenses and descriptive vocabulary.

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