He Said She Said Circle – TEFL Activity

He Said She Said Circle is a simple activity for students to practice their reported speech‏‎ (also known as indirect speech). Ideally you should run this activity after a lesson where students have been working on reported speech. If not, you should quickly run over the rules and principles of […]


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Sentence Completion – sentence activity

Sentence Completion is a TEFL activity which can be used to practice different forms of sentences‏‎. It works well with different verb forms‏‎, conditionals‏‎ and so on. Preparation Write out a series of sentences which are examples of the kind of sentence/verb structure you want to practice, and put them […]


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Act an Adverb‏‎ – adverb activity

Act an Adverb is a simple game which you can play with different levels‏‎ and ages of class. It is based around the meaning and use of different adverbs‏‎. Preparation Prepare a set of flashcards‏‎, each of which has an adverb on it, e.g. happily quietly sadly carefully crazily (You […]


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How to Make Good Feng Shui for the Zodiac Animals

Fengshui (风水), literally ‘wind-water’, pronounced fnng-shway, is an ancient Chinese philosophy studying the auspiciousness of environments, based on Yin-Yang Theory and Five Elements Theory. It’s a form of geomancy. Fengshui philosophy states that qi (气 /chee/ ‘energy’) exists in all things and is the life of the nature. The core […]


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