a lesson on summer holidays containing speaking, reading and writing opportunities, along with a good range of idioms and words to add to their knowledge. This lesson is for C1 / advanced students only.

12 different activities to use with children or adults - learners of any ages; EAL or tutor group time; with friends or family, not necessarily in a learning environment. Bundle includes: torrance test write a comic stripe write in secret code circle art square art triangle art invent a word impossibilities name these dogs abstract concepts what will happen? visual alphabet Activities cover language and artistic creativity.

Three colours, twelve categories: colours, body parts, stationery items, professions, movies, countries, proper names, household objects, food and drinks, cities, animals and famous people. How to play: place both packs upside down and take one card from each pack at the same time. Players need to think of a word that belongs to the category picked and that starts with the letter that matches its colour. The fastest player wins. Can play in a team or against individuals. Recommendation: laminate before using.

Used this for IELTS essays, but it’s good for pretty much any subject and long pieces of writing / essays. Easily adaptable; my criteria is describe, explain and evaluate. Each worth 5 marks tops (1 mark for grade E, 2 for D, 3 for C, 4 for B and 5 for A/A*). Total worth is 15 points. Works really well with students if they are familiar with it. At the end of the doc they get a WWW and EBI, plus an improvement task we can give them to action upon getting the feedback.

20 adaptable games and ideas (game boards, cards…) appropriate for KS3-5. All you need to do is fill in the document with your own input and print it off. Instructions included. Suitable for any subject. Challenge track the chase game fortune teller connect 5 cube diamond 9 dominoes fast-talking game heads or tails hexagons hexbusters learning grid parcheesi matching pencil, paper and dice games ping pong study prep chutes and ladders taboo top trumps word puzzle

15 Halloween-related questions to break the ice at the start of the lesson. Students are meant to talk in pairs, then share their own or their peer’s opinions with the rest of the group. Easily adaptable if necessary; I use this resource every year with B1 and B2 students. Give them a couple of minutes to respond, then move onto the next question. The idea is they spend a good amount of time talking about Halloween, practising their aural and spoken skills. This task practises a range of tenses.