How short films can help you improve your speaking skills

Room 8 is a short film, winner of the Bombay Sapphire's Imagination Series. It was

written and directed by James W. Griffiths.  A prisoner in a Russian prison is intrigued

by a red box which he was told to not touch . Should he open it? What will he find inside?

This film makes a great opportunity for discussion and speaking practice.

Watch and start the discussion! 

Here are some ideas for discussion:

1) Comprehension

• Where are the people?
• What is in the red box?
• Describe the room.
• Does the prisoner manage to escape? Why/why not?

2) Further discussion:

• What is the message (if any) of this short film?
• How does the idiom"curiosity killed the cat" apply to this story?
• What would have happened if the prisoner hadn't opened the box?
• What would you have done in the prisoner's place?

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This is why the Present Perfect tense is so popular

We use present perfect tense to talk about different things:

1) For actions which started at some time in the past and still continue in the present. (I've spoken English for a long time.)

2) For actions performed at an indefinite time between the past and now. (I've been to Engalnd twice.)

3) To describe life experiences. (She has never eaten sushi.)

Try this exercise to practise present perfect tense.

Present Perfect Tense, una ficha interactiva de FerValle
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Conversation topics

In this tic tac toe game, you choose a number and talk about it for 40 seconds to get your noughts or crosses.

 

Reports reports

Try this game to practise reported speech at an intermediate level.

Past participles Game. 💎💎

Jewels of Wisdom, combines flashcard knowledge with a fast paced jewel matching game. Learn and practise past participles with this matching game. Good luck!

Modals Worksheet

Modals are quite common in the English language. We use modals to show if we believe something is possible, impossible, necessary or not necessary. You can practise your modals with this liveworksheet.

Modals Necessity (present, past, future), una ficha interactiva de FerValle
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Weather and clothes

You can practise weather and clothes vocabulary with this liveworksheet.

Weather and clothes practice, una ficha interactiva de FerValle
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Let's practise spelling: The English Alphabet - Baamboozle

This is a great activity to practise spelling with your students. Hope you enjoy playing it! The English Alphabet - Baamboozle

Collocations

Here's a fun activity to practise collocations with make, go and keep

Talking points Board game

Have fun playing this board game and polish your speaking skills! Click on the link to access the game.

Talking points Board game https://t.co/dzyseaFsKw
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First questions with young KIDS

Play this game, designed for kids, to be played in pairs or groups.

Have fun with Vocabulary

Check your vocabulary having great fun with his Kahoot challenge! https://create.kahoot.it/share/elementary-vocabulary-and-questions/35ff149b-1704-4942-a0fb-8b45dfa968f2

Practice for elementary students https://t.co/NgL7W4SYwW

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Interactive Story

Hypermedia represents various multimedia elements which are linked with each other non-linearly. It's a new approach to didactic materials.

Hope you enjoy this interactive story based on the short story: "Claribel and the magic bonbons".

Argentina quiz on Kahoot

How much do you know about Argentina? Play this Kahoot to check ✔️!!

How much do you know about Argentina? https://t.co/pdNmWZGYvY

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Modals

Practise modal verbs in English with this gamified quiz on quizziz,  https://quizizz.com

https://quizizz.com/join?gc=821636

Weather ☁️

With Mobbyt, https://mobbyt.com/, you can create your own games or play already created games.Try this weather trivia for kids:

Music in the classroom 🎶🎵

Music...who doesn't like music? Music can be used in multiple different ways in the classroom: To create discussion of attitudes and feelings, to encourage creativity and use of imagination, to provide a relaxed classroom atmosphere, to bring variety and fun to learning. We can play some piece of music and ask our students what sort of emotions they evoke. You can ask students to imagine a person who likes/doesn't like this music and describe them.

Poetry for kids

Can you read this poem?
Carol Ann Duffy, Britain’s Poet Laureate, compared poetry to text messaging. According to Duffy, “The poem is a form of texting…it’s the original text…"
Do you agree? Are you good at texting, too?

im rlly gd @ txting

by Kenn Nesbitt

im rlly gd @ txting.

i do it all day lng.

im spedy on the keybrd

n my thms r supr strng.



i txt wth all my fmly.

i txt wth all my frnz.

n i rply 2 evry txt

tht nebdy senz.



id rthr keep on txting

thn go outsd n play.

i thnk i prbly snd abot

a thsnd txts a day.



im gld 2 no tht u cn

undrstnd me rlly wel.

4 if u cldnt rd my txts

id haf to lrn to spel.

Copyright © 2013 Kenn Nesbitt

All Rights Reserved

From www.poetry4kids.com

Some ideas to use this poem in class:
The teacher can divide the class in groups. Each group works with a verse and write the "original text" focusing on correctly spelt words.
They could create a new verse for the poem or add an extra verse. They might even create their own poems!

Alphabet Wheel 🎡

This wheel has been designed to be used after reading the story "The woman who disappeared" by Philip Prowse.

https://es.educaplay.com/recursos-educativos/6340759-the_woman_who_disappeared.html

Passive Voice

Educaplay provides lots of possibilities to create your own educational games or search for million educational activities.
Try this test on passive voice.