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Many teachers dread running out of materials in a lesson. If you're looking for something to fill a twenty-minute space in your class, try some of these!

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  Target: General Grammar Correction  
  Title: Error Correction Snakes and Ladders  
  Level / Time: Elementary and Pre-Intermediate / 20 minutes  
  Description:

Snakes and Ladders is a great way to improve your students' accuracy!

There are lots of questions dealing with the most common mistakes made by lower-level students. Topics covered include basic tenses, prepositions, comparative / superlative adjectives and more.

 
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  Target: Basic language needed to discuss movies  
  Title: Talking about Movies  
  Level / Time: Elementary and Pre-Intermediate / 30 minutes  
  Description:

Movies make a great topic for lessons (especially as a warm-up), but many lower-level students have difficulty saying anything intelligible on the subject!

Make life easier for everyone with this splendid worksheet. There are lots of great phrases your students can use, as well as an information-gap exercise and speaking practice.

 
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  Target: Phrasal Verbs      
  Title: Phrasal Verbs - Relationships  
  Level / Time: Upper Intermediate / 30 minutes  
  Description:

Phrasal Verbs make great lesson fillers! Five useful phrasals with lots of different practice exercises. Get your students speaking more natural English with this easy-to-teach worksheet.

 
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  Target: Phrasal Verbs    (Business English)  
  Title: Business English Phrasal Verbs #1  
  Level / Time: Upper Intermediate / 30 minutes  
  Description:

A one-page handout with some great business vocabulary. There's a conversation to act out, plus some exercises to build students' knowledge of phrasal verbs.

 
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  Target: Giving Directions (Intermediate Version)  
  Title: Directions  
  Level / Time: Intermediate / 30 minutes  
  Description:

Teaching directions is a great way to fill a spare 20 minutes - many people find it tricky enough in their own language, let alone a foreign one. This worksheet has lots of different activities which are bound to keep your class occupied.

 
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  Target: Giving Directions (Elementary Version)    
  Title: Directions  
  Level / Time: Elementary / 20 minutes  
  Description:

We've got an elementary version as well! Great for your lower-level students. A welcome break from teaching tenses, comparatives and so on...

 
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  Target: 'Advice' Function (Should, If I were you etc.)  
  Title: Quick Advice  
  Level / Time: Elementary / 20 minutes  
  Description:

We have lots of handouts for teaching advice (click here to see the full list). This is great for filling a spare fifteen minutes. Covers 'Should', 'If I were you' and more. A quick review, plus a practice exercise that can be done orally, or set as homework. What advice do your students have for single, balding English teachers? Find out here!

 
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