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Was, were and did in communicative questions
My students were often uncertain about when to use did or was/were in past simple questions, so I put together this material to help them not only to understand when each one is used, but also to use the questions to meaningfully communicate with their classmates. My students are 6th graders, but the questions can be edited to cater for different s...
Level: elementary
Age: 10-14
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I have/ I don�t have worksheet
This is a worksheet I prepared for my young students to practice saying what they have and what they don�t have. It can also be used to interview classmates by asking "Do you have a _______?"
Level: elementary
Age: 7-9
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 3
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Osama Bin Laden Killed
Reading activity, with three tasks, based on an ABC news article. Answers and task instructions on the 2nd page.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 26
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Pronoun Chart
This chart can be used to review personal (subject and object) pronouns, possessive pronouns, reflexive pronouns and possessive adjectives, which are not really pronouns but I added them to the chart to contrast them with possessive pronouns. Each column of the chart presents one of the pronouns separately (its use, examples and a set of exercises...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type:
Downloads: 14
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Numbers in the world cup
To raise students� curiosity to read the text, a fill-in-the-blanks exercised is suggested, in which they will test their general knowledge concerning the history of tournament, as well as this year�s championship in South Africa and the next edition of the World Cup, which will happen in Brazil in 2014. Only after doing that will they read the tex...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 10
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Rehab by Amy Winehouse
Students are supposed to pick out the "alien" word in each verse of the song and unscramble it so as to turn it into a "real word". To make it more challenging, the alien words are not marked in any way, but to make it less frustrating, the first letter of each alien word was kept in its right place.
There is no need for an answer sheet because y...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7
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Father and Son by Cat Stevens
This song is nice to use as a warm up for discussions about family relationships. The vocabulary is not hard, and its pace is slow enough for students to follow easily. I made the activity so as to also raise awareness about parts of speech.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 26
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Dumb ways to die
This is a material based on a Melbourne Metro Safety Campaign, which received several awards. The song is funny, catchy, and cute. I made the lyrics into a vocabulary/reading comprehension type of activity. I hope your students like it as much as mine did.
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 16
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Just say No
This is a reading activity based on an essay published at www.thisibelieve.org, which is a great source of essays on many different topics. In this particular one,the author talks about choosing to say no to some of our modern world "must-haves": a car, a cell phone, pierced ears...there are two pre-reading activities, which include a discussion an...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 31
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Graphology: can your handwriting reveal your personality?
I made this reading activity to go with lesson 1B from the textbook New English File Upper Intermediate, but it can be used on its own. It is fun to collect students� samples of handwriting and then give each student a sample to be analyzed according to the info on the text.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 67
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Christmas symbols
This is an activity to teach or practice Christmas vocabulary (Christmas symbols).
I use it as a game in groups: for each round, we roll the dice and that is the number of points each word will be worth. If, say, they roll the dice and get a seven, they will get seven points if the know the word, m...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Downloads: 18
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