On this page you can find some activities which I’ve used with my students.  Feel free to download them and use them in your classes.  Please double-check these fully-editable activities before you use them as you may need to change some parts which are aimed more at students in Spain.

GAMES

A 2 Day in 5 – A fun dictation activity for teens, from Catherine Morley

Starters, Movers and Flyers dice games (speaking practice)

KET and PET dice games (speaking practice – part 1)

ISE Foundation dice game

One-Board Games – Starters, Movers  and Flyers Question sheets and FCE revsision questions

Perfect Tenses Revision – A fun activity for upper-intermediate students to practise perfect tenses

Present Perfect Board Game – A board game for students to practise the Present Perfect Simple.  Suitable for teens and adults

Question word match– A pelmanism activity to practise question words and simple questions.  Suitable for elementary teens and adults

GRAMMAR

Reported Speech – A grammar guide with common reporting verbs and a transformation exercise

A Bad Day – A reading comprehension with an FCE-level cloze which can lead on to a discussion with the third conditional

VOCAB

Key Word Transformations – A PowerPoint activity for FCE students in which they have to transform the given word to complete the sentence

WORKSHEETS

El Español de la Historia – Lesson plan, especially suitable for teachers in Spain

Planking – Handout to accompany my lesson plan on the Australian craze of planking

Time – An infoshare for elementary teens.  Students order the words to make questions and then ask their partner for the answers

When I was a kid, I wanted to be Superman – A multiple-choice cloze for FCE students in which they must fill in the gaps and then order the story.

World Cup Fever – Worksheets accompanying the 2010 World Cup PowerPoint that you can find here.  It includes a vocabulary exercise on nationalities and languages, 2 sets of an information share and questions for the football game.