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Icebreakers and Warmers

• What's Your Name?
• Scramble Tell
• Introduce My Picture
• Five of a Kind
• How Well do you Know your Classmates?

Activities for Speaking Fluency

• Mad Discussion
• Guess my Story
• Strangers on a Plane
• Gossip Board

Activities for Reading Skills

• Methods for Pre-teaching Vocabulary
• Stand Up When You Hear...
• Post Reading Activities

Activities for Listening Skills

• Student-generated Listening Tasks
• Please Interrupt Me!
• Identifying Listening Difficulties

Revision Activities

• Grammar Auction
• Board Race
• Self-generated Grammar Revision

Lesson Plans

• Likes and Dislikes (beginner)

Pronunciation Activities

• Telephone Numbers
• Hold up the Sound
• What's my Sound?

TESOL Methodology and Opinion Articles

• 15 Ways to Shut Up
• Using Video in the Classroom
• Teaching Collocations
• To transcribe or not to transcribe?
• What Makes a Good Speaking Activity?