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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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Why were you late?
The first text can be used any way you like really. I started of with a general question (do you beleive George?), got students to retell the story and then elicited the grammar (difference between past simple and past continuous). You could use it for anything you like though - acting it out is another option with younger kids. It�s certainly a...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 8


 
England and Spain
This is a double worksheet. The first tells the students a little about England while practising some simple geographical features vocab. The second is about Spain. It can be completed with the same vocabulary as the first although this isn�t marked on the sheet. There is one mistake in the first worksheet - so sorry! It should say island and ...
Level: elementary
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 20


 
Snow White
This worksheet uses a familiar fairytale. It provides a short reading which highlights the typical phrases found in fairytales (the ultimate idea is that you can use this to form a template for the students to write their own story). It also highlights some new vocabulary and there is a reading comprehension which encourages the students not simp...
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 28


 
Superstitions
A worksheet which can be used as a listening (see text on page 3) or a reading, using saidtext, or as an investigation exercise. Lets the students find out more about superstitions in England. Can be adjusted to level by getting rid off the �fill-in-the-gap� exercise and leaving simply a gap to be filled in.
Level: elementary
Age: 12-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 35


 
Friday the 13th
This sheet works the same way as shipwrecked. The students have to complete the gaps in the story. You shouldplay a song for each gap. This song acts as the �soundtrack� or inspiration for what they write. They have to write as the song is playing. When the song finishes...they stop writing. With less able groups you can give them more time
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7


 
Fairytale descriptions 2
This is the accompanying sheet to Fairytale�s one and three and allows the kids some practice of the vocab.
Level: elementary
Age: 9-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 21


 
Fairytale descriptions 1
This worksheet uses the students uses to topic of fairytales to enrich and revise students� descriptive vocabulary. Each picture represents a character type (princess, prince, witch, wolf, monster, fairy (godmother), dwarfs and queens) and you should ask them to think about a typical example of this character or how these characters typically are ...
Level: elementary
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 16


 
Shipwrecked
This is a writing exercise. Part of the story is already written and the students have to complete the rest of the story. For each space there are instructions as to what they have to write (e.g. what happened next?) The interesting thing about this exercise is that during each space (for each question) you should play a song. You can use any ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5


 
Sarah�s day
This is a worksheet to practise writing times and revise the school subjects and the daily routine. Enjoy.
Level: elementary
Age: 9-12
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6


 
Are you a scaredy cat?
A personality test about how daring you are using the present perfect. A suggested additional activity is to ask the student to write their own personality test about a different charactersitic (e.g. studious etc) using the present perfect.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6

 

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