Skills Activities 

Skills activities

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• A business trip — Skills: reading, speaking; Level: A1
• A Firework Festival — Skills: speaking, reading, lexis; Level: B1 / B2
• A history of May Day — Skills: listening, vocabulary, speaking; Level: B1 / B2
• A space adventure - guided visualisation — Skills: listening, writing; Level: A2 and B1
• A Story Dictogloss — Skills: writing, listening, lexis, grammar, reading; Level: A2 and above
• A Trashion Show — Skills: speaking, listening, lexis; Level: All
• Adventure Awaits — Skills: creative writing, reading, speaking; Level: B1+ / B2
• Americans on the Brits — Skills: listening, lexis, speaking; Level: B1
• An anecdote - live listening — Skills: listening, speaking; Level: A2 and above
• Ask Phillipa — Skills: lexis, writing; Level: B2 and above
• Black History Webquest — Skills: reading, listening, speaking, writing; Level: B1 / B2
• Blobs and lines — Skills: Speaking; Level: All
• Book Review Mingle — Skills: reading, lexis, speaking; Level: A2 & above
• Childhood Stories — Skills: listening, pron, lexis, speaking; Level: B2
• Chore wars
• Comparing emails — Skills: writing, lexis, grammar; Level: A1 / A2
• Coursebook Challenge — Skills: speaking; Level: A2 to B2
• Critical Thinking - The Paralympics — Skills: Listening, speaking; Level: B2 and above
• Decoding a short social interaction — Skills: listening, lexis, pronunciation, speaking; Level: A1 & A2
• Dictogloss — Skills: listening, lexis, grammar, writing, speaking; Level: All
• Dish - food discussions — Skills: Listening, lexis, speaking; Level: C1 & C2
• Dragon's Den — Skills: Speaking, listening; Level: B2 and above
• Dyslexia makes me the way I am — Skills: listening, lexis, speaking, pronunciation; Level: B2 to C2
• EAP - Understanding Assignments — Skills: Writing, lexis; Level: C1 and C2
• Error Correction Race — Skills: writing, grammar, lexis; Level: All
• Estate Agents — Skills: writing, lexis; Level: B1 & above
• Fantasy dinner party — Skills: speaking, lexis, writing; Level: All levels
• Festival stall holders — Skills: speaking, writing; Level: B1 and B2
• Festive Greetings - writing cards — Skills: Speaking, lexis, writing; Level: A2 & B1
• Find someone who...online — Skills: writing, reading, speaking; Level: All
• Flash Fiction - reading — Skills: reading, lexis, critical thinking, speaking; Level: B2 and above (adaptable)
• Flash Fiction - writing — Skills: writing, lexis; Level: B2 and above (adaptable)
• Friendship — Skills: listening, speaking; Level: B1+
• Get better at listening — Skills: listening, decoding; Level: All
• Give me a sentence — Skills: lexis, writing, grammar; Level: All
• Handling a difficult conversation — Skills: listening, lexis, speaking; Level: B1 & above
• How to land a dream island job — Skills: speaking, reading, writing, lexis, grammar; Level: B2 and above
• I Can See Clearly Now — Skills: listening, lexis, grammar, writing; Level: A2
• Ideas translation — Skills: writing; Level: B1 & B2
• IELTS Essay Text Analysis — Skills: writing, lexis, grammar; Level: B1+ and above
• IELTS Reading - Exploring the text — Skills: reading, lexis; Level: B1 and above
• IELTS writing T2 - understanding the task — Skills: Writing, speaking, lexis; Level: B1 and above
• IELTS writing T2 - speed planning — Skills: writing; Level: B1 and above
• Interview with Frank — Skills: listening, speaking (conversation); Level: B1+ to B2
• Inventions investors — Skills: writing, speaking; Level: B1 & above
• Jigsaw Reading - The Generations — Skills: reading, speaking; Level: B2
• Jigsaw song - Our House by Madness — Skills: listening; Level: B1+ and above
• Jumbled Words — Skills: Listening, lexis; Level: Younger Learners / adaptable
• Learning at Work Week — Skills: reading, speaking; Level: B2 & above
• Let's wrap up — Skills: speaking, writing; Level: All
• Lexical Chain Film Review — Skills: Reading, lexis, writing; Level: B2 and above
• Listening for prominence — Skills: Listening, pronunciation, speaking; Level: B2 & above
