Once 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 ...

This is a short exercise to put a telephone dialogue in the right sequence, appropriate for elementary level.

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Need 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). ...

This supersedes this post: http://acliltoclimb.blogspot.com/2009/08/dialogue-at-airport-check-in-matching.html You may also like this one: http://acliltoclimb.blogspot.com/2010/03/at-airport-putting-dialogue-in-sequence.html

See also At the Airport: Putting Dialogue in Sequence, Matching, Jigsaw

It would seem that quite a few games on dialogues published last year have disappeared from one of my file hosting sites, so I'll be recreating them and moving them to Google Sites. These are two parts of a dialogue on ordering a meal in a restaurant. It's also an idea to jumble the dialogue, and get the students to put them in order. Later, they ...

This game was first published on 23 July 2009, but I noticed that the source file has gone missing. I re-created it, and so, here it is. Students match the dialogue between a shop assistant and a customer. There isn't any time limit. I've also added another game based on the same dialogue. In this one, students need to put the dialogue in the ...

Many 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 ...

My 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 ...