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Art Theft
This gap fill and comprehension exercise looks at the trade in stolen art works around the world. Students practice reading for understanding, asking and answering questions.
Intermediate
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Famous People: Alfred Nobel and the Peace Price
This gap fill and comprehension exercise is a look at dynamite tycoon Alfred Nobel and the annual prizes he established.
Upper-Intermediate
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Coordinating Conjunctions: and, but, so
The text discusses the Covid19 pandemic lockdown. The gap fill and comprehension exercises help students to practice use of coordinating conjunctions and, but, so.
Elementary
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All You Ever Wanted To Know About: The Oscars
A short activity to practice reading for understanding, asking and answering questions and to learn about the Oscars.
Intermediate
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Chinese New Year
To practice reading for understanding, to practice asking and answering questions, to learn about customs of different cultures.
Pre-Intermediate Lesson Updated: 6 January 2020
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Find Your Other Half - Weird Trash
What's washing up in your neighborhood? This warmer is an enjoyable way for students to learn about a growing concern - the scale of waste and the shape it can take.
Intermediate
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What Insect Am I?
This warmer is a good activity when the group is relatively new and still learning about each other. It helps student practice listening for instructions and to share ideas.
Pre-Intermediate
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How Often Were You Late For School...?
This warmer helps students practice asking How often...? with the simple past tense and using frequency adverbs to find out people's experiences of elementary school when they were younger.
Upper-Intermediate
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Create A Musical Group!
This warmer promotes discussion and creativity and helps students use the simple present tense.
Elementary
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I used to be...
This warmer encourages students to use 'used to...' to describe past habits and states.
Upper-Intermediate
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And The Winner Is...
This warmer is designed to be done before the U.S. Academy Awards. It gets students to practice arguing for or against something, to discuss choices, and to express opinions.
Pre-Intermediate
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What Should She Have Done..?
This activity encourages students to give advice about the past - the beauty of hindsight.
Upper-Intermediate
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Natural disasters: World's Worst Hurricanes
This activity encourages communication between students asking and answering questions from a newspaper article about hurricanes.
Pre-Intermediate
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Move A Word - Coordinating conjunctions
This activity focuses on coordinating conjunctions. Students read for meaning and then spot different coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or) and their uses.
Elementary
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Find The Other Half - All About Volcanoes
This warmer is an enjoyable way for students to read factual information about volcanic eruptions and focus on how sentences are put together.
Pre-Intermediate
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British Royal Weddings
This warmer gets students talking, forming questions and scanning for information.
Intermediate
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My Favorite City
This warmer gets students thinking about and discussing cities and travel. A great intro for the Instant Lesson "Let's All Move To Finland".
Pre-Intermediate
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All About Eggs
This warmer gets students scanning for information about an Easter craft or custom, completing a table about it and using persuasive language to introduce it to their partner.
Pre-Intermediate
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Soccer World Cup - Russia, 2018
This warmer gets students talking, forming questions and scanning for information.
Intermediate
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Child Brides
The hidden economic costs of child marriage: this warmer gets students talking, forming questions and scanning for information.
Intermediate
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It's All Relative...
We use non-defining relative clauses to give extra information about the person or thing. It is not necessary information. We don’t need it to understand who or what is being referred to. This warmer gets students thinking about sentence formation and non-defining clauses.
Intermediate
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The Students Who Are In The Classroom Next Door...
Students think about defining relative clauses and relative pronouns as they form sentences.
Intermediate
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I'm not very good at...
This warmer encourages students to say what they hope or plan to do in the future and gets them to practice using gerunds at the same time.
Pre-Intermediate
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Sentence Snakes - Saying Thank You
This warmer encourages students to think about word order, and gets them to move around and talk to each other.
Elementary
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Endangered Animals! SOS!
This warmer gets students talking about environmental issues. Students discuss decisions made at U.N. meeting on wildlife trade in South Africa.
Intermediate
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Food on our plates
This warmer gets students talking about environmental issues and encourages students to discuss a topic, making predictions.
Intermediate
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Women at the Olympics
This is an ice-breaker to get your students thinking about women at the Olympic Games and practicing forming questions to get additional information.
Intermediate
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Practicing Possessive Pronouns with Candies
A sweet way for students to focus on possessive pronouns.
Elementary
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Move A Word-2
An activity that focuses on possessive adjectives.
Elementary
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Punctuation Practice
This warmer focuses students on proofing their own work.
Intermediate
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My Terrible Day
Use this warmer to review the use of conjunctions and look at days where things go wrong.
Intermediate
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Move A Word
An activity that focuses on conjunctions.
Intermediate
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Create Your Own Monster
A warmer that promotes discussion and creativity and helps students use and review adjectives and the simple present tense.
Elementary
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I Love Reading
This warmer can be used at most levels in celebration of the enjoyment and importance of reading.
Elementary
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Village Heroes
A warmer about a charity organisation in Ghana. This ice-breaker gives students practice reading for understanding and practice asking and answering questions.
Intermediate
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Which Character From A Book Are You?
This is a warmer for Book Week at your school.
Pre-Intermediate
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World Leaders: Lee Kuan Yew
This warmer gets students to read and think about the life of a famous person and focus on the use of prepositions.
Intermediate
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Find Your Other Half - Subordinating Conjunctions
This warmer looks at the problem of plastic waste and is an enjoyable way for students to practice use of subordinating conjunctions if, because, until.
Intermediate
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Find Your Other Half - Coordinating Conjunctions
This Pre-Intermediate and above warmer is an enjoyable way for students to practice use of coordinating conjunctions and, but, so.
Pre-Intermediate
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Famous Cities - Port Vila, Vanuatu
This warmer is an enjoyable way for students to find out about Port Vila and the Pacific. Students will scan for information in separate articles and then share and discuss what they have learnt.
Intermediate
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Silly Story (1)
This warmer gets learners chatting! This is a good ice-breaker for the presentation of simple past for the narration of a story and the language of shopping.
Intermediate
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You Really Need This!
This ice-breaker gets learners practicing using persuasive language as they make an advertising pitch.
Intermediate
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Olympic Sports Controversies
This ice-breaker is great for practicing reading for understanding, asking and answering questions and talking about sports and the Olympics.
Upper-Intermediate
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The Saddest Movie I Have Ever Seen
This warmer is an enjoyable way to talk about movies and use of superlative adjectives and the present perfect simple.
Pre-Intermediate to Intermediate
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World Leaders: Nelson Mandela
This warmer gets students to read and think about the life of a famous person and focus on the use of prepositions.
Upper-Intermediate Lesson Updated: 5 December 2013
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The Real Heroes
Encouraging students to think about real heroes - people who make a difference in the community.
Pre-Intermediate
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Create Your Own Superhero
A warmer that promotes discussion and creativity and helps students use and review adjectives and the simple present tense.
Elementary
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Obstacle Course
If you have active students who like to move around, this will help them review prepositions of place and movement and movement and motion verbs.
Elementary
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How Would You Like To Pay?
This warmer is a four-part activity that gets learners practicing the language for buying something in a store. Functional language exercises, dialog and roleplay work.
Intermediate
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Famous People: Prince William, Kate and George
This warmer gets students to look for specific information about Britain's future King and his wife Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, to complete a table.
Intermediate Lesson Updated: 26 July 2013
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