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Activity: vocabulary tennis

By Miguel | February 29th, 2008
This is an activity that requires no setting up and can be done at the drop of a hat just the kind of activity that I love to have in my toolbox! Essentially, the idea is to promote automatization through quick responses, under moderately stressful conditions. Aim: learners will recycle vocabulary and/or create short sentences [...]
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Recycling specific vocabulary: the vocabox

By Miguel | February 15th, 2008
The Vocabox Activities for developing and activating vocabulary in the English classroom (the original idea came from Johanna Stirling July 2000 Bell Teacher Training Summerfest). The original article can be found here: http://www.elgweb.net/articles.html. A review of Johanna’s site can be found on this site, here. Introduction One constantly hears of presenting this that and the [...]
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Drawing dictation

By Miguel | February 10th, 2008
Drawing dictation is an activity adapted from Christopher Sion’s excellent: Recipes for Tired Teachers. Download the plan here Download the key here. Aim: To introduce and recycle simple lexis related to geometry in a project. Level: Pre-int and higher. Materials: The plan and key. Time: For all stages, allow 180 minutes depending on how you [...]
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Babel test

Here you can download the Babel Placement Test. All these files are in pdf format. The information found on this page is available in the babel test information pages. babel test information The test itself The candidate answer sheet The marking scheme The score converter Benchmarking The Babel English Language Placement Tests The Babel English [...]