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Clothes, Accessories and Fashion Vocabulary and Speaking Exercises

•  Fashion, accessories and clothes vocabulary and associated expressions and language can be taught with a variety of techniques including vocabulary-picture matching, class surveys and word maps.
• These exercises engage the students and encourage them to interact.

1. Clothes, accessories and fashion choices survey and speaking lesson

This is an ESL  speaking and writing lesson  for talking about clothes, accessories and fashion choices. First, students write five survey questions about fashion choices. There are some examples of  questions on the first page of the PDF.  When they have written five questions on Page 2 of the PDF,  they can walk around the class asking  classmates their questions and noting down their answers on the worksheet. Finally, they write a short report from their survey  question answers. This is a fun communicative exercise that allows students to mix freely. 

Fashion Choices Survey (PDF)

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2 Fashion and shopping word maps

This wordmaps exercise is a great way to explore the language of fashion, shopping and taste. It can be done collectively or individually. Once enough vocabulary has been generated on the board or on worksheets, students can write their ideas and opinions about fashion and shopping using the sentence cues at the bottom of the page.

Fashion and shopping wordmaps (PDF)

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First, Second and Third Conditional Listening/Speaking and Grammar Exercises and Worksheets

Summary of the conditionals

1. The first conditional is used to talk about possible future events.

2. The second conditional is used to talk about unlikely (imaginary or unreal situations) future events.

3. The third conditional is used to talk about past events that didn’t happen (regrets!).

1 First conditional for possibility listening/speaking (with answers and audio)

  This is a first conditional complete-the-sentence exercise  for English language learners. . Students complete the sentences using their own  ideas generated by the pictures and/or listen to the audio.

First  conditional grammar exercise (PDF)

(video mp4)    (video YouTube mp4)

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2 An introduction to the unreal conditional (2nd)

Here is a short introduction or guide to the unreal conditional.

(download PDF)

(see the video on YouTube)

An introduction to the unreal conditional

3 Imaginary (2nd conditional for unreal situations with answers and audio)

  This is a 2nd conditional complete-the-sentence exercise  for English language learners. It is used for imaginary situations. 

Imaginary: 2nd conditional grammar exercise (PDF)

(video mp4) (video YouTube mp4)

4 Introduction to the past unreal/past possibility/3rd conditional

Here is a short introduction or guide to the past unreal conditional. It is often used when talking about regrets or possibilities in the past. Ok, there are many ways to describe this aspect of grammar. Down below, I even use “alternate reality”,

(download PDF)

5 Alternate reality (3rd conditional with answers and audio)

  This is a 3rd conditional listening/speaking complete-the-sentence exercise  for English language learners. It is used for thinking about changes in  the past.  

Imaginary: 2nd conditional grammar exercise (PDF)

(video mp4)    (video YouTube mp4)

6 2nd conditional grammar and critical thinking exercise (with answers)

  This is an exercise to challenge students’ grammar and critical thinking skills.

2nd conditional grammar/critical thinking exercise (PDF)

7 3rd conditional grammar and critical thinking exercise

  This is an exercise to challenge students’ grammar and critical thinking skills for the 3rd conditional.

2nd conditional grammar/critical thinking exercise (PDF)

8 Amazing situations in the 2nd conditional

    This is a conditionals  question-making exercise and speaking activity  for English language learners. It is used for imaginary situations. Students complete the questions using their own  ideas generated by the pictures. Then they can interview their partners. 

Amazing situations 2nd conditional questions (PDF)

Related Resources:

“Wishes” speaking and writing activities

Comparative adjectives listening/speaking

  Adjectives Exercises Including Adjectives for People and Things 

3 Parts of Speech Exercises

Picture-Based Present Continuous Worksheets (PDF)

Preposition Exercises for Location, Time and Movement (PDF)

  Useful Passive Tense Practice worksheets

  Present Perfect Language and Speaking Worksheets

Incredibly Useful Past Tense Simple Teaching Activities (PDF)

Reported speech and indirect requests

 

9 Making sentences with the 2nd conditional

  This is another  2nd conditional complete-the-sentence writing exercise  for English language learners.

2nd conditional complete the sentence exercise (PDF)

Movies brainstorms and speaking activities

1 Movies brainstorm and speaking activity

    This is a movies language exercise  for English language learners to practice the present simple tense.  Students  try to identify movie genres and brainstorm the names of movies for each genre. Then they write questions about movies and ask a classmate.

Movie brainstorm and speaking activity (PDF)

2 Write a conversation exercise: going out to a movie

“Going Out” is another good conversation topic. When students write these dialogues in pairs or small groups they automatically fall into a role play mode without any direction from the teacher.

Going out (PDF)

(YouTube gap fill version)

3 Elements of movies vocabulary

In this exercise, students learn language used to discuss movies. Students match the vocabulary to the pictures and then ask their classmates the questions at the bottom of the page.

 Elements of movies vocabulary(PDF)

4 Elements of movies qualities

This exercise explores the language of movies more deeply. Students may have to think a bit more to match the words and expressions to the pictures.

Elements of movies qualities (PDF)

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Revolution in the Listening/Speaking Classroom

Listening teacher’s paradise: Ipad Pro and JBL Charge chargeable speaker

• New mobile, lightweight technologies using bluetooth and rechargeable batteries are  totally changing the lives of ESL teachers.
• In particular a combination of the Ipad Pro and the JBL Charge speaker are  pretty much the stuff of dreams (of the 20th century teacher!!) come to  life.

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ESL Listening Activities Guide

When I started teaching listening/speaking  I had to teach with cassettes. Anyone who used to do this knows what a time-consuming, annoying hassle it was rewinding and  forwarding tapes. There was no way you could pay attention to individual students and easily manage listening materials at the same time. That’s to say nothing of  the irritation when tapes got old or broke. And if you worked in  a sound lab you had to master dashboards with a thousand functions.

Wow…. sound labs seem so dated now! Do people still use them?

New technology has revolutionized the life of a listening/speaking teacher. It’s so refreshing to walk into a classroom and do nearly everything more efficiently than ever before. I use an Ipad Pro with a bluetooth connection to a JBL Charge chargeable speaker.

This set up is so light and mobile and  has many benefits. As a remote to manage the listenings, the Ipad Pro is better than using an Iphone or any other mobile phone as its screen is bigger and the touchscreen is more sensitive. With this set up I am in total control of my equipment and never have to worry about what  audio equipment is available in the classroom. I never have to worry about finding technicians when equipment breaks down.

When I’m teaching I can move around the classroom and monitor students at the same time as I am controlling the listening. If I realize the students are missing  something I can stop on the spot and explain or clarify or replay instantly. Moreover, I find that  I am able to think of  new techniques and put them into action instantaneously.

Listening resources

 16 Elementary Conversation Exercises for Speaking and Listening Classes (including worksheets, gap fills, audio and video)

Comparative adjective worksheets

Past (simple) tense listening exercises

“used to” and past continuous listening/speaking and video exercises

11 role play listening/speaking Activities

7 essential listening exercises for English as a second language classes

Listening/speaking exercises for the latest technological advances

6 present perfect grammar, speaking and listening Exercises

Listening/speaking exercises for conditionals