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Guy Fawkes� night: listening and vocabulary exercises
A vocabulary matching exercise, listening comprehension, and phrasal verbs exercise based on a listening text about Guy Fawkes� night on November 5th in the UK. (Link to mp3 file is included in the word document.) Source text is on p1, exercises on p2 and p3, answers on p4 and p5 of the word document.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 27
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Valentine�s Day: SPEAKING ACTIVITY Role plays
A set of 6 pair work role plays which centre on the theme of negotiations around Valentine�s Day. I designed them for use with an adult class (it could be awkward with younger learners!) but they could be adapted for other groups.
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 45
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Badgers: ACT or SAT reading comprehension
Reading passage in the style of the ACT and SAT reading tests. Used to help prepare a student for these tests.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 20
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Unlikely competitors at Sochi 2014 READING COMPREHENSION
Information about 4 unlikely competitors at Sochi 2014. Exercises include true/false, gap-fill, correct the mistake, answer in sentences, vocabulary matching, using key phrases, creative writing or discussion.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 59
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Selfies - news article and discussion
Article "Selfies have killed more people than sharks this year".
Exercises: Warm-up questions, explanation of an information poster, comprehension, vocabulary matching and sentence completion, role plays.
Level: advanced
Age: 13-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 117
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Reading comprehension - 2 stories about NZ animals
2 articles from the BBC. One is about people replacing sheep at rodeos; the other is about the kokako, a bird in New Zealand thought to possibly be extinct.
Exercises cover "wh" questions, vocabulary, gist reading, reformulation, and creative writing tasks.
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 46
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Phrasal verbs in pairs: off/on, up/down, up/off
Page 1 is an easier version of page 2 - choose the style that suits your class better. This is to introduce the verb pairs and get pupils to provide definitions.
Page 3 offers open-ended discussion questions and a gap-fill exercise.
Level: advanced
Age: 11-100
Type:
Downloads: 18
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Back to school discussion questions
21 "back to school" discussion questions and phrases to include in answers.
Would work as a 1-1, paired, group or whole class discussion activity.
Designed to stimulate discussion and reflection in the first weeks of term.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 65
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Easily confused words: will, would, want, would like
An overview of 4 easily confused and misused verb structures: will, would, would like, want.
There are simple exercises to practise the question and negative form of these structures, and then reading comprehensions and questions which use the structures in context.
Answers are provided on p4 of the document.
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 15
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Using a question word to introduce a subordinate clause
Thorough explanation of, and exercises about, introducing subordinate clauses using question words or if/whether.
E.g. Where is the church? / I don�t know where the church is.
Worksheet takes a deductive approach. Pupils work out the rule from the examples given, fill in a flowchart to explain the rule, and then practise with closed and open-ende...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: grammar-guide
Downloads: 19
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Comparatives and superlatives in adverts
Examples of adjectives of differing lengths used in real advertisements. A good way to introduce or refresh the topic of comparatives and superlatives by asking pupils to deduce the rules from the examples given. (Can be used in conjunction with my �comparatives flowchart� worksheet.)
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100
Downloads: 21
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