There is a huge amount of resources in this section for Pre-Intermediate which reflects the fact that students' communication has improved markedly by the pre-intermediate level. All new language items are well dealt with in this communicative section of Pre-Intermediate.

Vocabulary

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Materials to help students with pre-intermediate level vocabulary.

Flashcards and Rolecards

As well as flashcards which teachers can use to facilitate teacher to class speaking activities, there are also role cards which enable better student to student communication.

Conversation and Discussion Prompts

Students at pre-Intermediate level are able to express themselves better and there is more need for resources that prompt or guide communication and not 'dictate' it so much. In this section of Pre-Intermediate, you will find such materials that allow more open student participation.

Worksheets

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A lot of new grammar is covered at pre-intermediate level, especially the present perfect, more complicated expressions of the future and the past, conditional sentences and modals. For this reason, there are also a lot of worksheets at Pre-Intermediate.

Structure

The materials concerned with specific structures at this level deal with conditional and present perfect.

Reading and Writing

Though a lot of reading and writing work will be done outside the class, here at pre-intermediate level, there are some things you can use in the class too to help your students.

Games

A welcome opportunity for students to both continue their learning while at the same time doing something more relaxing and less like traditional 'learning'.

Check out the main board games section too.

		Books For ESL Professionals.
Keep Talking - Friederike Klippel
	Over a hundred activities geared towards creating 'realistic' communication in the classroom. The activities are divided by type, not target structure, and Klippel gives clear guidelines on aims, level, preparation and procedure. Different types of group dynamics are catered for from individual to whole class. Click here for more info.

Error Correction

With the amount of new language/grammar high at this pre-intermediate level, there are also a lot of resources which can be used either as 'grammar auction' type activities or as straight error correction worksheets.

Miscellaneous

Try here for anything else that couldn't be placed in any of the other categories. For Pre-Intermediate, there some ideas for using video in the class and a worksheet to help lower level students get the most out of monolingual dictionaries.