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This activity for lower intermediate students allows them to role-play as weather forecasters and practice vocabulary related to the...

This was a simple writing that I assigned to students while they were studying a unit on physical activities and injuries. This writing...

This is a competitive activity that works with short videos. It normally takes up the whole class time. First, the students watch a short...

For this Halloween activity, students create a poster or small booklet of the recipe of a witch's potion. They should use their...

This activity can be done either as a speaking or a writing. The idea is that students are assigned three or four photos, and they must...

This TED talk works well with all levels. The speed of the video can be changed to accommodate for lower level speakers. The speaker of...

This speaking activity takes roughly two days of class to complete. In this activity, students are given a picture of a weird invention,...

At the time of this activity, the head of the high school English department had the idea of having the older advanced students create...

Below are a few song worksheets I created where students must complete the lyrics with a variety of activities. In some places they must...

This presentation project works perfectly while students are learning English related to health and/or nutrition. In this project,...

Commonly called "Einstein's Riddle" because it was supposedly invented by Einstein himself, this puzzle requires one to use logic to...

I am from Alabama in the United States, which is part of the region known as The South. There, the genre of country music is very...

This is a fun competition between groups of 3–5 (preferably 4) students during the Christmas season. I showed students several Christmas...

In this activity, students must prepare a self-presentation during which they talk about themselves, listing three personal qualities...

This is a simple activity for lower-level students to practice or review present continuous; the activity utilizes students' imaginations...

In this activity, my lower-level students created family trees and presented them in front of the class. The activity is a great way for...

This is a Halloween version of the simple activity (no materials needed) commonly known as "Chain Stories." It allows students to work...

"Stand Up If" is a common name for an icebreaker that I utilized during an introductory presentation. I preplanned a number of general...