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Food scares are not going away, warn experts
This is a reading comprehension sourced from a Hong Kong newspaper and is designed for secondary school students. The grammar focus is on tenses/voices (15 marks) and articles (21 marks). Based on a current affair food scares, it is aimed at familiarising students with the relevant vocabulary items on the topic, as well as raising students?conce...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 22
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Worth-reading and life inspiring messages (12 points)! Interview with Warren Buffet.
Worth-reading and life inspiring messages! Interview with Warren Buffet. There was a one-hour interview on CNBC with Warren Buffet, the second richest man in the world who has donated $31 billion to charity. Here are some very interesting aspects of his life:
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: Choose
Downloads: 36
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Encounter with mermaid brings green message. Re-uploaded with a short activity added.
It is a great story! Practical use of words and uplifting story line, exquisite vocabularies! I would keep my promise to save the last mermaid! Suitable for HKDSE School-based assessment (SBA) print-fiction (a short fiction for practice).
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 39
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Defining and non-defining clauses
Worksheet on Relative clauses: defining and non-defining clauses.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 166
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Real life, dreams and fantasy, written by a girl aged 17. Reuploaded with short activity added.
Suitable for HKDSE School-based assessment (SBA) - print-fiction (a short fiction for practice). Comments: What an eerie idea!!! There is beauty in imperfection - that is for certain. On the other hand, a cost for perfection. The diary extract was amusing in its verisimilitude and such poignant narration!
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 81
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Email writing (Giving suggestions)
A farmer is asking for suggestions to solve a few problems he is facing in his farm. The student who is going to write an email to the farmer is Jack. Actually, this is a follow up task as some suggestions is already given to the farmer previously.
Level: elementary
Age: 9-14
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 13
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Gerunds and Infinitives in context: A letter talking about ways to improve English.
A nice worksheet with answer keys.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 190
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Reported Speech: Alarms ring over online dangers, (news on June 23, 2011)
Rewrite direct speech into reported speech (in context). Words and phrases learnt: Social networking sites, grooming by pedophiles (an adult who is sexually attracted to a child or children) or cyber bullying, consequences of disclosing too much of their personal lives online, practice of tagging people in pictures, facial recognition technology�Me...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 94
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There is nothing like a mothers love, written by a girl aged 12
A very touching story with good self-reflection done by the main character. A girl discovers a secret from her past and rejects her parents. A short writing task is added at the end. Suitable for HKDSE School-based assessment (SBA) print-fiction (a short fiction for practice).
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: Choose
Downloads: 84
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Modal verbs in context (19 marks): Governments must unite to deal with threat posed by global warming.
Modal verbs in context (19 marks): Governments must unite to deal with threat posed by global warming. Suggested answers are given (p2). Giving suggestions and advice by using modal verbs.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 94
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Pronouns (A table is shown on page 6 to summarise the forms)
Personal pronouns: I, we, you, they, he, she, it
Personal pronouns: me, us, you, them, him, her, it
Possessive adjectives: my, our, your, their, his, her, its
Possessive pronouns: mine, ours, yours, theirs, his, hers, its
Reflexive pronouns: myself, ourselves, yourself, himself, themselves etc.
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Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Downloads: 40
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Pride and Prejudice (25 slides)
introducing the auther, the main theme, the story background and the different characters.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 114
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Connectives (useful powerpoints)
Connectives to link up similar ideas, reasons, results, time, contrary ideas, following events, condition, duration, concession
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Downloads: 107
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Part II revision (with fun pictures)
Ask students to recall the terms (after learning them in Part I). Fun pictures included. Words will appear after clicking.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 25
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Shark killing is merciless! People should think twice before trying shark fin soup.
The process of shark-finning is cruel, with real, vivid pictures showing the shark killing process. People should think twice before trying shark fin soup. You can also learn some adjectives to describe shark fin soup.
Level: elementary
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 3
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Fair Trade
Unfair trade: The rich countries produce too much of the farming products and dump them to poor countries (at a very low price). Poor local farming industries suffer. In WTO? Korean farmers demonstrated/ protested to voice their dissatisfaction.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 12
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Interesting and informative powerpoint
Endangered species
How many kinds of plants and animals become extinct each week?
What are they?
Why are they disappearing?
Where is home for most of the world��s plants and animals?
Sadly, rainforests are being destroyed at a rapid rate.
About 4 - 50,000 km2 are destroyed every year (the siz...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 20
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Cosmetic Surgery Part I: Pictures showing the artificial beauty contest in China and 4 different cases of the contestants
Cosmetic Surgery Part I: Pictures showing the artificial beauty contest in China and 4 different cases of the contestants
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 44
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The Food Pyramid
A guide to help us make healthy food choices.
Each group on the Pyramid contains certain nutrients. If we eat foods from each group we��ll be sure to get all the nutrients we need
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 47
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Effects on unhealthy lifesyle - Part I
�H Get diabetes
�H Get heart disease
�H Get high blood pressure
�H Become obese
�H Become stressed
�H Grow pimples
�H Get rotten teeth
�H Muscles become weak
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 36
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