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Key

These exercises refer to levels with older (pre-CEFR) labels. Below is a list of rough equivalents.

A1 Beg
A2 Elem
B1 [Pre-] Int
B2 [Upper] Int
C1 [Pre-] Adv
C2 Proficiency

The exercises below are copyright of ELT News & Views, and authors' names are provided when appropriate. They cover all levels of teaching and are shared here publicly at no charge, as a service to teachers. Most of them come from the Swapshop section. Click on the links below and the files will open in the same window - you can use the browser back button to get back to where you were.

ELT News & Views was a publication for teachers of English in the cono sur, and was published from 1994 to 2000. A full set is archived at the University of Warwick's ELT Archive. Swapshop was a section for readers to submit lesson plans and teaching ideas to share with others. As from issue 4.2 of ELT News & Views it became a Supplement, published with each subsequent issue, and the presentation became more sophisticated. Copy from issues 6.3 and 7,1 is not available. Earlier material is being included here for the sake of completeness.

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Authors Level Description Source Link
Mario Rinvolucri
 Any Getting attention N&V 1.2 GO
N&V team
 B1+ Board work N&V 1.2 GO
Herbert Puchta
 Any Dictogloss N&V 1.2 GO
N&V team
 B1+
New use for old readers		 N&V 1.2 GO
Simon Greenall
 A2+ Sentence ladders N&V 2.1 GO
Andy Hopkins
B1+ Sentence development N&V 2.1 GO
Lila Yañez
 A2+ Tense practice N&V 2.2 GO
Mercedes Capurro
 A2+ Tense practice, pronunciation hints, exercises with pop songs N&V 2.2 GO
Jack Windsor Lewis
 A2+ Pronunciation hints N&V 2.2 GO
Simon Greenall
 A2+ Exercises with pop songs N&V 2.2 GO
Judy Garton Sprenger A2+ Exercises with pop songs N&V 2.2 GO
N&V team B1+ Personalising story building
 N&V 2.3 GO
N&V team Any Tips for error correction
 N&V 2.3 GO
N&V team A2+ Disappearing sentences N&V 2.3 GO
N&V team A ny Classroom feedback (Any) N&V 2.3 GO
N&V team A2+ Dictation ideas
 N&V 3.1 GO
N&V team A2+ Writing haikus
 N&V 3.1 GO
N&V team A2+ New uses for set books N&V 3.1 GO
N&V team A1+ Reading aloud techniques N&V 3.1 GO
N&V team B1+ Practicing ‘should’ and ‘should have' N&V 3.1 GO
N&V team B2+ Advanced writing ideas N&V 3.1 GO
Caroline Gwatkin B1+ Fortune telling card game N&V 3.2 GO
Mariano Nogueira
 A2+ Playing with words (sentence building)
 N&V 3.2 GO
Susy Quarto
 A2+ Noughts and Crosses (question game)
 N&V 3.2 GO
Daniela Zuckenberg
 A2+ What do I really look like? (vocabulary practice) N&V 3.2 GO
N&V team A2+ Cuisenaire rods - sentence building N&V 3.3 GO
N&V team A2+ Buried treasure - scavenger hunt N&V 3.3 GO
N&V team B1+ CUsing a phone directory N&V 3.3 GO
N&V team Any Talking one at a time N&V 3.3 GO
N&V team B2+ Developing vocabulary N&V 3.3 GO
N&V team A2+ Memory/paraphrase dictation N&V 3.3 GO
Neville Britain
 B2+ Jigsaw Reading - the Dead Parrot N&V 4.1 GO
Mario Rinvolucri
 A2+ Translation vocabulary game (p. 6) N&V 4.1 GO
Graciela Posse
 B1+ The Magic Square (vocabulary exercise)) N&V 4.1 GO
Melissa Cudmore
 A2+ Writing ideas N&V 4.1 GO
Natalia Guarino Souza
 Any Wheel of fortune (p.7). N&V 4.1 GO
Neville Britain
 B2+ Jigsaw reading - Mackenzies' Hamburger Bar (pp. 2-7) N&V 4.2 GO
Neville Britain
 B1+ Conditional practice N&V 4.2 GO
Neville Britain
 B1+ Discussion activity N&V 4.2 GO
N&V Staff
 A2+ T-shirtwriting activity N&V 4.2 GO
Bibi Boarder
