Typical questions

1. Give them these typical questions, a four-year-old child may ask, e.g. ‘Mummy, does the moon go for a wee-wee?’ ‘Where did I come from?’ ...

At the time of the photo

1. Ask the students to bring in a photo of themselves and bring one yourself. 2. Show your own photo and say: What you are doing at the phot...

Sentence ladder

1. The teacher writes on the blackboard 6 words from the active vocabulary students have recently learnt. 2. The task of the class is to use...

Different roles

1. Write the following questions on the board: Who/what does/did your best friend want you to be/do? Who/what does/did your father want you ...

Finishing conditional sentences

1. Give students only the if clause of a conditional sentence: If I go away on holiday this year ... and invite them to compose their own en...

Mad discussion

1. Divide the students into teams. One student from each team comes forward. 2. They have 3 minutes to argue about which is more important f...

Last year's feelings

1. Ask the students to write down one thing that happened to them last year in each of the following months: January, April, July, October. ...