3. • Starting and finishing lessons
• Using basic materials
• Exploiting photos
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• Ball to recycle vocabulary / practise
questions
• Three things that went well today
• Vocabulary bag activities
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17. Basic classroom materials – Mini-whiteboards
Tip! For team games with MWBs, give each team
a different colour pen and call them ‘the green
team’ etc. Much easier to keep score!
• Phonemic script game
• Vocabulary quizzes
• Liven up grammar exercises (read out the
sentences in a different order!)
• Collocation sentences
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18. Basic classroom materials – Mini-whiteboards
How do you / could you use MWBs in
your lessons?
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21. Basic classroom materials – Dice
• Elicit 6 topics – students throw a dice
and speak for one minute
• 6 sentences / questions using a
grammar structure that you want
students to practise
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22. 1. A food or drink you didn’t use to like (but
you do now).
2. Something you used to do every day when
you were 10 years old.
3. A hobby you used to have.
4. A school you used to go to.
5. Something your parents used to make you
do that you didn’t like.
6. Something you didn’t use to like about
your school.
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23. Basic classroom materials – scraps of paper /
dice
How do you / could you use scraps of
paper / dice in your lessons?
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26. Photos
She’s in her late 60s. She’s
medium-height and overweight. She
looks happy. She has long, grey
hair.
27. She can’t be your sister because
she doesn’t look like you.
She might be your friend because
you’re having a drink together.
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28. Photos
Could you use students’ own mobile
phones in your teaching context? If
not, what are the alternatives?
What other activities can you think of
using photos from students’ mobile
phones?
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