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Short film to practice English / Halloween

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Laying the dead to rest has never been so much trouble.

This Oscar Nominated short is directed by Smith & Foulkes and written by Foulkes, Smith, and Christopher O’Reilly, and produced at Nexus by Charlotte Bavasso and Christopher O’Reilly, the film follows two dour unfortunates as they battle a series of misadventures while trying to deliver a coffin to the graveyard.

The animated caper is a series of emotional and literal pitfalls for the pall-bearing team, as their journey and relationship unravel on an epic scale culminating in the pair joining the old lady in a trip through the underworld.

‘This Way Up’, was nominated for an Oscar® for best animated short at the 81st annual Academy Awards.

Before its Oscar win, “This Way Up” won numerous awards at film festivals around the world, including an Official Selection at the Sundance Film Festival, the Public Prize for Best Short Film at the 2008 Ottawa Animation Festival, the Audience Award for Animated Short at both the Palm Springs International Film Festival, and the Mundos Digitales in Spain.

Full Credits Below:

	Directed by	Smith & Foulkes
	Written by	Smith & Foulkes and Christopher O’Reilly
	Produced by	Charlotte Bavasso and Christopher O’Reilly
	Co-producer	Christine Ponzevera

	Production Company	Nexus Productions Ltd

	3D Animatic and Layout	Nicolas Domerego (Supervisor)
		Ben Cowell
		Simon Landrein
		Stuart Doig
		Antoine Bourruel

	3D Modelling & Texturing	Darren Price (Supervisor)
		Michael Greenwood
		Vincent Fiere
		Ben Bigiel
		Alison Bond
		Nicolas Domerego	
		Simon Landrein
		Kuba Gryglicki
		Benjamin Devaux
		Guillaume Julien

	Character Set-up and Rigging	Luis San Juan Pallares (Supervisor)
		Miguel Garcia Lluch
		Michael Greenwood
		Rudi Hammad

	Background Digital Painting	Adam Willis (Supervisor)
		Florian Mounié
		Justin Atkinson

	Pipeline TD	Luis San Juan Pallares

	Storyboard artist	James Husbands 

	Technical Director	Mark Davies

	CG Animators	Reece Millidge
		Stuart Doig
		Steve Brown
		Antoine Bourruel
		Mélanie Climent
		James Wilson
		Mark Davies
		Roly Edwards
		Dominic Griffiths
		Boris Lowinger

	Lighting and Rendering	Nicolas Domerego
		Simon Landrein
		Maelys Faget
		Florian Mounié		
		Jerome Haupert
		Ludovik Boden
		Guillaume Cassuto
		Darren Rolmanis

	Visual Effects and Compositing 	Fletcher Moules (Supervisor)
		Sheldon Gardner
		Jerome Haupert
		Dylan White
		Navid Bagherzadeh 
		Clayton McDermott
		Kwok Fung Lam

	Cloth simulations	Lora Jensen

	Render assistant	Jens Blank

	Sound designer	Andre Jacquemin 
		at Redwood Studios

	Re-recording Mixer	Craig Irving 
		at Twickenham Film Studios

	Voice over artists	Marc Silk (Son, Granny, Red demon)
		Chris Grant (Dad)

	Original music by	John Greswell and Christopher Taylor 
		for MPM London

	Arrangement by 	Andy Mellon

	Music Consultant	Jonny Trunk

	Existing music	Song ‘Happy Weekend’
	Sung by 	Ray Merrell
	Composed and written by 	Jack Fishman and Roy Budd
	Published by	JHP & Mood Media

	Head of Productions	Julia Parfitt

	Studio Manager	Theano Kazagli

	Production Manager	Jo Bierton

	Head of 3D	Ben Cowell

	Nexus Productions support	Denise Abraham 	
		Matt Archibold
		Tim Dillon
		Ben Hunt
		Ian Mansel-Thomas
		Thana Shanmugam
		Matt Shepherd
		Alice Wigley

	Special thanks to	Mike Judge, Don Hertzfeldt,  Rebecca Moline,
		Nicolas Schmerkin

	A Nexus Productions

	Made with the support of BBC Films, BBC Comedy & BBC Film Network

	for BBC Film Network 
	Executive Producers 	Claire Cook and Gerard O’Malley

	Creative Head, BBC Comedy	Kenton Allen

	for BBC Films
	Executive Producer	Beth Richards
	Production Executive	Matthew Vizard


	with the support of The Animation Show

	Co-production : Arcadi
(Action régionale pour la création artistique et la diffusion en Ile de France)

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Ss create a storyboard for a film trailer. They have to decide what type of film they are going to create, choose the target audience, decide how they are going to present it etc. Afterwards. give them all personalised feedback and some advice about things to improve. And if they like it.. Why not shoot the trailer and add a Hollywood-style voice over?

