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Driving maze: stress in compound nouns
This is a fun activity to practice stress in compound nouns. Why do you stress the first word in "stop sign" but the second word in "green light"? Because "stop sign" is a compound noun and green light is just an adjective and a noun! Students practice stress in compound nouns in the context of driving by attempting to "drive home" through the m...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 16
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"At seventeen" song lesson - relative clause focus
Here�s a lesson on Janis Ian�s song "At seventeen". Students study vocabulary in the song, listen for main ideas, specific lines, and relative pronouns. The lesson ends with a discussion of the themes in the song.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 67
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Phrasal Verbs: Sickness and Health
This is a full communicative lesson on phrasal verbs in the context of health. Students start with a discussion, then read a dialogue about illness containing 12 health-related phrasal verbs. They get to discover the meaning and grammar of these phrasal verbs using the context of the dialogue. There are practice activities, discussion questions,...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 31
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Money Verbs and Prepositions
Why do you pay $50 FOR a pair jeans but spend $50 ON a pair of jeans? Many money verbs are used with specific prepositions. This worksheet starts with a discussion, then presents some of these verb-preposition collocations, gives students some focused practice, and then ends with a partner interview for freer practice!
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 43
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Food idioms lesson
Here is a full communicative lesson on food idioms. Students match the name of the food to the idiom, walk around the room to find the definitions, and practice the idioms in speaking and writing. Pictures of the food are provided for students who might be unfamiliar with some food vocabulary. Enjoy!
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 8
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Transportation Language: Prepositions
The first page is an attractive, easy-to-follow guide of which prepositions to use with transportation vocabulary. The second page includes a focused practice of transportation language which ends in a guessing game. Then I provide students with maps of the local transportation system, and they write directions to a place on the map. Their partn...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 11
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Gerund and Infinitive Maze
This is a game to study and practice verbs that are followed by gerunds and infinitives. First students must trace a path through the maze stopping on only verbs that are followed by the infinitive. Then, in the next activity, the game is adapted so that students get speaking practice using those verbs!
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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Relationship Phrasal Verbs (full communicative lesson)
This is a great lesson on phrasal verbs leading up to Valentines Day! The students start with a dialogue about relationships containing 10 phrasal verbs. Then there is discussion, self-discovery of meanings and phrasal verb type (separable, inseparable, intransitive), a fill-in-the blank activity which can be a launch for an interesting discussio...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 15
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Conversation board game
Here�s a fun game that promotes conversation. It also brings out interesting stories, and students learn more about each other. Page 1 is the board game and page 2 contains the instructions.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 6
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Pronunciation: "th"
Here�s a worksheet for practicing the pronunciation of the �th� sounds. Students practice individual sounds, have conversations using the sounds, and try to distinguish words with �th� from similar sounding words. It is best to have a set of mirrors for the first activity, but it can be done without.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 33
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