Prepare pictures of men or women in various different clothes. Each picture must have a matching pair, that is, another picture with a person wearing exactly the same clothes. Give each student a picture and ask them to find a partner. Each student describes their picture to their partner without showing their partner the picture, for example, "She is wearing a short blue dress and high heels." When two students are confident they have the same picture they can stand to one side of the room. If they do not have the same picture they should find a new partner and describe their picture once more. Continue until every student has found their partner.
Prepare sheets of paper to teach modal sentences. On the left side, list sentences using modal verbs, such as "He should be here by now," and "You must not eat during class." On the right side of the page write a list of concepts associated with modal verbs such as, "Prohibition, " "Advice," "Necessity" and so on. Students work in pairs to draw lines between the sentences and the correct concept. For example, students should draw a line between "You must not eat in class," and "Prohibition."
Choose a reading appropriate to the level of your class, perhaps from their course book, with four or five different paragraphs. Tell students to keep the reading face down on their desk. Write on the whiteboard or blackboard a piece of information from each paragraph, for example, "The boy sees a boat," "The girl meets a new friend," and so on. Set a time limit of a minute or more, depending on the complexity of the reading. Allow the students to turn over the reading, quickly scan it and attempt to match the correct sentence to a paragraph.
Prepare slips of paper on which you have written a word and its definition. Give every student a slip of paper and ask them to stand up. Students read the definition on their piece of paper to a partner who tries to guess the correct word. Students then swap their slips of paper and find a new partner. Continue for ten minutes or until students can effectively match all definitions to the correct word.