http://teacherlingo.com/search/SearchResults.aspx?o=DateDescending&tag=games,lesson+plans&orTags=0Search results matching tags 'games' and 'lesson plans'en-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Debug Build: 61120.2)http://teacherlingo.com/blogs/a_clil_to_climb1/archive/2011/11/27/eltbites-challenge-we-like-to-move-it-move-it.aspxSun, 27 Nov 2011 12:50:00 GMT2d57f927-24f1-4f58-a78a-cbbebe5f5d42:540321AnonymousOnce in a while I read something and I find myself thinking, "Now, why didn't I think of that?". Well, Richard Gresswell had such an idea. He started a blog, called it ELTBITES, and challenged us: "Describe an activity that requires no more than the teacher, students, and possibly making use of the board, pens, and paper. Describe the activity aims and procedure concisely in no more than 200http://teacherlingo.com/blogs/a_clil_to_climb1/archive/2010/11/21/using-cartoon-strips-to-practice-dialogues.aspxSun, 21 Nov 2010 23:47:00 GMT2d57f927-24f1-4f58-a78a-cbbebe5f5d42:381161AnonymousNeed some novel way to enliven your class? The traditional way of practising dialogue is to have students work in pairs (or groups), prepare their dialogues, then role-play them, maybe in front of the classroom. Instead of doing that, why don't you get them to prepare a comic strip first (after working on expressions, vocabulary, etc., of course). Either have them do it on the fly in thehttp://teacherlingo.com/blogs/a_clil_to_climb1/archive/2010/11/10/how-to-make-a-telephone-call-games-activities.aspxWed, 10 Nov 2010 12:22:00 GMT2d57f927-24f1-4f58-a78a-cbbebe5f5d42:376176AnonymousLast published on 15 Nov 2009. This version has been reworked and supersedes the older version.         Do you have trouble making a telephone call in English? Do you get nervous when you don't understand the person on the other end? Are you familiar with most of  the basic telephone language? In this post, I will  try to help you improve your telephone skills byhttp://teacherlingo.com/blogs/a_clil_to_climb1/archive/2010/10/25/teaching-students-to-ask-questions.aspxMon, 25 Oct 2010 22:10:00 GMT2d57f927-24f1-4f58-a78a-cbbebe5f5d42:370940AnonymousMany students have problems structuring questions correctly. It could be that this is due to their teachers asking the questions most of the time, or it could just be that constructing questions in English is somewhat more complicated than in other languages. Let's run through the main rules again. First, make sure students know what an auxiliary verb is. An auxiliary verb is a 'helping verb'. Ithttp://teacherlingo.com/blogs/a_clil_to_climb1/archive/2010/05/15/earth-s-atmosphere-quiz.aspxSat, 15 May 2010 22:05:00 GMT2d57f927-24f1-4f58-a78a-cbbebe5f5d42:344566AnonymousAre we in the troposphere or the stratosphere? Where do spaceships fly? How thick is the Earth's atmosphere? Check out your knowledge of the Earth's atmosphere in this entertaining quiz. Teachers, please note that if an email is provided, a review of the quiz is sent to it automatically.http://teacherlingo.com/blogs/a_clil_to_climb1/archive/2010/04/27/art-proportions-of-the-human-form-how-to-draw-a-face.aspxTue, 27 Apr 2010 10:47:00 GMT2d57f927-24f1-4f58-a78a-cbbebe5f5d42:343272AnonymousThis presentation attempts to summarise the basic points of proportions of our body parts, especially with regards to the head. It also includes a tutorial on how to draw a face. My gratitude goes to José Alberto of IES Tarahales for sharing his expertise on the tutorial, without which  the presentation would have been lacking a vital part. The presentation may be downloaded from either Scribd orhttp://teacherlingo.com/blogs/a_clil_to_climb1/archive/2010/03/29/at-the-airport-putting-dialogue-in-sequence-matching-jigsaw.aspxMon, 29 Mar 2010 10:30:00 GMT2d57f927-24f1-4f58-a78a-cbbebe5f5d42:340471AnonymousMy original posts on dialogue at the airport check-in and at the passport control have been rather popular, so I decided to improve them slightly here. They have been combined into one quiz, and a matching vocabulary exercise has been added, too. If you provide a valid email address, the results of the quiz along with the correct answers will be sent to it automatically. Both the dialogues can behttp://teacherlingo.com/blogs/a_clil_to_climb1/archive/2009/10/12/ideas-for-halloween-in-the-classroom.aspxMon, 12 Oct 2009 19:03:00 GMT2d57f927-24f1-4f58-a78a-cbbebe5f5d42:308200AnonymousIn two weeks, Halloween is with us again. What have you got lined up for this year? Here are just a few ideas to help you get going. To introduce/revise vocabulary related to Halloween, I've set up a PowerPoint presentation. Show the slide first, then elicit the word before revealing it. It's appropriate for basic level upwards. To display it properly, you'd need to download it. You may have tohttp://teacherlingo.com/blogs/a_clil_to_climb1/archive/2009/09/26/jumbled-sentences-the-states-of-matter-science-secondary-1-year-7.aspxSat, 26 Sep 2009 12:27:00 GMT2d57f927-24f1-4f58-a78a-cbbebe5f5d42:282110AnonymousThis is an activity where what you see is a set or words in random order. What you have to do is to arrange them in the correct order. When you have done that, email me with your answers, and I'll correct them. The activity is in a PowerPoint presentation hosted in Scribd. You can move from slide to slide interactively by just clicking on the 'next page' and 'previous page' arrows. If the imagehttp://teacherlingo.com/blogs/a_clil_to_climb1/archive/2009/09/20/ideas-for-using-videos-in-the-classroom.aspxSun, 20 Sep 2009 21:09:00 GMT2d57f927-24f1-4f58-a78a-cbbebe5f5d42:279700AnonymousAs teachers, we have to be innovative,  to keep up with the times, so to speak. The days of teaching with a book, chalk and blackboard are long gone now. Every year, more and more schools are installing digital boards, more classes are having projectors and white boards, if not a screen, and it won't be long before every class will be equipped with a complete audiovisual system, computer included