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Converstation cards:- set phrases with "do"
A set of cards containing questions with set phrases with "do" embedded. Print, laminate, cut and give each student a card. They should mingle and ask their question to one student (and vice versa) and then move on to the next student where the whole procedure starts again.
Level: elementary
Age: 14-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 42
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Mr Busy asks a client to stop smoking (GERUND OR INFINITIVE)
After focussing on the use of either the gerund or the to-infinitive, the idea of this text is to practise choosing the correct form. In some cases, either could be used. An answer key has been provided.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 251
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Your thoughts about Christmas
A set of conversation questions for the last leasson before Christmas - asking for their thoughts, reflections and opinions about Advent, Christmas and New Year. I�ll be using it for a relaxing discussion while they�re sitting eating Christmas Pudding and drinking tea!
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 127
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Happy Birthday WWW
The internet has changed our lives has been around for the last twenty years. An easy authentic BBC text flashing back briefly to how it all began and asks the question whether we could imagine a life without it? Language exercises and discussion questions have been added with a key.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 102
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Island without crime calls for the police!
An authentic text: a Scottish island has to call the police station on the neighbouring island (as it doesn�t have one) to investigate the first case of vandalism. An interesting story to prompt discussion about crime rates today /crime in general. Language exercises have been included with an answer key.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 128
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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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Mr Busy thinks back to his childhood (used to /would) - harder version
Mr Busy walks down "Memory Lane". A gap-fill exercise focusing on using used to and would. This is a harder version in that the students have to chose the verb combinations themselves. I�m uploading an easier version for the less able, too.
This episode was inspired by Nika Jana (many thanks -hope you like it:)
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 286
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George Orwell�s house is up for sale
An authentic text with interesting facts about Geroge Orwell�s childhood. Comprehension questions as well as a grammar focus on would/used to with a synonym exercise. An answer key has been added.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 110
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Conversation cards (10) :expressions and phrasal verbs with GET_2
Another set of conversation cards with a focus of using expressions nd phrasal verbs with get. On each card the meaning of the verb in the question has been given.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 131
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Mr Busy is back, but not alone, at a late summer barbecue
Another episode in Mr Busy�s life which he now shares with Lizzy. The story picks up old threads from the other stories while concentrating on finding the correct verb forms from the context. A gap fill exercise, distinguishing between the the simple and continuous forms of the present perfect and the present tense, relying on signal words and cont...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 90
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