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Ask your students to take photos with their smartphones at the weekend showing their activities and then they post them e.g. to padlet and during the next lesson they can work in pairs and partners can tell everyone about each other's activities.
Similar task can be done to talk about everyday routines. Photos might include making breakfast, doing make-up, going to work/school, etc.

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Ss read a funny or unexpected short story, leaving out its ending. Then, ask them to predict how it might end, writing down a possible ending in pairs or small groups. It's much more interesting if the story is by a famous writer, like for example Tales of the Unexpected by Roald Dahl. Finally, read them out the actual ending, so that they can compare it with theirs. If the story is by a famous author, you might also want your students to write down his biography, giving them different prompts and having them work in pairs: student A may formulate the questions, student B may give appropriate answers, possibly using the simple past tense.

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Keira Knightley Plays the 'Would You Rather' Game | Glamour UK

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Keira Knightley plays 'Would You Rather?' for November GLAMOUR cover. Want even more? Subscribe to Glamour UK HERE: http://bit.ly/W6aASQ CONNECT WITH GLAMOUR MAGAZINE UK: For celebrities, makeup and fashion visit: http://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/glamourmaguk Follow Glamour on Twitter: https://twitter.com/glamourmaguk Follow Glamour on Instagram: http://instagram.com/glamourmuk ABOUT GLAMOUR Glamour is for the woman who sets the direction of her own life and lives it to its fullest and chicest.

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Ss write a short description of an imaginary problem for a magazine 'agony aunt' page. Then they pass the problem on and each student writes a piece of advice before passing to the next. Finally, they get their problem back, read the advice, and then present to the class saying what they thought the best advice was and why.

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Start an invented story with a student writing a first sentence, then any subsequent student must continue the story using as first letter of his sentence the last letter of the last word in the previous one. The students must be able to keep a context and a plot that make sense and in which sentences are coherently linked one to another.

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Ss are divided in groups. Each group starts writing a story. After 5-10 minutes, they fold the paper and swap it. Only the last sentence is visible. From there, they have to continue with their own story... And then swap it again and again.

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This lesson plan for teachers of older teenage and adult students level B1 is about Music. Students will develop their fluency through a range of speaking activities.
During this skills lesson you might want to use background music where facilities allow. You will also need some samples of music, not necessarily just in English, but a variety of different genres

Topic

To develop fluency through a range of speaking activities

To introduce related vocabulary
Materials
Lesson plan: guide for teacher on procedure.

Download lesson plan 170k pdf

Worksheets: worksheets which can be printed out for use in class. They include:

Download worksheets 157k pdf

The plans and worksheets are downloadable and in pdf format. If you have difficulty downloading the materials see the download section of the Help page.

Copyright - please read
All the materials on these pages are free for you to download and copy for educational use only. You may not redistribute, sell or place these materials on any other web site without written permission from the BBC and British Council. If you have any questions about the use of these materials please email us at: teachingenglish@britishcouncil.org

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Introduction This lesson plan for teachers of older teenage and adult students level B1 is about Music. Students will develop their fluency through a range of speaking activities. During this skills lesson you might want to use background music where facilities allow.

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A 'find someone who' activity is a speaking activity which involves learners trying to find someone in the group who matches a description.

The group are practising using the present perfect for experiences. Amongst the group there are learners who have to:
find someone who has been abroad
find someone who has eaten something really strange
find someone who has done a bungee jump

In the classroom
This is a very versatile activity, which can be adapted to almost any language aim. For example, learners can practise multi-word verbs ('Find someone who has fallen out with their partner') or character vocabulary ('Find someone who is a lone wolf').

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A 'find someone who' activity is a speaking activity which involves learners trying to find someone in the group who matches a description. The group are practising using the present perfect for experiences.

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Story Starters: Creative Writing Prompts for Kids | Scholastic.com

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Scholastic’s Story Starters kids’ writing activity generates creative writing prompts, from general fiction to adventure, fantasy, and science fiction.

