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VERB PREFIXES [word formation]
Dear colleagues, hope you are all well. While word formation rules which are related to nouns / adjectives seem to be easily grasped by students, verb cases, and particularly the formation of verbs with the help of prefixes are, in my experience, is somewhere in the background and not very often dealt with. Though, it depends... In brief, ss in thi...
Level: advanced
Age: 15-100
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Downloads: 35
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WRITING TASK 1 FOR IELTS: DESCRIBING GRAPHS AND BAR CHARTS [methodology]
Hello! I�ve been inspired to work out printables with writing assignments for a while ... Well, why don�t we this time take a look at how we complete Task 1 in the writing paper of IELTS? A student of mine has just taken IELTS, so my mind is still occupied with its challenges. I myself did the exam only once in my life, so I don�t consider my...
Level: advanced
Age: 15-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 49
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WRITING AN ARTICLE FOR CAMBRIDGE B2 FIRST (FCE) [methodology]
My recently uploaded contribution concerned writing an essay in the CAE exam. Let me now proceed with this type of printables and share my views on how to teach our students to write an article as one of possible B2 First (FCE) exam writing tasks. Hope it�s useful for you!
Level: advanced
Age: 15-100
Type:
Downloads: 47
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WRITING AN ESSAY FOR CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH ADVANCED (CAE) [methodology]
Let me now present a more specific printable which, hopefully, will be appreciated as it is meant to provide guidance to those who are willing to understand the nuances of writing a CAE-like essay. A product-writing technique makes the basis of the content. However, some original approach is followed, i.e. students not only develop their writing sk...
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 77
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COMPARATIVE STRUCTURES [beyond the simple rules of comparatives and superlatives]
This printable contains some special structures where comparative and superlative adjectives are used. Students first study them with examples and then move on to the production stage where they come up with their ideas. Hope this one is fine with you.
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
Type:
Downloads: 42
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THE LIFE OF MELBOURBE [a listening activity]
Students are offered a video about Melbourne and its sights. They first watch it at least twice to choose T / F / NM for the statements about Melbourne. Then ss are asked to make up sentences with the impersonal construction with "it" as a subject. Mainly addressed to intermediate level students, but might as well be used in advanced classes, I gue...
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
Type:
Downloads: 36
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ANIMATED FILM LANGUAGE PRACTICE [3]
The third animated film language practice set of activities (new vocabulary, reading, writing and speaking). By the way, one of the best, if not the best, cartoon I watched last year! Very moving and heart-warming! Enjoy!
Level: elementary
Age: 10-15
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Downloads: 7
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WORDS & CORRELATED CATEGORIES [a speaking task]
Hello,
the printable you see is aimed at giving your students some good food for thinking. Their goal is to take a category from the list on the right, think up a word associated with this category and starting with a certain letter of the alphabet, use it in a sentence of the same letter and finish it. The activity seems thought-provoking to me, ...
Level: advanced
Age: 15-100
Type:
Downloads: 49
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ANIMATED FILM LANGUAGE PRACTICE [2]
The second cartoon-based set of tasks. Students first do a pre-watch task (they match words to pictures), then they watch the cartoon and point at the studied words, then they check how well they remember the contents of the cartoon and do a reading multiple choice comprehension activity; finally, they describe some pictures from the cartoon.
Level: elementary
Age: 10-15
Type:
Downloads: 9
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PRACTISING THE LANGUAGE OF COMPARISON & CONTRAST [on the basis of jobs] [4]
The last part of the set at last.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type:
Downloads: 32
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