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the Mom song
I loved doing this with my students. It can be used with the video on You Tube with a woman singing this in an opera fashion to William Tell Ouverture. It concerns family, it is perfect for teenagers, pure grammar in disguise...It is pure joy to listen to her and teenagers really get a kick out of it...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 27
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Harry Potter & the Philosopher�s Stone - kids� play
This is a play written for our school�s 10th anniversary - we included our dance groups, preschool/school groups(the little ones had their rhymes) and teenagers - they all had their part in it and it lasted for about 40 mins all together. They performed it at the theatre and it was quite memorable. The boy who played Voldemort is now finishing univ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 93
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USE OF ENGLISH - key word, word formation, synonyms
This is part 2 of my FCE use of English exercises. It can be used for practice or tests for all advanced levels, both teenage and adults, regardless of whether they�re taking the FCE or not. It is meant to drill word formation(suffixes and prefixes), key word transformation of sentences(with comparison and passive) and synonyms. The word formation ...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 490
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WORD PUZZLE - a fun way to expand advanced vocabulary
This is a fun way to deal with word formation and vocabulary expansion when working with advanced sts. It contains instructions and materials for 4 activities which follow each other during the course of the lesson, but can also be used separately. You can apply the same principle to any vocabulary you choose, and it starts from words and expands i...
Level: advanced
Age: 10-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 116
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children�s play - THE TORTOISES� PICNIC
Here�s another play I have to share with you - based on another traditional English story. It�s a funny play about a family of tortoises who decide to go on a picnic. I tried it with preschoolers (6-7 yrs old, 2nd & 3rd year of learning), and with school kids (7-9 yrs old), and both times it turned out great. It combines topics like family, food, n...
Level: elementary
Age: 5-10
Type: reading
Downloads: 116
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BEGINNERS� CHECK
This is a very simple ws you can use for beginner kids, as revisiom and consolidation. My kids like to paste these in their notebooks, because e. g. they use the stars exercise as picture dictionary. Sometimes I even use it with preschoolers who can read and write. I hope you find use for it.
Level: elementary
Age: 6-9
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 4
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student bloopers & history- FUNNY!!!
When you find a funny text, you just have to turn it into a great lesson. This is a lesson plan I developed to take a funny twist to a unit about human history, and it�s based on student bloopers. The lesson plan contains introductory activities, word games, the copy of the text and a follow-up project(5 activities, over 10 pages). The topic is mul...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 91
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STARDUST - ADVANCED COMPREHENSION WORKSHEET
This worksheet was created for my advanced students. It is a comprehension worksheet, a follow-up for the movie Stardust, but I integrated lots of grammar into it, so there are conditionals, reported speech, word formation, as well as synonyms, translation and writing and reading practice. I hope it�s useful.
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 37
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READING FUN - JUMBLED TEXTS
This is an idea on how to get your students to read through different texts at more advanced levels. It�s a game for groups - simple assembling various topics texts in jumbled paragraphs, but the texts are not that easy to deal with. The instructions are inside, and you can edit if you want.
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 127
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THE INKHEART PROJECT - the book - part 3 INKDEATH
If you�ve always loved fantasy stories like I have and were looking for one for your intermediate and advanced teenagers, Inkheart might be really interesting for you - having the gift to read out things and characters from books into real life, who wouldn�t want that? This part of the project is based on part 3 of the book, called Inkdeath, and yo...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 70
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Past Simple - practical revision
This is a very simple ppt to revise the past simple tense. I used it with my kids and adults, and it was fun because we played it as games(each slide was one game) in 2 teams, and only made notes afterwards. I even used some exercises in a test later on.
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Downloads: 17
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ELEMENTARY REVISION GAMES - kids� level 2
This is a ppt I use to revise at the end of the year with my level 2 kids. It covers numbers (ordinal and cardinal), months, days of the week, school subjects, to be and prepositions, and we usually do it as a competition between two teams. Hope you find it useful.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-11
Downloads: 122
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ALPHABET LESSON - SONG AND RHYME FOR KIDS
This is a rhyme I made up for my kids to add a word to each letter of the alphabet. They can perform it in front of the parents, adding signs for letters and movement for words, and you can add any alphabet song they like. My kids liked it a lot - I hope yours do, too.
