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Find the mistake 5
All genuine errors made by my students. This series of sheets tests students ability to spot mistakes made by others - grammar, spelling and punctuation. I usually put students in teams to see who can find the most - the competitive spirit always guarantees much more attention and fun in the classroom! Thank you to zailda for the template.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-14
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 82
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Writing personal information - editable
A very basic writing frame for students to subsitute words for their own details. I work with teenagers many of whom are pre-literate or are not used to writing in the Roman alphabet. Copying a basic frame like this and inserting their own details gives a real sense of achievement. I imagine this would be useful for young children too for basic ...
Level: elementary
Age: 5-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 28
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Adverbs of frequency/frequency expressions
An ordering game with a wide variety of frequency adverbs/expressions. Cut it up into individual cards and get students to reorder. I used this in groups and it created a lot of argument and discussion about which should come first!! As a follow up activity I asked students to write about their daily activities using a range of the expressions. ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-14
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 8
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Informal and formal Writing Styles
A worksheet to familiarise students with the differences in formal and informal writing styles. Adapted from Writing Extra - CUP
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 30
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Antonyms Matching Cards - Intermediate
A card matching game which can be used in a number of different ways. I print and laminate as I find they can be used again and again.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 60
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Writing sentences with adjectives
Writing worksheet to practise adjective order. Adapted from SfL E2. Thanks to baiba for template.
Level: elementary
Age: 6-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 25
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Homophones - choose the correct word
A worksheet with basic homophones. Students choose the correct word to complete the sentence. As an extension I got the students to write further sentences using both words in context to consolidate learning. Thank you to baiba for the template.
Level: elementary
Age: 7-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 37
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Find the mistake 1
All genuine errors made by my students. This series of sheets tests students ability to spot mistakes made by others - grammar, spelling and punctuation. I usually put students in teams to see who can find the most - the competitive spirit always guarantees much more attention and fun in the classroom!
Thank yo to zailda for the template.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 107
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Adverbs of Frequency
An ordering activity for adverbs of frequency. Students have to put the words from 100 downwards - suggested order on second page.
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 10
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Homophones - choose the correct word
A worksheet to practise basic homophones. As an extension I got my students to write sentences using both options in order to consolidate learning. Thank you to baiba for the template.
Level: elementary
Age: 5-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 57
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Active vs Passive
A comparison of a sentence in the active followed by a slide to elicit the same idea in the passive. All tenses are covered.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 13
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It is said that
How to use the passive to report in the passive, using such constructions as �it is said that� �it is thought that� �he is believed to be� etc.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 61
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Appearance and personality words
A short but sweet ppt on basic vocab for describing appearance and personality
Level: elementary
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 13
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Some, Any, Have you got, How much, Shopping list
A 12 page powerpoint I used to cover some and any and then use them to have a shopping activity using "Have you got any ...? How much is ....? Do they have any ....?. etc etc There are sheets with shopping lists, pictures of food, target vocab etc, adapt as necessary. Also used realia to add int...
Level: elementary
Age: 8-17
Downloads: 11
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Simple, complex and compound sentences
An 11 page powerpoint showing how to construct complex and compound sentences with conjunctions. An explanation of main and subordinate clauses along with exercises to practise. Part of a series of ppts to improve writing skills.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 79
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Improving your punctuation
Part of a series of ppts. A 27 page ppt to help learners with how to use punctuation correctly. This includes: commas, full stops, colons, semicolons, exclamation marks, question marks, capital letters, apostrophes, quotation marks, hyphens, dashes, brackets. Really helped with improving my stude...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 38
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Sentences - how to write them
A 25 page powerpoint on writing sentences - how to identify the subject, verb or verb phrase. Also includes exercises for learners to complete. Part of a series of ppts to improve writing skills.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 41
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Expanding Sentences
A PPT to help develop writing skills - step-by-step build a sentence adding adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions and pronouns. Helps students see how they can make sentences more interesting.
Level: elementary
Age: 5-17
Downloads: 25
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Spelling strategies and rules
A 34 page ppt to help with the problem of spelling. Part of a series of ppts. This one deals with reasons for incorrect spellings, strategies to identify problems and deal with them as well as spelling rules for, amongst others, plurals, -ing and -ed spellings, -ly spellings, -er and -est spelling...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 31
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What am I? A team game
20 slides. A team game to be used as a warmer / filler based on the old favourite 20 questions. Clues start difficult and get progressively easier for teams to guess the identity of the �thing, place, person or animal�. I tend to get teams to stop the clues when they think they have an answer to a...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 56
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Grammar terms - word class
A quiz to practise the parts of speech. Students have to choose between adjectives, nouns, adverbs, verbs, conjunctions, articles, pronouns, etc
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
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