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HollyHirst
Holly Hirst
United Kingdom



I am an Englishwoman working in Russia. I teach mostly childrens classes but have a few adult classes in among! Previously, I worked in Spain.

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Spiders
This is the second of my horror story worksheets. The story is an urban legend which you can find many versions of on the net. This has been adapted specially for my pre-intermediate class. It can be used for reading for pleasure or maybe by giving pairs of students a particular story and then putting one student from each pair or group in a big...
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 7


 
The Clown Doll - A Halloween story
This is a halloween story I used with a group of pre-intermediate students. It can be used as a reading for pleasure exercise but I used it as a class activity. I gave each group a different story and then different members from each group joined a sharing group and they compared their stories and retold them.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 26


 
Irregular verbs test
First page tests forms, second page tests meaning. Plain and simple irregular verb test!
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7


 
Creating a soap opera
I used this worksheet with a teen group to help them structure their project which was to write and perform a ten minute sketch of a soap opera scene. We brainstormed typical soap opera plots first and had previously done work on the past simple and on emotions which we included in the plays. The group really got into it and produced some great...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 4


 
Traditional scottish dancing
This worksheet is meant to be an introduction to Scottish country dancing. I�ve done it a lot with my kids and they had great fun doing the dances. At the bottom of the second page of the worksheet, I have attached a webpage address which has a number of dances explained and songs reccomended. As you�ll see, I�ve also pointed out there are plenty...
Level: elementary
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 25


 
Creature vocab dominoes
This is a worksheet which I have used to accompany my ghost stories worksheet. I use it to preteach the vocabulary about animal parts. It�s really just a simple game of dominoes. Enjoy.
Level: elementary
Age: 9-14
Type: others
Downloads: 1


 
Ghost stories
This is a reading exercise. I normally give different readings to different kids and they can then ask each other questions to get the answers. I�ve also done it as a �running reading� with the text put up in various places. I often start the lesson by cutting the stories in half and having the kids find the person with the other half of their...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 27


 
Robin Hood Dominoes
This is a very simple Robin Hood Domino game to practise the vocabulary with the kids.
Level: elementary
Age: 6-11
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 7


 
Cry - Rihanna
This is a simple exercise on the Rihanna song �Cry� - a specific request from my students. I�ve just done a simple gap fill, focusing mainly on verbs and some other words that I�m working on with my students, and a true and false exercise. Hope it�s useful
Level: elementary
Age: 11-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6


 
Jamaica introduction
This is another introduction sheet in the passport series. It�s a reading this time. I hope it comes in useful.
Level: elementary
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6

 

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