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FAMILY TIES - TIC-TAC-TOE
An interesting game to stimulate students in the reviewing of family relationships and the possessive case. Students love it!
You can add many other itens to it!
Level: elementary
Age: 3-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 12
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Used to, Chris Daughtry (song activity)
I used this song last year with my intermediate students. Chris Daughtry was not the winner from one of the editions of American Idol, but I liked his voice and his style. So, as I had to review the structure �used to� recently taught, I decided to use a song and also work with reading comprehension and improve the students� vocabulary. To my surpr...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 8
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Silly Science Cartoon (Listening Activity)
If you want to talk about science in a funny but helpful way, use this old cartoon video and enjoy it with your students.
The link to the video is: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xr8nx_silly-science-cartoon_shortfilms
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 4
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Friends - "The One Where They All Turn Thirty" #2 (listening activity)
My students like "Friends" and what�s better to work with phrasal verbs and other structures from everyday English than the episodes of this sitcom? I showed the students only excerpts of the episode (check the script in the file) and it was perfect. it was the first time in my life I�ve seen students laughing during an evaluation! This is the sec...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 43
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AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH - ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS #2 (Listening Activity)
Last year (2007), we were discussing the effects of global warming in class and we had already read many articles, listened to an interview with Tom Flannery and guess what? I�ve discovered that teenagers are not worried with the environment and the consequences of global warming upon it. So, I took two excerpts from the scene "The solutions are in...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 44
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Idioms with numbers
One of the forms of measuring the importance of a subject in a culture is to check the role it plays in the production of new vocabulary items. This is what happens to NUMBERS. They have always been a valuable cultural asset in the English language � IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS departing from numbers are being used in contexts apart from the one of the m...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 21
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Past stories - Past Perfect
A dialog exercise to practice the use of the Past Perfect Tense in alignment with other past tenses in a story in the past. It practices the use of subordination in the past.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6
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Environmental Concerns - (Reading Activity)
I�ve prepared this reading comprehension activity based on the article "The Nightmare Scenario", an interview with Tom Flannery (Speak Up magazine, nr 242). I hope you�ll enjoy it!
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 3
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FRIENDS - "The One Where They All Turn Thirty" #1 (listening activity)
My students like "Friends" and what�s better to work with phrasal verbs and other structures from everyday English than the episodes of this sitcom? I showed the students only excerpts of the episode (check the script in the file) and it was perfect. it was the first time in my life I�ve seen students laughing during an evaluation! This is the fir...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 48
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How to use a dictionary
I�ve organized this handout because I was getting sick and tired of seeing my students (including intermediate and advanced ones) having trouble when they had to use a dictionary and a growing number of them appealing to online translators, turning their writing productions into real and authentic samples of the "samba of the crazy student". I inte...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 125
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