Almost all of my learners at every level feel that they forget the ‘little’ words and that this holds up their spontaneity when speaking. I love using Conti’s Disappearing Words activity to work on this and regularly weave these into lessons to extend tasks or to use as starters or exit tasks. It is such an easy-to-prep and effective activity to build automaticity.

I love using Conti's Mosaic Translation to highlight patterns in the structures that we are working. Using colour and highlighters can really draw out these patterns and create a great basis for modelling.

There are several examples of Mosaics in our Resource Centre & our Shop - this set of worksheets for intermediate/A level learners is great to revise the theme of pollution

The Fast & Furious activity is designed to encourage learners to repeat orally (and also in a written form if you prefer) structures that they are working on following lots of input activities with the aim of building automaticity.

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Reading out loud is so important for learners. It requires more effort than reading silently and not only focuses learners on the meaning of what they are reading but on how they are saying the phrases – pronunciation, liaisons, silent sounds, rise and fall... . I also find that many of my learners self-correct to reread a sentence differently to ensure that how they say the sentence contributes to conveying the meaning of the sentence – suggesting a deeper understanding of what is being read.

Spot the Difference is a really great way to encourage learners to listen intently and focus on specific vocab, a specific tense, a time phrase, numbers, times, dates - anything we are currently working on or I think we could recycle.

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Like almost all of the activities we share, Battleships works brilliantly with learners of all ages and levels and it is a fantastic activity to focus on structures that you are working on. I love it for practising tenses - and so do my learners!

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Aural Sentence Scramble is just like a normal sentence scramble but instead of reading, the learners listen to you reading the sentences all scrambled up and they have to jot the words down in the correct order & it can be quite tricky!

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Oral Ping Pong is usually done in pairs, and encourages learners to practise what they have been working in a highly organised and structured way. I usually develop the ping pongs from a passage that we have already worked on

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Pyramid Translation is a great activity to promote automaticity with structures that you are working on through repetition and my learners always feel such a sense of accomplishment when the activity is completed.

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The new exercise Staircase Translation is a fantastic activity to review structures whilst also enhancing challenge for the learners as they progress through the activity. It can be done as an oral or a written exercise.

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Disappearing Words is a very easy to prep activity that is a fantastic way to encourage repetition to help learners remember key structures. It is a great oral activity that can also encourage learners to concentrate on their pronunciation.

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Bingo is a low prep activity which is a fantastic way to review tenses, vocabulary, questions and numbers. It’s also a great way to engage all learners at every level.

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Noughts & Crosses is a fabulous activity to retrieve vocabulary and structures and you can use the grid in many different ways.

It can also springboard into lots of other activities for deeper review work and it is a great way to engage all learners of all levels.

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Circle the Word not heard is a great activity to recycle vocabulary, practise numbers and also really focus learners on sounds.

It can also springboard into lots of other activities for further review work and it works well with learners of all levels.

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If you would like to encourage your learners to use linking words then the Link Up activity is very useful.

You can also use it to work on existing structures and practise speaking and writing skills.

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Listening Slalom is a lovely way to encourage your learners to develop their listening skills and can be adapted to use with lots of different themes

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