Pre-intermediate A2

I've always found it really useful to have simple pictures on hand. Just some simple pictures of food can be used in a multitude of ways, to revise vocabulary or to generate discussion.

This activity can be used at any level from elementary up. The aim of the activity is to get students talking about people's lives and homes using pictures as prompts.

A role-play in which your students practise making complaints and dealing with people in a shop.

This activity looks at ways of making comparative forms by asking learners to compare things that are usually thought of as opposites.

This is a speaking exercise for pre-intermediate level learners and above. It revises time references and past simple.

This is a speaking exercise for pre-intermediate and intermediate level learners which provides them with an opportunity to review and practise the superlative form whilst personalising it.

This is an activity to help students differentiate and produce the short / I / sound as in 'milk' and the longer / i: / sound as in 'beef', although it can be adapted to any pair of sounds which your students have differentiation problems with.

This game is a natural follow on from the Homophone dictation and can be used to help the students practise and remember homophones.

Homophones can be one of the reasons students spell or hear something incorrectly. By raising learners' awareness of these types of words in an open and fun manner, teachers can help learners understand why they have difficulty with a particular listening activity or even with spelling a word wrongly.