We can use ‘wish’ with the infinitive to mean ‘would like’ or ‘want to’. This is very formal. We don’t usually use a continuous tense with ‘wish’ in this case. I wish to speak to the school principal....

Watch the movie segment. Speculate about the reasons why the main character and her daughter are leaving everything behind in such a hurry. What might have happened? 1 ……………………………………………………..  2 ……………………………………………………..  3 ……………………………………………………. Now speculate about their future....

Here is another great activity provided by Pedro Urbano, one of this blog’s readers and major contributor.  His activities are wonderful and this one is no exception. Thanks, Pedro, once again. I’ve been teaching English for nine years...

I. Work in small groups. Describe your house kitchen. Think of appliances, food, decoration, everything you can remember: II. Make a guess of all the kitchen utensils and food the Overview Hotel has for the housekeepers. It is...

In 2010, the eyes of the world turned to Chile, where 33 miners had been buried alive by the catastrophic explosion and collapse of a 100-year-old gold and copper mine. Over the next 69 days, an international team...

This film is a classic that talks about beauty, being young forever, and what people can do to look perfect. I used this interesting scene to show students that we may use WILL or the SIMPLE PRESENT to...

I read great reviews of this movie, but I thought it was boring. However, there are great scenes that you can use in the classroom. This is one of them. I. Work in groups. Watch the segment and...

Minions is simply wonderful. I loved the movie. The story is great and the characters are awesome. I used this scene to practice “used to”. I. Work in pairs: 1 – How different was Brasilia (or your home...

ACRONYM: Technically, a word that is formed by combining some parts (usually the first letters) of some other terms. Newsgroups, chat rooms and e-mails have spawned a rich set of acronyms and initialisms for common phrases. Here is a...

This is a scary movie and this scene is perfect to speculate about what happened to the little boy. Use it with adults only, please, Review – Modals for Speculation: Use CAN’T – for something that is practically...