To go with my list of the best articles in 2019, here is a careful selection of last year’s prime crop of PDFs, in approximate order of how likely I am to use them again soon. If you really like this (or get so far down that you get past the good stuff), a similar list for 2018 is here.
Giving directions free and controlled speaking
Business communication prepositions and determiners pairwork speaking game
Business communication pairwork correction game
Social issues discuss and agree determiners practice
Direct, indirect and taboo Xmas questions
Countable and uncountable nouns in IELTS speaking and writing
Phrasal verbs storytelling game
Personality words bluffing game
Positive and negative business vocabulary storytelling game
Word formation list dictation game
Xmas vocabulary speculating games
Opinions on current affairs and media
Describing music things in common game
Good and bad body language roleplay game
Recommendations with movie vocabulary
Make your own conditionals discussion questions
Job applications line by line brainstorming
Present Continuous plasticine shapes
Reporting verbs sentence completion games
Adverbs in CAE and CPE Use of English Part One
Adverbs in CPE Use of English Part Three game
First letter phonics miming game
Meeting people and indirect clarifying questions
Describing your company and job longer speaking games
Clothes and appearance recommendations
Reported speech discussion questions
Positive and negative language for reviews
Singular, plural and uncountable in IELTS Listening
Likes and dislikes and countable/ uncountable practice
Present and past ability sentence completion games
Like and don’t like things in common sentence completion
CPE Reported Speech key word sentence transformations
Gradable and extreme adjectives speaking card games
Please plus verb for offers and commands in emails
Present Continuous and like with -ing Xmas questions
Generalising about Xmas and the New Year
Abilities of animals can/ can’t games
Prefixes with opposite meanings jigsaw games
Quoting sources good and bad connotations
Travel English imperatives and requests practice
Likes and dislikes guessing game
Needs analysis and brainstorming
Needs analysis and Aptis Speaking Part One practice
Expanding Aptis Speaking Part One answers activities
Future forms in IELTS Speaking and Writing
Gradable and extreme adjectives practice discussion questions
Should have for past regrets and advice speaking
Possessives, body and adjectives pick and draw
Present Simple questions with be speaking
House and home likes and recommendations
Countable and uncountable pick & draw
Past, present and future in IELTS Writing Part One
Adverbs of frequency and times dice bluff
Aptis Speaking Part One functional language games
Comparing places comparatives random pelmanism card game
Weather adverbs of frequency practice
Feelings and nouns pick and draw game
CPE Speaking Part Three on the future
CPE Speaking Part One on the future
Requests and future forms review
Describing people and things bluff
Like and be like Xmas questions
It is They are and adjectives Xmas pick and draw
Recommendations and embedded questions
News and media countable and uncountable
Experiences in your job extended speaking
Negotiating insurance roleplays
Communication trends and practice
Aptis Speaking Part Three longer phrases