Dickens for Christmas

A listening and speaking lesson on pranks

On the heels of the recent ghost in the elevator TV prank (40 million YouTube hits and counting), here's a 30-minute listening / vocabulary lesson you can use with your late B2/C1 teens / young adults - not sure more serious adults would enjoy it!

http://www.luizotaviobarros.com/2012/12/tv-pranks-esl-lesson.html

Urban Legends

Read these urban legends to your students. When you finish reading them, tell them to tell you another urban legend they know. They will love this activity!

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Phrasal verbs and collocations with "get"

Here you can find some activities to show your students the importance of the verb "get" in English. They will see that it can have different meanings as it can appear both in phrasal verbs and collocations.


1. Tell your students to watch this video on the different collocations with the verb "get". They should write a list with all the collocations they hear.

2. Tell your students to read this website, where they can find some phrasal verbs with "get".
Click here

Then they can do the following exercises:
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3



3. To conclude, tell them to listen to the song "Fast car" by Tracy Chapman. You could prepare a fill in exercise with the lyrics.

PRONUNCIATION

 Here are a few sites that may help:
1) Received Pronunciation - this is a good set of activities, audio and links from York University in Canada
http://www.yorku.ca/earmstro/speech/dialects/rp/index.html
2) Dialect blog - this is an interesting blog with lots of clips of British accents and notes on their key differences
http://dialectblog.com/british-accents/
3) ESOL Nexus - practise the sounds of English, improve your stress and intonation, and listen to examples of accents from around the UK
http://esol.britishcouncil.org/pronunciation

HOW TO MAKE PIZZA

What a weird way. Video and article.......

PERSONALISED SPEAKING

A good activity to promote speaking about personal experiences