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Some of the ideas on these pages are from personal resources and others are from other teachers and ESOL websites and are chosen for their relative merit for teaching IELTS.  You are welcome to copy any of theses and I do not claim any ownership to them.  I have only listed to date ideas which I have used and which worked well in class.  

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Call my Bluff This exercise needs to be carefully modelled by the teacher first.  Choose a strange or difficult word from the dictionary.  Make a true definition of the word stating whether it is a verb, noun etc.  The definition should state what the word is, when it is used, why it is used, where it was used, how and by whom it was used.  So a complete background that would use at least a minute to describe the word.  Then prepare three false definitions of the same word.  Split the students into teams of four of which one should be the spokes person.  Write the word on the board and give the four different definitions of the word.  When finished ask the students to discuss and consecutively get the answer from the team spokes person.  Award the team(s) with the correct answer 1 point.  Now the teams of four should choose one word from a dictionary and one student will prepare one correct one minute delivery of the definition and the other three will each prepare three different false versions.  Teams will then present the definitions to the class and teacher will monitor and award points to teams.

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