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Make up compound nouns piece by piece, using our imagination, because it's not always the compound word that has something in common with what it consists of. Look at the pictures, combine 2 simple images to get a new compound noun. The task is not as simple as it might seem at first glance, so the answers are attached. Get it in the comments for free. + more games to practice compound nouns: VK or TPT.

Similes make speech more beautiful, expressive, and natural. Keep a couple of worksheets that will introduce students to the expressions. Bright images will help create a strong association with the phrase, making it easier to remember and use in speech. The file in the comments. + more similes here: VK or TPT.

Cool speaking cards for practicing the days of the week and daily activities. Students make sentences by paying attention to the preposition ON. You can only drill one tense or several, using marker words (this, last, next). For stronger students, you can complicate the task and suggest continuing the situation by explaining why? For example, I usually eat pancakes and drink milk on Friday, because my granny visits us every Friday. The file in the comments.

Check the knowledge of Irregular Verbs. File in the comments. More tasks here: - PDF: VK or TPT - PPT: VK or TPT

Animal action cards will diversify your classes, become a great workout or warming up activity and brighten up the 5 minutes remaining until the end of the lesson. How to use: - divide the cards into 2 piles and ask one person to take one from both piles and then the children all together try to show the action on the card (chew like a cow/run like a penguin etc). It'll be fun! - play Charades. The leader takes the card from both piles secretly and shows the animal performing a certain action. The rest are trying to guess this "unknown animal". Who guessed right first, becomes the next to show. - play Pictionary with teens. The leader takes one card from both piles so that the others couldn't see, and tries to draw, other students have to guess. Who guessed first, draws next. - the leader takes one cards from both piles and makes up a sentence with can/can't. This activity develops logic. Let the children decide what certain animal can or can't do. Grab it in the comments for free.

45 ridiculous questions with WOULD YOU RATHER on April fool's day. File in the comments.

Have Got Tic-tac-toe. To put your sign on the grid, students need to make correct sentences with the pictures (e.g. Suzie has got balloons). File in the comments. More Have Got stuff: VK or TPT

It's difficult to imagine our life today without messengers and chats, so let's practice comprehension skills through simple task - chat messaging. There are 4 types of chats in the file: 1. Find the interlocutors by logically connecting the two halves. 2. Read the answers and thank about what the initiator of the conversation might have said or asked. 3. Read the first part and react to it in any appropriate way. 4. Make up our own dialogues. In points 2 and 3, different options are possible, the main thing is that they logically fit. It's a great possibility to discuss modern messengers with beginners (teenagers or adults). Which ones they use, and which ones are no longer in fashion, which are the most and least convenient in their opinion. The file in the comments.

Refresh “House” vocabulary and use the logic. Students should find what is odd and also explain their choice. There are some obvious things, and some are suitable for discussions with teenagers and adults. There can be more than one variant. Get it in the comments for free. + more about House stuff: VK or TPT.

Practice the Weather vocabulary with the game Roll and Say. The players roll 2 dice (or one twice), determine the square on the board and: 🔹 drill the vocabulary by naming words or making simple sentences (It is hot/It is windy/It is hailing/ It is stormy etc.) 🔹 compare the picture with real weather conditions, for example: it's raining in the picture, and they still have winter, then they say: It is not rainy, it is snowy today. 🔹 write the famous capitals of the world on the pieces of paper, the students take turns taking the card, roll the dice and tell us what the weather is like in Lisbon or London. 🔹 an option for advanced users to practice different conditionals: If it is snowy, I will ski/If it was rainy, I would read a book at home etc. Get the file in the comments. + 16 Roll and Say Games here: VK or TPT

At your request, we continue the entertaining Maths and refresh the following vocabulary: Toys, Body, Head and face, Weather, School things. To do the puzzle, your students need to subtract some letters from the initial word, and add some, and then find the appropriate picture. Get it in the comments for free.

