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Phrasal verbs: Friends
Phrasal verbs activity working with definitions. Teacher�s notes are on page 3.
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Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 4
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Reading: France 24 website article about French and American views about the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case
A gap-fill article from the France 24 website about American and French views in the wake of the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case. I used this as a lead in to a discussion about sexual harassment and cultural differences.
This could be used in tandem with the video activity about his accuser: http://www.eslprintables.com/printable.asp?id=574786#thetop
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Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 12
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Reading: Tales of woe from the roaming professionals (BBC Business)
An abridged 3-page article about working abroad. There are pre-reading, while reading and after reading activities. The article starts on page 2.
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Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 3
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Suffixes activity
An activity to practice word building with the suffixes: ty, ity, ence, ance, ness, th, ion, ment, ism.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 27
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Paraphrasing: worksheet and game
Page 1 is a worksheet to introduce paraphrasing structures.
Page 2 has a dominoes game for students to practice the phrases.
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Elise
Level: elementary
Age: 7-10
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 16
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Prefixes game
To practice word formation- prefixes. I have uploaded a powerpoint that explains these in detail (http://www.eslprintables.com/powerpoint.asp?id=49327#thetop).
Instructions: By adding the appropriate prefix to the words in the box create a new word. For example, if the word is �read� and in the brackets under is written �(again)�, you need to wr...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 67
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Listening: Clip from Friends- gap fill
A short listening activity with the following clip from Friends: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_ESeEZD_OY
The clip is only 2:30 minutes, so I used this as a warmer for my class, before talking about how friends support us and then going on to talk about affixes, with the word "friend" as a starter.
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Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: others
Downloads: 18
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How to avoid apostrophe catastrophes!
The worksheet uses photos (page 2) of real life mistakes using apostrophes. Students work through the exercises to match the mistakes with the apostrophe rules, thereby discovering some of the rules for apostrophe usage.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 3
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Verbs of feeling
Students fill in the vowels in the verbs of feelings, before matching to the definitions.
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Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 32
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Take Your Mama Out- Scissor Sisters
The pre-listening tasks are:
- completing a table with the infinitive/present/continuous/past simple/past participles
- countable and uncountable nouns- writing plural forms where relevant
- future- will and be going to- usage and contracted form
- linked forms in spoken English: going to/ought to/going to
- home/house and man/boy- difference ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 2
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Idioms with by
A powerpoint to practice the authentic use of idioms with by:
By choice, by heart, by mistake, by ear, by name, by far, by sight, by chance.
The contexts are newspaper and website headlines.
Key:
1. heart
2. name
3. mistake
4. sight
5. chance
6. ear
7. far
8. choice
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Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 22
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Past expressing present or future time
A powerpoint slide outlining the use of past tenses with a present or future meaning for:
I wish/If only
Second conditional
As if/as though
It�s (about/high) time
There are some practice activities at the end.
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Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 18
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Relative clauses
A power point presentation about relative clauses, using Vincent van Gogh as the concept. This was created for an upper intermediate class, so some of the language might need to be re-graded for lower levels.
The presentation includes defining and non-defining relative clauses.
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Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 28
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Word formation
This presentation focusses on prefixes and suffixes in general, before looking specifically at forming nouns from verbs and adjectives.
I have included my notes on the presentation.
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Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 39
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Word formation- prefixes
A powerpoint including an intrdouction to prefixes and suffixes before focussing on prefixes.
Here is a game to practice these prefixes: http://www.eslprintables.com/printable.asp?id=571838#thetop
I created a handout as well, based on the advice here: http://www.onestopenglish.com/support/ask-...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 50
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Adverbs
An overview of adverbs including:
Adverbs modifying advectives, past participles etc.
Adverb formation
Spelling rules
Adverbs and adjectives with same form
Adjectives with an adverb form
Adverbs with two forms
Adverb form in informal English.
Goes well with this game: http://www.onestopeng...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 34
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Reported speech
A presentation about reported speech including:
- introductory verbs
- tense changes and no tense changes
- pronoun changes
- changes to place and time
- modal verbs
- reported questions
- indirect commands & requests & suggestions
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Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 9
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Adjectives and adverbs: gradable & ungradable
A powerpoint showing gradabale and ungradable adjectives and the adverbs of degree and intensity that can be combined with them.
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Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 30
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Vocab: Famous crimes
A powerpoint to elicit the famous crimes. Each example gives the crime, verb and criminal.
I teach in Brazil so have given three local examples that would need to be substituted. Or, if anyone knows an international example for: drug trafficking, mugging and rape, let me know and I�ll edit it.
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Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 13
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Expressing purpose
Powerpoint outlining structures to use when talking about Someone`s purpose, An object�s purpose, Judgements, More than sufficient/necessary, Sufficient (or not).
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Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 10
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