ELL Activities from Kenneth Beare

Family Relationships Role-Plays This family relationships lesson plan provides a number of situations on which students can create role-plays. Asking students to write-up, proof and act out role-plays provides a great opportunity for skills consolidation... Read more

Spicing up Reported Speech Which short passage is more interesting?Tom said he wanted to leave Martha while they were having lunch. Martha said she couldn't believe him. Tom then said he was very sorry, but he wasn't going to change his mind.ORTom blurted out he wanted to leave Martha while they were having lunch. Martha gasped she couldn't believe him. Tom then mumbled he was very sorry, but he wasn't going to change his mind. In this article on replacing he said she said learn which type of verbs express how people say something...Read more

Four Questions with 'Like' Like is often used in questions as a verb and a preposition. These questions can be rather confusing: What does he like? What is he like? What does he look like? What would he like? Learn the rules to questions with 'like' ... Read more

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