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Story by 12-year-old gold winner

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Oh no, oh no. 500 words just isn't enough to prove my innocence, and I'm already down to 482. Well, my name is Jacob Carter as you already know. I'm a young man. I'm innocent.

@GuiltyThemAll

Cut the lies. We've all read the evidence already. This man will repeat his actions if he scores an overall innocent. We see through you.

#guilty

Please don't use up my words. Now I only have 428 left. I need my words. I have a family. I have a wife. A son. I love him. Little Callum. He needs a daddy, he's only seven.

@Tracy_Spike

I've got a daughter too. I love her. That's why I want her to be safe from people like YOU.

#guilty

Please, please- if your choice is guilty make that all you say. My words are precious. Don't use up my words and waste my jury time. This system is ridiculous. I know they changed it to save money, but surely a case like this deserves a jury in a room? I just wish I could afford to pay for the proper trial, to prove it wasn't me.

@Gregory Adams

If your aim is to vex us, you fail. Your arguments are inadequate. I apologize highly for my verdict being

#guilty

Greg, listen to me- I can tell from your words that you're an educated man, so listen to the truth. I never mentioned this before. I was protecting him- my brother; Dominic. I love my brother, but when he's drunk he gets violent and angry. When he asked me to talk to the police, I said yes because I was scared. But it WAS my brother who committed the crime, not me. That favour was the most stupid thing I ever did, and I see that now.

Do you understand what happens to me if there are more guilties than innocents? I will die! The doctors are in the room next door, ready to inject the poison into my skin. Please just save my life. I want to see my family again.

@RyanRox

I believe you are being dishonest, but the crimes you committed don't justify taking someone's life.

#innocent.

Thank you, but I DIDN'T commit the crime. It was my brother, Dominic Carter. It was him. Please believe me.

@Braveheart_

Jacob, I came here today ready for a guilty, but I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt.

#innocent

Anyone else? Anyone else to vote innocent? And please save my words.

@James Turner

I'm on the same page as @braveheart

#innocent

YES!! It's a draw so it's a hung jury, right? So I can have an e-retrial. Then I can bring in the evidence against Dominic. Oh YES! Thank you @Braveheart, @RyanRox, @JamesTurner. You guys have literally saved my life. 466 words. Nearly there. Is anyone else, online? Okay quickly I'll use up my words so no one else can get in blah blah blah 490 blah blah blah 494 blah blah

@Dominic_Carter

#guilty, Brother.

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500 Words - e-COURTROOM.com - GOLD WINNER - BBC Radio 2

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Oh no, oh no. 500 words just isn't enough to prove my innocence, and I'm already down to 482. Well, my name is Jacob Carter as you already know. I'm a young man. I'm innocent. @GuiltyThemAll Cut the lies. We've all read the evidence already.

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Pin some statements on the board such as: "Parents should read their child's diary", "Children should dress in the latest fashion", "Parents need to respect their children's choice of friends". Each student has sad and smiley stickers and goes around sticking them under the sentences. Then we discuss.

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Spot the vocabulary Collocation pelmanism

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The Balloon Game is a quiz that encourages students to use their English to stop the balloons from floating away!

This game is a classroom adaptation of a popular Japanese TV quiz segment.

Around four celebrities or comedians stand within a basket with a screen of balloons in front of them. The host or MC asks a question and the contestants have to guess a percentage.

For example:

What percentage of people have travelled to more than 20 countries?

The contestants discuss together and one person guesses the percentage. The difference between the guess and the answer determines how many balloons are lost. So, if the guess is a lot more or a lot less than the answer, a lot of balloons are lost. If the guess is close to the answer, only a few balloons are lost.

The idea is to keep the basking floating the air!

I took the idea of this game and I adapted it to a PowerPoint version that can be played in the classroom.

The number of balloons was reduced to 10.

Each slide contains 10 question boxes.

There are five yellow question boxes. An incorrect answer loses 1 balloon.

There are five green question boxes. An incorrect answer loses 2 balloons.

The basket drops when the final balloon is clicked. (The yellow balloon with the black arrow)

The buttons on the left-hand side of the slide can be used to select the questions.

Click on the image or follow the link below to download the Balloon Game.
Note: Before playing the balloon game in class, please decide whether it is an appropriate game for your students age, level or cultural background.
Please watch the video demo to see how to edit and use the template.

The video run-time is 1 minute and 51 seconds

Download and open the Balloon Game template.

