How important is _____ to you?
Wednesday, November 6
Mad Libbing
How important is _____ to you?
Thursday, October 31
Horror
Some examples:
On mute
No coffee
Google translate
Vomit everywhere
Shopping centre
Biology class
No wifi
Wednesday, October 30
Scary Things
1, Spoilers
2, Life
3, The shower
4, Mothers
5, A ghost
6, Spiders
Friday, October 11
Impossible
Here are some things that – according to my students – are impossible:
1, Being a mermaid
2, Living on the sun
3, Flying
4, Never going to school
5, Getting a 10 in Biology
6, Studying medicine
7, Sucking your elbow
Are they actually impossible?
How could they be achieved?
Which would be the easiest / hardest to achieve?
Drawing by Alejandra
Thursday, October 10
Tuesday, October 8
Pangrams
Sunday, October 6
Reminder
Friday, October 4
Saturday, September 28
What's the Question? (using pictures)
Using a photo (no photo included in this post) create some answers related to the photo (before class or learners in groups with their own):
2, Late afternoon
3, A house
4, Yes, on the right hand side
5, No
6, A young family
7, They are playing tennis
Now decide what the questions could be for these answers by looking at the photo:
Friday, September 27
Excuses Excuses
Thursday, September 26
Monday, September 23
Restlessness
Here are some forms of transport:
1, car | plane | UFO
2, camel | elephant | magic carpet
3, skateboard | train | horse
Choose one group of three words and answer the questions:
1, Which ones have things in common?
2, Which is the (___est / most ___)
3, If the ___ could speak, what would it say?
4, What advice would the ____ give to its children?
5, Can you create a new transport using two words?
(example magic camel (include a brief explanation))
Thursday, September 19
Respect
1, Here are some reasons you might get into trouble at school:
Not doing homeworkUsing a mobile phone when you shouldn't
Punching another student in the playground
Insulting another student in the playground
Speaking to friends in class
Can you rank them in order of the one that gets you into the MOST trouble to the one that gets you into the LEAST trouble. Compare and justify your answers.
Hitting someone
Hitting someone back
Stealing food from the school canteen
Stealing someone’s lunch
Calling another pupil a bad name
Calling a teacher a a bad name
Saturday, September 14
Positive Thinking
What are you good at? (a sport, hobby or subject at school etc.)
5, Who/What stops you from doing it?
Wednesday, September 11
Tuesday, September 10
Grandparents
(Poem style inspired by Michael Rosen)
I can smell soap, socks, food and air freshener
At my grandparents house
I have to eat lentils
At my grandparents house
My grandad doesn't drink water
he drinks Fanta
There are old photos, old films
an old TV and a rocking chair
At my grandparents house
They ask me how things work.
They ask me for my dads mobile number (again)
and they call me by my sisters name
At my grandparents house
I talk about school, do my homework
I think about my future
I think about pizza
Sunday, September 8
Length
Saturday, September 7
Be Yourself
Be Yourself
Be calm and aware
Be who why and where?
Be the child looking up
Be the team with no cup
Be the road that takes longer
Be the battery that gets stronger
Be the film without a script
Be the chocolate amongst the chips
Be the experiment that fails
Be the fish with no scales
Be the stranger thats kind
Be the stars unaligned
Breathe in. Breath out
Sit straight. Stand tall
Dare to be true
Dare to be you
Friday, September 6
Thursday, September 5
Unlimited
Monday, September 2
Rules
Sunday, September 1
Friday, August 30
Talking About Pictures
I often show photos from the BBC news in pictures website (week in pictures is good) in class. A lot of news websites do them.
Choose one and answer some of the questions:1, What do you see and think?
2, Speculate and wonder.
3, Give an opinion. Criticise it.
4, Ask 'What would happen if...?'
5, Why is ___ actually...? (example: Why is the man actually protesting?)
6, How could I do this? (be part of or do what is in the picture)
7, Find a similarity with the picture and your life.
8, What might have happened before the picture was taken?
9, What might happen next if the picture became a video?
Tuesday, August 27
Name 4
Can you name 4...
2, adjectives that end in ed
3, foods that are orange
4, household tasks
5, words that end in y
6, words that start with z
7, adjectives that collocate with problem
8, words that end in less
9, things you normally keep in the freezer
Sunday, August 25
Situations
Imagine you are in a fast-food restaurant.
What language would you use for each of these situations in a fast-food restaurant? Write sentences.
2) Refuse to do something
3) Justify your opinion
4) Make a suggestion
5) Persuade somebody
6) Complain about something
7) Instruct somebody
8) Apologise to somebody
9) Fake / feign something
Saturday, August 24
Keep 3
You can only keep 3
2, Cake
3, Pizza
4, Dogs
5, Netflix
6, Books
7, Cats
8, Chocolate
9, Chips
Which three would you keep? and why?
What are some of your reasons for not choosing the others?
Wednesday, August 21
Utensils
Which is the most useful?
If you make them bigger, what could they become? (e.g knife – sword)
Tuesday, August 20
The Wind
Challenge: Starting with one word, write an extra word each line until you have 7 words. No rules. See what you come up with.
was strong
very very strong
I lost something important
The wind DESTROYED our house
The wind was very very dangerous
You can't hit the wind. It's invisible
wind
it's annoying
very annoying
It is very annoying
It is cold and annoying
It is cold and very annoying
It is very cold and very annoying
wind
Friday, August 16
Variations
Using this sentence:
Rewrite it using an idea from below
3) Use 'must' in the sentence
4) Make a prediction starting with 'I think'
5) Put the sentence into reported speech
6) Rewrite the sentence without using the letter A
7) Write the opposite of the sentence (nouns and verbs only)
8) Start with 'In this picture...'
9) Rewrite in the passive
2) Rewrite so that each word Starts with the same letter
3) Use Some similes
4) Use Anadiplosis
5) Start with No sooner
6) Use Personification
7) Rewrite using the word Foregone in the sentence
8) Use Deduction
9) Rewrite without using the letter A