English Speaking Activities
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Speaking activity
Tiny Victories
In this speaking activity, students read a card about a small daily victory and retell it as if it were a life-changing success, exaggerating with strong adjectives and intensifiers to practise speaking in a playful, dramatic way.
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Life Comments – Perfect Modals
In this activity, students read short life posts and write different comments using Perfect Modals. They practise expressing guesses, emotions, and advice about past experiences.
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Plan It, Do It
In this activity, students practise Future with 'to be going to' for plans and Present Continuous for fixed arrangements. They read a person’s to-do list and make sentences in context.
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Life In Pictures
Students explore an Instagram profile with six photos and create sentences about the person’s life, hobbies, food, and free time while practising the Present Simple with he/she/it + -s.
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My Happy Basket
In this activity, students make a “happy basket” for a day, a morning, or for work by choosing five special objects to put inside and explaining why each one gives them joy, comfort, or motivation.
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Why Do People - to, so as to, in order to, so that
In this activity, students discuss everyday actions and practise forming purpose clauses (to, in order to, so as to, so that) through speaking tasks that help them use the grammar in context.
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What Is the Right Spelling 4.0 - Genial.ly
In this activity, students test their spelling skills in a fun, fast-paced Genial.ly quiz and reflect on which words they found the trickiest.
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Never Have I Ever – Back from Summer Edition
In this back-from-summer speaking game, students share fun, true (or made-up) stories about their holiday experiences while practising past tenses and asking follow-up questions.
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Let’s Talk About Summer
In this activity, students click on stamps with questions about summer and talk about their own experiences. They practise natural conversation and personal storytelling.
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Grammar activity
Life Forecast - Perfect Tenses
In this activity, students use Past Perfect, Present Perfect, and Future Perfect to build a short life story. They practise fluency, sequence, and prediction.
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Before or After
In this activity, students talk about when everyday actions happen. They say if something usually happens before or after another thing, using time expressions and full sentences.
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Influencer Talk – Intensifiers for Adjectives
In this activity, students give a convincing review of a product or experience using strong adjectives and intensifiers.
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