Scroll down to the bottom of the slide.

Add your own questions.

Go to the slideshow ribbon.

Start the presentation.

Click on a number of the left-hand side of the slide to choose a question.

If the students answer correctly, all the balloons remain.

If the students answer incorrectly, they lose 1 balloon for a yellow question or 2 balloons for a green question.

Click on the balloons and they will float away.

Click on the last balloon (the yellow balloon with the black arrow) and the basket will fall out of the sky.

Note: If you want more than 10 questions, copy the slide a write another set of 10 questions. Questions will always have to be in groups of 10. For a group of less than 10 questions, delete the remaining question boxes and the associated buttons.
Information Questions

If you use information questions for the template that require an open answer from the students, you will need to make sure you have the answers written down either on a piece of paper or within the notes area of the PowerPoint slide.

Survey Questions

If you use survey questions for the template that require the students to guess a number or percentage, you will need to conduct a survey in class before playing this game. The advantage is that is more personalized to your students, but the disadvantage is that you need to spread it across two lessons. You will still need to make sure you have the answers written down either on a piece of paper or within the notes area of the PowerPoint slide.

Established Fact-based questions

As an alternative to survey questions, you can play the game using pre-existing survey information and/or facts that are available on the internet. One of my favorite resources is the Guinness World Records website. The students can still make guesses with facts and figures and the game can be set up and played within one lesson. If the facts are interesting enough, they will engage the students and keep them motivated.

When creating this kind of game, choose the questions carefully and make sure they are appropriate for the classroom.

If you use information questions or established fact-based questions, the game can be created by the teacher and played within one lesson.

If you use survey questions, the game will have to be set up in the first lesson and played in the second lesson.

The First Lesson (Survey Questions only)

During the first lesson you will need to conduct a class survey. The class survey can be based on questions created by the teacher or questions created by the student.

A few things to consider:

The questions will eventually be typed into the template for the second class.

The number of questions has to equal the number of question you will use in the template.

You will need to provide the students with a handout with the pre-written questions or space to write their own questions.

Students may work in groups to write down their 10 questions.

This example encourages the students to practice frequency adverbs.

All the surveys need to be collected by the end of the class so that they can be used to create the game.

You will have as many questions as you did groups multiplied by 10. So, for example, if you had two groups, then you will have 20 questions. This allows you to be selective of the questions you will use in the final version

The Second Lesson (All Question Types)

Before the second lesson, the PowerPoint template needs to be edited and the questions added. Make sure you have the answers written down or typed into the notes section of the PowerPoint slide.

Allow yourself time to prepare the PowerPoint.

Divide the class into groups of 4-6 students.
Although this is played as a team game to keep all the students engaged, it is important to understand the students are working together as a class. If one team wins, the whole class wins.

Select one group at random to choose the first question.

The question is open and any team can choose to answer it.

If the answer is correct, no balloons are lost.

If the answer is incorrect, click on one or two balloons and they will float away.

The team who answers correctly may choose the next question.

The students may win a reward of the teacher's choosing if there are balloons remaining at the end of the game,

Do you have any suggestions for playing the Balloon Game?

Please leave a comment if you have any ideas you would like to share or if you have any questions about the template.

Alternatively you can send me a message on my Facebook page or on Twitter.

Thanks for reading and take care!
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Spaceman is an alternative to hangman. It uses easy to draw shapes, it follows the same rules and it is easily identifiable by its name.

Can your students guess the mystery word before the spaceship flies away?
The Balloon Game was designed with Microsoft PowerPoint 2016. Animations and sounds may differ when opened in other presentation software. Microsoft® Office® is a copyrighted product of the Microsoft® corporation. All media that accompanies the Balloon Game is for educational purposes only.

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The Balloon Game is a quiz that encourages students to use their English to stop the balloons from floating away! This game is a classroom adaptation of a popular Japanese TV quiz segment. Around four celebrities or comedians stand within a basket with a screen of balloons in front of them.

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The "psychologist" writes down a word and each player has to write the first thing that comes to their mind. E.g. APPLE -> Adam. They have 10 secs. Then they submit the cards face down. The psychologist has to choose their favorite. "Patients" can try and convince the psychologist to choose their word (or bluff!). Who wins becomes the new psychologist.

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1. Could you spot the [Italian] breakfast in the video?

