Pre-intermediate A2 | TeachingEnglish | British Council

Here you can find a range of short activities to use in your secondary classroom with students at pre-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.

Lost your voice

This is like a role-play activity with no dialogue!

Storylines

This is a speaking and listening communication activity which was developed to help students practise narrative tenses and structures.

When did you last ...?

This activity gives elementary level students plenty of opportunity to speak and practise using the past simple.

Writing consequences

This is a fun activity to create a group story.

Why do we do that?

This activity gives the teacher and the learners an opportunity to discuss the reasons behind classroom practices.

Using plays in the language class

Using plays or drama in the language classroom can be both enormously rewarding and enjoyable for teachers as well as students.

End of year activities

These are three activities you can use at the end of a school year or course.

Sitcom activity: watching and completing a table

Sitcom activity: watching and completing a table

In this activity students watch a clip from two different sitcoms and then they complete a table with information.

A multi-level writing class

A multi-level writing class

This activity is a great writing task to use in the first week or so with a new group.

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