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.

Snake-word

This game can help you check how rich your students' vocabulary is.

Vocabulary self-study activities

Vocabulary self-study activities

Here are some tips you can give your students to help them with their vocabulary acquisition and self study.

Managing Teenagers

Managing teenagers

Here are some useful suggestions for inspiring confidence in teenagers.

Snakes and ladders

Board games like Snakes and ladders add the element of fun to the English classroom and are a very useful way to develop more effective classroom dynamics.

Using magazines

Magazines are a great source of ideas and materials for teaching and can keep your students interested and talking for hours on a whole range of subjects.

Teacher telling a story with students at a desk

Storytelling

Storytelling activities are a great way to allow students to express themselves freely and creatively in an authentic and real way.

Activities for using comic strips

Comic strips can be used from beginner level to advanced level for a variety of language and discussion activities.

Reading aloud

Reading aloud

These activities describe different ways you and your students can read text aloud in order to develop your students' feeling for the music of the language.

Working with classroom readers

There are many ways you can work with classroom readers that are more inspiring and engaging than standard approaches, which can have negative effects on learning.

Research and insight

Browse fascinating case studies, research papers, publications and books by researchers and ELT experts from around the world.

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