Another ‘making things up as I go along’. This time in my IELTS Teens class.
Topic: Environment and the natural world
Context: We’d just done some vocabulary review / building activities. We’d also dipped into the book for some listening practice – a few activities on ‘identifying attitudes/opinions’. So, we had tonnes of new vocab, plus loads of phrases in a table like this…
Cue Teacher Pete’s random fluency practice, with the aim(s) of developing students’ ability to…
- think on their feet
- see things from different perspectives (whether they agree or not!)
- justify opinions
- wake up a bit after coursebook activities