• Make a Storyboard — Skills: Reading, speaking, lexis; Level: A2 / B1
• Misadventures — Skills: listening, speaking, lexis; Level: A2 to B2 (mixed level classes)
• Movie scenes — Skills: reading, speaking, pronunciation; Level: C1 & C2
• My worst haircut - pause and predict — Skills: listening, lexis, speaking; Level: B1
• Needs analysis for Business English — Skills: reading, writing, grammar, speaking; Level: A2 & above
• New Experiences — Skills: writing, reading, lexis; Level: A2
• New year, new you — Skills: reading, lexis, speaking; Level: B1 and above
• Olympics Running Dictation — Skills: reading, speaking, listening, writing; Level: B1 (adaptable)
• Online Dictation Race — Skills: reading, speaking, listening, writing; Level: B1 (adaptable)
• Our time capsule — Skills: speaking, writing; Level: All
• Pass it along - writing feedback — Skills: Writing, grammar, lexis; Level: A2 and above
• Personalisation of a text — Skills: Speaking, reading, lexis; Level: All levels
• Phrasal verbs - connected speech — Skills: listening, pron, lexis; Level: B1 / B1+
• Picture Prompts — Skills: lexis, speaking, writing; Level: B1 and above
• Picture Walk — Skills: reading, lexis, speaking; Level: A2
• Pin it down — Skills: writing, lexis, grammar, speaking; Level: B2 & above
• Plan an event for Pride — Skills: speaking, reading, listening; Level: B1 & above
• Playing with Onomatopoeia — Skills: creative writing; Level: B2 and above
• Poetic Apologies — Skills: reading, listening, lexis, writing; Level: A2 & B1
• Postcards from anywhere — Skills: writing, lexis, grammar; Level: All
• Quicker Reading - sense words — Skills: reading, lexis, grammar; Level: B1+ and B2
• Random acts of kindness — Skills: reading, speaking; Level: A1 / A2 (adaptable for all levels)
• Reading - a class book project — Skills: Reading, lexis, writing, speaking; Level: B1+
• Reflection and goal setting — Skills: speaking; Level: B1 and above
• See Think Wonder — Skills: speaking, lexis; Level: All
• Sentence copy and change — Skills: Writing, lexis, grammar; Level: A1 & A2
• Something strange - AI prompts — Skills: listening, speaking, writing, lexis; Level: A2 & B1
• Space out: a do nothing competition — Skills: reading, lexis, speaking; Level: B2 and C1
• Spooky Shouting Dictation — Skills: reading, speaking, pronunciation, listening, writing; Level: B1+ and above
• Spot the Mistake — Skills: reading, writing, grammar, punctuation, lexis; Level: B1 / B2 / adaptable
• Spring is in the air — Skills: writing; Level: B2 & above (adpatable)
• Story Challenge — Skills: speaking, writing, grammar, lexis; Level: A1 & A2
• Summer Solstice — Skills: reading, lexis, speaking; Level: B1 & B2
• Sustainable fashion — Skills: speaking. reading, lexis, writing; Level: B1
• That's it! Concise essay writing — Skills: writing, reading, grammar, vocabulary; Level: B2 & above
• Thank you — Skills: listening, speaking, lexis; Level: B1 & above
• The Clever Bean Cafe — Skills: reading, lexis, speaking; Level: A1 & A2 (adaptable)
• Think Aloud — Skills: reading; Level: C1 and C2
• Travel guides — Skills: reading, lexis, writing; Level: A2
• Truth or near? — Skills: writing; Level: B1 & above
• Visualising the future — Skills: listening, speaking; Level: All
• What do you think of me? — Skills: Writing, lexis; Level: B1 & above
• What music means to me — Skills: listening, lexis, pronunciation, grammar; Level: A2 & above
• What was life like? — Skills: speaking, grammar, reading, listening; Level: B1 and above
• What's in the news? — Skills: reading, speaking; Level: B2 and above
• What's the bias? — Skills: Reading, lexis, writing, speaking; Level: B2 and above
• Wildlife in our cities — Skills: Listening, lexis; Level: B2 and above
• Women as witches - authentic reading — Skills: reading, lexis, speaking; Level: C1 and C2
• Worst Film Ever — Skills: lexis, speaking, reading, writing; Level: B2 & above
• Would you go to space? — Skills: listening, speaking; Level: B1+ and above
• Writing Jam — Skills: writing, grammar, lexis; Level: All