Ordinal Numbers Puzzle Ask students to imagine that they are builders who build modular houses from ready-made floors. Cut out parts of the house and a text describing them. Divide the students into mini groups or pairs, and give them the puzzles. Their task is to read and assemble the house piece by piece. After that they can compare the results and check each other. Get it in the comments for free. + More about ordinal numbers: VK or TPT

Special Questions Domino. It is necessary to make up a question based on the picture, find and give an answer to it. Get it in the comments for free. + More about Special Questions: VK or TPT.

Warm Up Cards. It is simply an indispensable tool in the lesson, which not only allows you to diversify various activities, but also adds unpredictability to them. Includes 3 types of cards: 1. Topics: animals, toys, clothes, fruits, jobs, hobbies, weather, body parts, my house, colours, school things, your choice. 2. Time: 40 sec, 1 min, 1.30 min, 2 min, 2.30 min, 3 min (each one 2 times). 3. Quantity: 2-12, as many as possible. You can use each one individually or combine 2 of them at a time: 🔹 Speaking. № 1+2 - children talk about a certain topic for the specified time, using the key structures. 🔹 Quick revision of vocabulary according to a topic. № 1+3 - children name as many words on the topic as it is said on the card. To make it more challenging, you can give them some time to manage (15-30 seconds). 🛍 Grab it in the comments for free. + Warm Up Dice: VK or TPT.

Warm Up Cards. It is simply an indispensable tool in the lesson, which not only allows you to diversify various activities, but also adds unpredictability to them. Includes 3 types of cards: 1. Topics: animals, toys, clothes, fruits, jobs, hobbies, weather, body parts, my house, colours, school things, your choice. 2. Time: 40 sec, 1 min, 1.30 min, 2 min, 2.30 min, 3 min (each one 2 times). 3. Quantity: 2-12, as many as possible. You can use each one individually or combine 2 of them at a time: 🔹 Speaking. № 1+2 - children talk about a certain topic for the specified time, using the key structures. 🔹 Quick revision of vocabulary according to a topic. № 1+3 - children name as many words on the topic as it is said on the card. To make it more challenging, you can give them some time to manage (15-30 seconds). № 2+3 - this combination can be used with absolutely any age and any level, just write any topics on the slips of paper, which you'd like to revise, and enjoy the activity. 🛍 Grab it in the comments for free. + Warm Up Dice: VK or TPT.

Guess your favoruite dishes by their ingredients. How to use: 🔹 Divide the students into groups and give out the cards with ingredients and menu cards. Their task is to find matches. Then discuss the options. 🔹 Divide the students into pairs or mini groups. Everyone chooses their favourite dish and tells the cooking process based on the ingredient cards. 🔹 Invite students to be creative chefs and imagine what other culinary masterpieces and drinks could be made from such products. They can add new ingredients or replace old ones. Ideas for the next lesson to consolidate: Divide the students into pairs, give them cards with ingredients. One calls the parts of the dish, the other tries to remember what will come of it, and vice versa, they try to name the ingredients of the final dish. Get it in the comments for free. + more about food: VK or TPT

To Be Posters (A4, A3). Grab it from the comments. + More about TO BE here: VK or TPT.

Wordmaker is a multifunctional game and an excellent 5-minute activity for spelling, suitable for any level and in any language. You can play anywhere: in the classroom, in the camp, in the park, in a speaking club or on a trip. If you laminate the boards, they will last much longer. This is a great option for fast-finishers or a quick activity at the end of the class. Grab it in the comments for free.

Let's talk about months! Bright speaking cards with simple, clear pictures will help students practice grammar structures in different tenses and refresh vocabulary from various topics, talk about past events, future plans or about the usual actions that we do in different seasons. You can practice one tense or all at once. Stronger students can add more details to the situation and explain their choice. Get it in the comments for free.

Prepositions of Place Matching Activity. You can either print the pages as worksheets or cut them to use as cards. - Students match the most logical ending to each sentence. - Students choose any part from the left column and match it with as many possible options from the right column as they can. Get the file in the comments. More activities with on/in/at: VK or TPT