2. What food was there?

3. Is that what you have for breakfast?

4. What do you usually have for breakfast?

5. They say “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day”. Do you agree?

6. What is a “healthy breakfast”?

7. Do you eat healthy food? Why?

8. What is “comfort food”?

9. What food is your “comfort food”? When do you have it?

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Bring something to eat, a perfume and a few objects to class. Write on the board:
1. What does it LOOK like?
2. What does it TASTE like?
3. What does it SMELL like?
4. What does it FEEL like?
Start with a blindfolded volunteer. The other students have a list of adjectives and start asking questions: is it salty? is it smooth? is it smelly? The volunteer has to answer. Write the correct adjectives under each category (1-4). A second student then will be asked to describe what the object looks like to the blindfolded student who has to finally guess what it is.

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Start a lesson comparing two TV ads that used poems as voice over. Discuss.

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by Brett Vogelsinger
Today's post offers two poems for the price of one. Both are in video format, for the poems have been adopted by companies in hopes of making their brand appeal to the hearts and minds of customers.
First, we have Charles Bukowski poem "The Laughing Heart" found in a Levi's commercial.

Second, we have Maya Angelou's "The Human Family" found in an iPhone commercial.

Using one or both of these poems, discuss these questions as a class: Brett Vogelsinger teaches freshman English students at Holicong Middle School in Doylestown, PA where he starts class with a poem each day. Follow his work on Twitter
What does the company seek to communicate about their brand using this poem? What associations do they want you, the audience, to make with Levis or Apple? What connotations are they developing for their brand?
What are your thoughts on using poetry for the purpose of advertising? Does it devalue the poem that someone besides the author is using it to make money? Or does it bring poetry, framed professionally with images and music, to a vast audience, making poetry more approachable?
It may be worth noting that both of these commercials were produced after the death of the poets who wrote the poems, so someone other than the original poet had to give permission to use the poem in this manner. If you were responsible for the copyright of a famous poet's work, what questions would you ask before granting permission to use the poet's work in a television commercial?

@theVogelman.

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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by Brett Vogelsinger Today's post offers two poems for the price of one. Both are in video format, for the poems have been adopted by companies in hopes of making their brand appeal to the hearts and minds of customers. First, we have Charles Bukowski poem "The Laughing Heart" found in a Levi's commercial.

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Each students writes a motivation journal in class. The teacher then collects the journals and write a reply. S/he will not correct mistakes nor read it out loud, but focus on communicating and empathizing with the students. Students will keep their journal at the end of the course.

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Cool tool to pick a student!

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A student picks a card with the name of a VIP and has to briefly describe "who s/he is" in 3 sentences. The others then have to ask questions to guess, BUT the student with the card can only answer YES or NO.

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Blog full of activities to teach grammar through movies.

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Have the students listen to audio clips from films and ask them to draw and write the descriptive words that go with the scene that they imagine. Then they watch the actual film clip and discuss the differences between what they imagined and the movie.

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Use a stuffed animal to encourage participation in a class discussion. The game consists of throwing the prop and who gets it has to either comment or pass.!

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Paintings by Picasso can be used to teach shapes, paper cuttings by Matisse to teach colour - students can produce own paper cuts and display them - any number of figurative paintings or sculptures to teach body parts.

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Ask students to write an haiku (3 lines, 5-7-5 syllables). Brainstorm some vocabulary they may need beforehand (e.g. words to describe nature and feelings)

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Tell your students you are a doctor and they have 3 days to live. Ask them to write down their bucket list and explain meaning ("kicking the bucket"). Discuss.

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The Bucket List (2007) Official Trailer - Morgan Freeman, Jack Nicholson Movie HD

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Telephone

Fortunately / Unfortunately

How was your weekend?

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On the first day, ask students to write their names on cards. Then collect them and place them on a different table every day.

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Ask students to write their course goals on a piece of paper and put it in an envelope with their name on it.  Whenever they don't feel motivated, ask them if they've reached their goal yet... At the end of the course, give back the envelopes and ask them to reflect on their journey.

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Conversation game & ice-breaker. Start by writing 2 truths and 1 lie about yourself, then ask students to ask you questions to guess what the lie is. When they do, ask them to write down their truths and lies and do the same either in pairs or as a class.

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Fill a bag with all the new words written on separate cards. When it's full enough, use the cards for activities such as story telling or board games such as Bankrupt.

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Shout it whenever there is too much noise in the classroom... Students can't talk with a bubble in their mouth!