Quick Fillers

This two-page worksheet is great for getting students talking. What would your class members change about themselves? Who wishes they were taller, slimmer and losing less hair? Who wants to go to the Olympics?

There are controlled exercises, as well as a conversation activity, so that your students can practice the target to their hearts' content!

This worksheet gives students a basis for an extended conversation on gadgets. It's a great topic to talk about - your class is bound to be familiar with mobile phones, MP3 players, digital cameras and the like. This worksheet is written for intermediate-level students. However, it can easily be adapted for students of other levels.

It's impossible to escape the Internet nowadays. However, it affects everyone in different ways. This fluency-based worksheet gives your students the chance to talk about how they use the Internet. It starts with a short questionnaire, followed by questions about using the Internet for news, commerce, blogs and more. The questions are designed for intermediate-level students. It's a great way to get them talking at length!

This conversation is correct English, but highly impolite! You can help instill some manners in your students with this worksheet. Your students need to go through the conversation, changing the register from rude to polite. 'Polite Telephone English' can be used as a follow-up to a general English phone lesson. It also works well if set as homework.

Taking music as its theme, this worksheet looks at some expressions common in conversation. Language taught includes: I'm really into [rock music]. [Jazz] isn't my thing. I've gone off [pop music]. There's a conversation with practice exercises, followed by discussion questions.

This worksheet helps build vocabulary and discussion skills. Vocabulary covered includes: overcooked, underused, underpaid, overpriced, overconfident and more. After the fill-in-the-banks exercise, there are lots of discussion questions, giving your students the opportunity to personalise the language.

Find out if your students were paying attention when playing Snakes and Ladders! This worksheet reviews some of the most common errors that students make with gerunds and infinitives. There are fill-in-the-blank questions, followed by the opportunity for students to have conversations with a partner, using the language.

This general-knowledge quiz is a great way to help your students with the Passive Voice in a more relaxed setting than traditional grammar questions. This worksheet has been completely redesigned, with new questions and a multiple-choice style format. It's great for pre-intermediate level students.