Teaching resources

Read about an easy and practical way you can improve your learners’ vocabulary skills with one simple tool.

This is a great filler activity which you can use at the beginning or end of any class to review vocabulary in a fun way.

I am a great believer in teaching phonetic script with new words, alongside their spelling, stress patterns and L1 equivalents.

This is a good vocabulary activity to use with younger learners.

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

This is an activity for students to practise reporting speech. It provides a situation for reporting what others have said that can be more realistic than some of the exercises that are found in textbooks, and great fun!

This worksheet for learners at an intermediate level and above is based on extracts from four plays by William Shakespeare.

In this activity, learners have fun making their own 'English’ telephones using paper cups and use them for practising all types of dialogue exchanges.

Learners have a lot of ideas about how they should learn a language and it is important to encourage them to discuss these and to communicate them to the teacher.

This series of activities enables students to practise what are traditionally called 'language skills’ (reading, writing, etc.) in the context of their own lives and learn more about each other in the process.

This is a collection of five games you can use to promote turn taking and collaboration in the classroom.

This is a seasonal information-gap activity to practise listening and speaking with young learners. The activity requires children to describe and organise objects in a picture according to their partner’s instructions.