Conti-fy Your Classroom: Low or No Prep, High-Impact Activities That Work

This practical workshop focuses on a bank of adaptable, high-impact activities inspired by the Conti method that language teachers can use immediately to boost student engagement and fluency. All activities are built on the principles of Extensive Processing Instruction (EPI) and reflect the MARSEARS sequence - ensuring that students interact with language in meaningful, varied, and memorable ways.

Participants will experience six core activities and each task supports repetition, retrieval, and attention to form while keeping students active and motivated. All are low-prep and versatile: ideal for warm-ups, fast finishers, extension work, or full lesson routines.

This workshop will not delve into the theory of EPI but instead model what practical EPI looks like in action. Teachers will leave with a ready-to-use repertoire of go-to tasks that can be tailored to any sentence builder or curriculum focus. The session aims to build confidence, reduce planning load, and create classrooms where language is practised meaningfully and frequently - without relying on traditional worksheets or high-stakes output too early.