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Synonyms (2)
A second page of synonyms. It�s always good to understand some common idioms, even better, to be able to use them in normal, everyday conversation. They are an enrichment to standard vocabulary.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 104
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How Mr Busy�s life is changing- (get used to+ing/be used to+ing)
Another episode focusing on "to get used to/can�t get used to +ing/ be used to+ing". An answer key has been added.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 99
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Questions, questions, questions!
A page of bookmarks to laminate and cut up for elementary students who might be having difficulty with forming questions. Different types of questions have been used and various question words and built into a kind of poem with every second line rhyming for reading aloud and just being handy to have in a book etc. in an attempt to help students wit...
Level: elementary
Age: 10-17
Type: others
Downloads: 37
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Wine in a glass
An authentic text used as impulse for discussion and focus on phrasal verbs. One of Britain�s latest inventions has become a great success - buying wine by the glass in a supermarket- even though it wasn�t backed in the beginning, it has risen to fame thanks to Marks and Spencers.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 86
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Conversation cards (9) MAMO present continuous focus
Another set of MAMO cards - this time the focus is on the present continuous.
Level: elementary
Age: 10-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 78
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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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20 minutes in the fresh air works wonders!
A short newspaper article used an an impulse text for a discussion on the theme of giving yourself an energy boost during the day: 20 minutes in the fresh air versus a cup of coffee.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 36
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The Old British Phone Box - New Uses!
Villages around Britain have been allowed to buy their phone boxes (without the phone) from British Telecom (BT) for a pound. There has been a competition to find the best use of the box. This is the story of one of the winners! A good topic to discuss the change in communication methods over the years. An authentic text from the Daily Mail
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 148
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The living bridge.
Needing to cross rivers in the wettest place on Earth caused inhabitants in the rain forests of north eastern India to use their natural resources in an extremely clever and creative way. Living bridges have been "cultivated" in the Cherrapunji region for the last 500 years! One short authentic text with FIVE exercises - (discussion work - grammar ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 144
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Re-cycling of recent texts
Extra activities for four of the recent texts I put up (in the name of re-cycling:)). Once the students have become accustomed to a text, have understood it, the vocabulary has been learned, the same text can be re-produced at a later date to reinforce what has been learned and to focus on, in this case, the vocabulary.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 14
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