EFL Vocabulary Games In the Trinity exams, it’s important that students have a wide range of vocabulary about each of the subject areas. But learning vocabulary can be a chore – students need to meet and use the language on […]
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Official Trinity Resources – Worksheets from the Spoken Learner Corpus
Spoken Learner Corpus In recent years, Trinity College London has been working in collaboration with the Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science at Lancaster University to build up a corpus of spoken language used in GESE exams at B1-C2 […]
Using Emoji in the Classroom – a back-to-school activity
The first class back to school after the holidays can sometimes be a drag – students are often tired and not particularly motivated to jump straight back into the curriculum. So here is a fun activity you can use to […]
EFL Activities for Practising Question Formation
Question formation is notoriously difficult for EFL learners – problems include difficulties with word order, using the wrong question word and troubles with auxiliaries. And as we all know, asking questions is a big part of the Trinity exams – it’s […]
Letter to Father Christmas Template
FREE DOWNLOAD – A1 and A2 levels Ho Ho Ho… It’s that time of year of again…Christmas is a-coming and it’s time to think about activities to do in the class. One of our favourites for younger learners is to […]
Dictation in the EFL Classroom
The other day, I mentioned in passing to a group of teachers that I had done a dictation in the classroom. This produced cries of horror – “I can’t believe you did a dictation; that’s so 1950s!”, “Don’t you get […]
Ten Ways to use Flashcards
Flashcards are a wonderful resource – they really help students to associate names with pictures and remember vocabulary. And, you can use them in so many different ways to teach and revise vocabulary. Kids (and adults!) love playing games with […]
Generic Board Game
Here’s a board game you can use with the Conversation Question Cards, or any types of questions! FREE DOWNLOAD!!!
Ten Ways to Use Conversation Question Cards
Conversation question cards are a great resource to have in your repertoire – you can pull them out at the end of the class when you have a few minutes to spare and they mean you don’t ever have to […]