Over on my Facebook page I shared a What Worked Well section and I thought it would be a great idea to bring it to my website. These are free resources that I would like to share with you and give you an idea of what I have in my Resource Centre. If you’d like to keep in touch then please sign up to my newsletter, which is sent out every Sunday.
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Worked Well Wednesday 1
Odd One Out (also called Spot the Intruder) is a Conti-style low prep activity that is great for recycling previously learned vocabulary. You can do if for any level by theme or just as a quick starter to review a range of useful vocab.
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Worked Well Wednesday 2
Mosaic Translation is a listening activity but it is actually one of the activities that I really like to do in pairs or small groups as a ‘quieter’ translation / reading activity. You can also springboard from this to other reinforcement activities.
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Worked Well Wednesday 3
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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Worked Well Wednesday 4
This Missing Words No Gaps exercise is great for all levels of learners - it is a scripted listening exercise to encourage a more thorough processing of aural text. It can then be used to springboard onto other activities.
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Worked Well Wednesday 5
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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Worked Well Wednesday 6
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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Worked Well Wednesday 7
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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Worked Well Wednesday 8
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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Worked Well Wednesday 9
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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Worked Well Wednesday 10
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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Worked Well Wednesday 11
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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Worked Well Wednesday 12
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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Worked Well Wednesday 13
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.
Additional examples here and here
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Worked Well Wednesday 14
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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Worked Well Wednesday 15
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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Worked Well Wednesday 16
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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Un Beau Jardin
A set of intermediate worksheets focussing on building vocabulary on gardens and outdoor life, this comes with 2 audio recordings by a native speaker
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Un Weekend à Bordeaux
This set of advanced worksheets is accompanied by audio recordings by a female native voice and includes activities such as true/false listening
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No Snakes No Ladders
A great exercise for beginners to practise speaking out loud and testing themselves on their new vocabulary - while having fun!
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