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Intermediate B1

Here you can find a range of short activities to use in your secondary classroom with students at intermediate level. All of our activities are designed around themes engaging and relevant to secondary learners and can be used to complement your school curriculum, giving students an opportunity to develop their English language and skills in motivating and enjoyable ways. Written by young learner 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.

Picture to story

This activity provides speaking and writing practice and uses learners' imaginations to create a story based on a picture.

Have you ever...?

This activity practises ‘have you ever...? to talk about life experiences. It is student led in terms of the content and is satisfying as a result.

Activities for first lessons 2

The following activities focus primarily on fluency and are suitable for intermediate level and up. They will give you a chance to get to know the class, break the ice and estimate their language level.

Poems for the future

Here are some suggestions to help get your students writing poems based around the theme of the future.

Ruckzuck

This is a brilliant vocabulary revision game for intermediate level students.

Discussing languages

This is a discussion activity that you can use to find out about your students’ opinions of language learning and how important they think it is.

Story telling grid

The aim of this activity is to get students to orally create a short story in small groups or pairs.

Who is it?

In this activity students listen to information about two immigrants and then create a background story for another.

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