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Present perfect versus past simple
A gap text exercise focusing on the difference between the two tenses.
Many of the sentences refer to stories in a book we�re reading at the moment - The Tangled Web - (Oxford Bookworms) - a set of short stories for advanced readers (to recommend).
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 324
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The Savoy�s head butler hits out at unprofessionalism
An authentic text (Daily Mail last December) featuring an attatck made by the head butler of the Savoy on the Paul Brunells (Lady Di�s butler) of this world. It gives a little insight into the heart of a butler- (shown more clearly in the book the "Remains of the Day" by Kazuro Ishiguro - Penguin Readers Level 6). Language activities and discussion...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 51
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Questions - present tense
Lots of practice on answering, asking and forming questions in the present tense. Aimed at adult beginners. Answer key has been added.
Level: elementary
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 93
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Cheese Rolling
Another very British tradition: cheese rolling. This year, the competition has been cancelled due to "health and safety" regulations. Comprehension questions on and beyond the text as well as language exercises have been added.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 101
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used to - be used to+ing - get used to +ing
An explanation, examples and questions focusing on used to/be/getused to +ing form - with answer key.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 291
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Past perfect transformation cards
A set of cards to practise the past perfect tense. Students have to transform a given sentence using the past perfect tense. An answer key has been added. (This can also be used as a mingling conversation activity where two students meet, work out their two sentences together, exchange cards and move on to the next person - if the cards are lamina...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 146
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A rejected Birthday Cake
With rising obesity in school children, Jamie Oliver launched a campaign to encourage healthy eating habits. At the same school where the campaign satrted, a great grand mother�s cake, made as a treat for the class of her great grand child has been sent home, uneaten. An impulse text for discussion in small groups. Language exercises on the text ha...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 70
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Present perfect simple v. present perfect continuous
By studying examples of the two tenses in the context of sentences, I�ve tried to make clear the differences between the two tenses. Then the students are asked to fill in the correct forms of the verbs given in sixteen sentences. A text containing both forms of the tense has been added to show them being used in context. The students are asked to ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 63
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So, chocolate and coffee are good for you after all!
Research has been made to find the best foods to enable you to live a long and healthy life. Chocolate, coffee and red wine are on the list of the 20 top foods, so it�s possible to indulge yourself and be healthy! (The secret of all these foods is that they contain high amounts of polyphenols.) I�ve written some language exersises and a poem contai...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 44
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How to become a good parent!
An authentic newspaper article airing the sensitive area of parenting from the Government point of view. After attemps at forming strategies to tackle obesity by eating five portions of fruit and vegetables a day, they have set up "five-a-day" steps to become a better parent Discussion questions before and after reading ensure a lively classroom di...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 125
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