Countable or Uncountable?

Explanation (in Spanish) + exercises

Explanation (in English)

VIDEO: ALSO, SOME, ANY. Countable and uncountable nouns: food. A Mini English Lesson

EXERCISES: AGENDAWEB.ORG

Impersonal passive and passive infinitive (advanced)

 

EXPLANATION IN SPANISH

Exercise 1 : rewrite the sentences in impersonal passive

Exercise 2: write the sentences in the impersonal passive voice using different tenses

Exercise 3: Finish the sentences using personal and impersonal passive constructions

Exercise 4: personal passive

EXERCISES ON INFINITIVE PASSIVE

Exercise 1: do it orally

LINK TO THE CAUSATIVE PASSIVE

Christmas lesson plans

A1 - 1 ESO Elementary, from the British Council

A2- 2 ESO- pre-intermediate Lessonn plan from The British Council 

Multi level lesson plan from ESL Pals (it also has interesting debate topics for higher levels)

C1/C2 - IB or 2 batx, from ESL Pals

Different levels, from ESOL courses.

C1 - IB - 2n batxillerat - advanced lesson plan from Cambridge English

List of Adverbs to Strengthen Your Writing

 List of Adverbs to Strengthen Your Writing

Don't overuse them! MANUSCRIPT  MENTORING - We Help You Grow Your Writing (9min read)

Dependent prepositions (C1) and other tricky prepositions

Dependent prepositions are prepositions which follow a verb, noun or adjective. They don’t change the meaning of the word as with phrasal verbs.

 EXPLANATION + EXERCISES (Spanish)

The preposition AT (advanced level) (Spanish)

In, On and At: Dealing with Tricky Prepositions in English

Describing people

LESSON PLAN (A1)

You can do the game Who is Who? In the class. Everybody stands up. The teacher (or another student) says:

This person is tall (everybody who is not tall sits down)

This person has fair hair (everyboy who hasn't got fair hair sits down)

This person is a boy (all the girls sit down)

Etc, until one person is left.

or

Game 2: everyboyd knows the person being described except one person in the class, who has to guess who the student is by listening to their classmates.

or

Game 3: the student at the front can only ask YES7NO questions until he/she guesses the person.

Game 4: students/teacher could dictate how to draw a monster to the students/classmates: It has one big head, three eyes and one big nose,etc.

or

Game 5: Walking dictation: The teacher dictates what the monster looks like sentenece by sentence and the student group leaders go back to their groups to repeat the sentence and get another one to draw what they're repeating.

FAMILY AND DESCRIPTIONS

POSSESSIVE -S: SAXON GENITIVE

 

EXPLANATION  with exercises (British Council)

FULL EXPLANATION with exercises

VIDEO LESSON

Exercises

More difficult exercises

WORDWALL GAMES

COMMUNICATIVE GAMES:

Here are some communicative options:

1. Whose is it? – Classroom detective

2. Guess my classmate
   Students secretly choose someone in the class and give clues using possessions/relationships:

   • This is Laura’s best friend.
   • His pencil case is black.
   • That’s his brother’s football shirt.
   • 
     
3. Possessive ’s speed dating

        Students sit in two rows facing each other. Put a question on the board: “Find out three things             about your partner’s family/friends.” They have 90 seconds:

• What’s your brother’s name?
• What’s your mother’s favourite food?
• What’s your best friend’s favourite sport?
• Then one row moves one seat.