 Mixed Phrasal verb exercises (gapped texts) N&V 4.2 GO
Ana María Armendáriz   Mixed Six activities for young learners N&V 4.2 GO
Neville Britain
 B2+ Jigsaw Reading - Death of a criminal (pp 1-7) N&V 4.3 GO
Neville Britain
 A2+ Find the difference (discussion activity) N&V 4.3 GO
George Woolard (LTP)
 B1+ Jokes with idioms (sentence matching)
 N&V 4.3 GO
George Woolard (LTP)
 B1+ Find the mistake (reading exercise)
 N&V 4.3 GO
N&V team
 A2+ Using songs in the classroom N&V 4.3 GO
N&V team
 B1+ Time for reflection - conversation stimulus N&V 4.3 GO
N&V team
 B1+ Shakespeare's Cloze - word search N&V 4.3 GO
David Gregory
 A2 Claim the reward N&V 4.3 GO
Vera Menezes
 B1+ Sing that song N&V 4.3 GO
Bibi Boarder
 Any Tricky tongue-twisters N&V 4.3 GO
Neville Britain B2+ Arms Trade game (pp. 3-7)- adult N&V 5.1 GO
Cristina Araujo B1+ Text completion exercise (adjectives and adverbs) N&V 5.1 GO
N&V team B1+ Test your powers of Logic (adult) N&V 5.1 GO
N&V team A2+ A day in the country - intermediate crossword N&V 5.1 GO
Brian Tomlinson A2+ One word poems N&V 5.1 GO
N&V team C1+ Word families
N&V 5.1 GO
N&V team B2+ Find the money
 N&V 5.1 GO
N&V team A2/B1 Rhyming dice N&V 5.1 GO
N&V team Any Pronunciation Bingo N&V 5.1 GO
Neville Britain
 B2+ Jigsaw Reading - a Sherlock Holmes story
N&V 5.2 GO
Paolo Rosssetti B2+ Product Review
 N&V 5.2 GO
N&V team B2+ Who asked for the lemon ice-cream? - puzzle
 N&V 5.2 GO
N&V team B2+ A question of A to Z - word game
N&V 5.2 GO
N&V team A2+ Tongue twisters
 N&V 5.2 GO
N&V team A2 Getting dressed - crossword
 N&V 5.2 GO
Andrew Stokes
 B2+ Spoting mistaks - error detection
 N&V 5.2 GO
María Luz Cellejo Darregueyra
& Analía Duarte Lambaré
 B2+ Integrated mixed activity ideas N&V 5.2 GO
N&V team
 C1+ Propositions - discussion
 N&V 5.3 GO
N&V team
 B1/B2 At the Doctors - integrated activity
 N&V 5.3 GO
N&V team
 B2+ Second conditional practice N&V 5.3 GO
N&V team
 A2/B1 Blind Man's Bluff - game
 N&V 5.3 GO
N&V team
 any Sentence Game - group activity
 N&V 5.3 GO
N&V team
 B1+ Numbers Quiz N&V 5.3 GO
N&V team
 B1+ Crossword
N&V 5.3 GO
N&V team
 A2 Nadia's body parts - vocabulary exercise
 N&V 5.3 GO
N&V team
 Mixed Getting married N&V 5.3 GO
N&V team
 B1+ Telling a story - speaking activity
 N&V 5.3 GO
N&V team
 Mixed Find someone who... - speaking activity N&V 5.3 GO
N&V team
 A1 Crazy animals - word play N&V 5.3 GO
N&V team
 B1 Word formation N&V 5.3 GO
N&V team C1+ On the farm
N&V 6.1 GO
N&V team C1+ A-Z of London Streets
 N&V 6.1 GO
N&V team A2 Choose a song
N&V 6.1 GO
N&V team B2+ Guggenheim
N&V 6.1 GO
N&V team A2 Tag dominoes
N&V 6.1 GO
N&V team B2/C1 Test your logic skills
N&V 6.1 GO
N&V team A2/B1 Canada kids
 N&V 6.1 GO
N&V team A2+ Vocabulary cards N&V 6.1 GO
N&V team A2+ Listening Bingo N&V 6.1 GO
N&V team B1+ Crazy newspaper headlines N&V 6.1 GO
N&V team A2+ Picture descriptions N&V 6.1 GO
N&V team A2+ Write a poem N&V 6.1 GO
N&V team C1+ The Great Flood - jigsaw reading
 N&V 6.2 GO
N&V team B1/B2 Can you name a ..? - General knowledge quiz
 N&V 6.2 GO
N&V team A2/B1 Yesterday I .. info transfer speaking N&V 6.2 GO
N&V team A2 Shopping Centre .. info transfer speaking
 N&V 6.2 GO
N&V team B1 Video Review - writing exercise N&V 6.2 GO
N&V team C1+ Crazy Numbers N&V 6.2 GO
N&V team A2 In the Kitchen N&V 6.2 GO
N&V team C1+ Advertising Angles N&V 6.2 GO
N&V team B1 Glidogram - complete crossword N&V 6.2 GO
N&V team A2 Alphabet Atlas - word search
 N&V 6.2 GO
N&V team A2 Doodle boxes - creative writing/speaking N&V 6.2 GO