Level: elementary
Age: 6-10
Downloads: 46
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AN IMAGINARY PLANET - reading, speaking and writing for intermediate students
I have created this ppt for my internediate kids (9-10 yrs old), as follow-up for space and astronauts (a text in Chatterbox 4). It�s a reading text about an imaginary planet, a speaking activity about Earth, and a writing task to create their own planet. (There�s also a matching worksheet available...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-12
Downloads: 49
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HOLD MY HAND - song ppt with vocabulary tasks
I know we have many wss with this song already, but I simply couldn�t resist this song, so I made this ppt for my students to sing along with and afterwards do some vocabulary and discussion tasks (also has a ws with lyrics&discussion points, and project ideas for teachers, but can be used separatel...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Downloads: 96
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GRAMMAR ASSOCIATION GAMES
This is a collection of 4 ppt association games (I used my own template - available in the free templates) for grammar revision. Each slide is one game and you can use all games at once to revise some grammar, or one by one as you introduce a certain topic. Hope you find it useful!
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 190
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children�s play - THE UGLY DUCKLING
This is the children�s play I wrote on the basis of the original story. It�s made to suit the needs of my groups(we did a play and a puppet show with it), so I added a few characters (couldn�t load their pics, sorry, too large a format. They absolutely loved it, and so did the parents, especially be...
Level: elementary
Age: 7-10
Downloads: 157
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SILLY ENGLISH - how easy is it to translate things?
This is a ppt I prepared for my advanced teenagers who got just a little bit overly self-confident as far as their knowledge was concerned. It is based on an e-mail I got with ridiculously translated hotel and other signs around the world. It�s really funny, but the task for the sts is to say it in ...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 82
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CHRISTMAS SPIDER - ROLE PLAY
This is an old role-play of mine based on world legends, tales, songs and nursery rhymes about Christmas(I�ve just updated the word doc uploaded here before). I�ve used it as role play and a puppet show and am planning to use it again this year. It�s nice to do with children, because there are lots ...
Level: elementary
Age: 6-11
Downloads: 74
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HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON - follow-up quiz
This is a follow-up quiz to play after watching How to Train Your Dragon. It has over 20 slides(all not visible in the preview), and each slide contains 2 mistakes in spelling, grammar or data, and, of course, accompanying pics to make it more fun. The final slides are the key and point assessment. ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-17
Downloads: 34
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FANTASY LAND 2
This is another part of my Fantasy Land collection (5 wss and another OE). This one is a bit more difficult - it requires reading and filling in the blanks from given options. Hope it�s of use!
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-14
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TEDDYBEARS - PRESENT CONTINUOUS AND A STORY
This is a simple OE for elementary students to practise some Present Continuous (two tasks, all with animated teddies, followed by a story in rhyme with a fill in task and a challenge. I hope you like the story.
Level: elementary
Age: 6-12
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READ & LEARN - SYNONYMS & WORD FORMATION
This is a vocabulary task based on a poem by F. Letras (with his kind permission) and it contains synonyms, word formation and reading comprehension. I hope you find it useful. The poem has an interesting ending, so you might even use it (for Halloween maybe?) as an open-ended poem with your stodent...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
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CONDITIONALS WITH HARRY POTTER
This is an OE with four different types of conditionals (from zero to third) and a fun video/audio challenge at the end, based on Harry Potter stories. It�s another addition to moravc�s project on learning grammar with Harry Potter. I hope you find it useful!
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
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SHERLOCK HOLMES 3
This is the third OE I�ve made about Sherlock HOlmes. It contains two reading tasks - a multiple choice(based on a tex from Wikipedia about Holmes�s habits) and a true/false(based on a ppt video about Conan Doyle.). Hope you can use it.
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
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PREPOSITIONS in idioms and phrases
This is my third OE. The graphics are simple, but it will be useful for my FCE students to revise some idioms and phrasal verbs. The tasks are fill-ins. I hope you find it helpful.
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
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ON THE BEACH - beach, ocean, summer, and grammar!
This is a revision OE with tasks to practise have got, prepositions, ocean vocabulary, prepositions and there is/are. It�s filled with beach and ocean pics and vocabulary, so it can be done for fun even during the summer break.
Level: elementary
Age: 7-100
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LET�S PLAY PIRATES!
I made this OE for my students who just love pirate stories, treasure hunting and pirate songs. It has a listening task (a very catchy pirate song), a reading task and a treasure hunt with prepositions. I hope you like it! AAAAArrrrgh!
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-12
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DEMONS - IMAGINE DRAGONS
Trying to find a new song that has a message and no lyrics I would have to censor, I came across this one. I think it has something to teach my teenagers about not being superficial, about being self-critical, but also about relying on the good in each other. I prepared some tasks with synonyms, ant...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
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LET IT SNOW - RUDOLPH�S COLOURS
This is a fun song about Rudolph I used with a video (littlestorybug) to revise colours. It also has a fill-in task with the basic Rudolph story below. I hope you get as hooked on the song as I have - it�s really cute!
Level: elementary
Age: 7-11
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