Following on from my list of top articles from last year, here are the PDFs that I am most likely to use again in my own classes. In addition, there are over 900 pages of photocopiables in my three new e-books of 2020, at least two thirds of which were brand new.
How many are there? trivia quiz
Classroom language for Zoom classes activities
Can a Kangaroo Drink your Blood? animal abilities mix and match
Direct, indirect and taboo small talk questions
Good and bad subject questions speaking game
Words with silent letters discussion questions
Opinions on the news and media
IELTS Speaking Part Three functions card game
Subject questions trivia quizzes
Present Perfect Simple and Continuous small talk
Present Progressive for the present and future simplest responses game
Recommendations and invitations for visitors review
Positive and negative responses in a restaurant games
Dictating longer and longer checking/ clarifying games
Does the American Flag Have Eleven Eyes? have with numbers mix and match
Silent letters secret message code game
How many… are there? spelling games
Is a Cockroach Pretty? adjectives and animals mix and match
Times discuss and agree (discussion to practise time expressions)
Silent letters storytelling activity
Silent letters pelmanism and snap
Is a Diamond Louder than the Pyramids? comparative adjectives mix and match
Unreal past sentence completion games
Subject questions discussion activities
Stronger and weaker hedging language
Reporting on reports (useful language for talking about and writing reports, including hedging/ generalising)
Gerunds and infinitives storytelling activity
Is a Rainbow Brown? colours mix and match
First contact brainstorming and jigsaw and First contact functions card game (email, telephone and face to face)
Language learning materials reviews (learner training and useful vocabulary for reviews)
Ranking weak and strong opinion phrases
Classroom instructions numbers and word recognition TPR practice
Mr Men daily routines activities
Do You Wash the TV at Seven O’Clock? questions about daily routines mix and match
Family vocabulary and possessive S reversi memory game
Film, book and song titles with subject questions
Feelings adjectives sounds game (with gradable and extreme adjectives)
Verb plus gerund and infinitive sentence completion games
Inversion presentation and practice
Don’t Slap Your Teacher classroom instructions imperative mix and match
Business acronyms and abbreviations presentation
Words with silent letters hangman
Life events vocabulary speaking (ask and tell coin game and storytelling, with collocations and word formation practice)
Different ways of saying numbers reversi memory game
Should and should have things in common
Words with silent letters the same or different
Silent letters odd one out game
Design an aquarium (with lots of sea life vocabulary)
Be with nouns and adjectives games
CPE Use of English sentence transformations on speculating language
Does he/ she/ it have…? drawing and coin games
Colours, numbers and shapes collaborative drawing game
Cambridge Proficiency (CPE) Use of English practice of inversion (mainly for sentence transformations, but including other parts too)
Silent letters and rhyming words activities
Reported speech the same or different
Cambridge Proficiency (CPE) Use of English Part Three word formation hangman
Meeting people and small talk yes/no questions games (a nice warmer for social English and yes/ no questions)
Meeting for the first time and again needs analysis and questions review (a nice first lesson for social English, question formation, or indeed any course where students are meeting you or each other for the first time)
Describing social issues with the passive voice
Names of jobs subject questions quiz
Suffixes for describing people subject questions quiz
Animals guessing game and discussion
How questions and answers the same or different
Prepositions of time pairwork guessing game
Subject questions drawing game (with animal vocabulary and clothes vocabulary)
Subject questions about this class
Subject questions personalised quizzes
Is there & Are there plus prepositions mix and match
Indirect questions extended speaking
How questions practice roleplays
How questions simplest responses game
Reporting verbs the same or different
People related to crime subject questions quiz
Is it a/ an…? with adjectives pick and draw
Present Continuous and prepositions of position drawing game
Verb patterns with reporting verbs activities
Describing festivals and celebrations subject questions practice
Weather, clothes, times and Present Continuous mix and match
Past, present and future weekends storytelling
Adverbs of frequency and likes/ dislikes
House, family and prepositions games
Present Perfect and the future sentence completion games
Present Continuous and like with -ing sounds and questions
Life events vocabulary speaking
Small talk questions with how roleplays
Is there…? Are there any…? coin drawing game
It is/ They are with adjectives pick and draw
Whose…? possessive adjectives drawing games
Cambridge Proficiency (CPE) Use of English Part 4 Sentence Transformations on verb patterns
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