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Reading skills: eliciting the meaning of unknown words
Questions to accompany text about water and sanitation in Angola, Africa.
The goal of the exercise is to build students� confidence when faced with unknown or complicated words.
The activities on the sheet guide pupils through a structured reading of the text and encourage them to consider the possible meanings of new words. They are then asked t...
Level: advanced
Age: 13-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 38
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VIDEO comprehension - a new eye operation to cure a form of blindness
A video listening exercise about an exciting new medical procedure. Video is from Sky news on Youtube - the link is on the worksheet.
Exercises are: general comprehension, number comprehension, key vocabulary, free discussion.
Answers provided on second page of document.
Level: advanced
Age: 15-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 18
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IVE pronunciation in English
A handout showing the two main ways of pronouncing the letter combination IVE in English - as in �give� or as in �five.�
Special consideration is given to the problem of live/live/alive/lives.
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100
Type:
Downloads: 12
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Questions in songs
2 songs which include questions. Learners listen to the songs and in exercise 1, correct the errors; in exercise 2, write in the question forms.
You can find the songs on YouTube.
Answers included on p3.
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 51
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New Year�s resolutions / Future plans: structures
A sheet to go over the different structures we can use to talk about the future and New Year�s resolutions or advice. Works best as the basis of a lesson centred around oral activities.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 22
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Vocabulary exercise based on article "Victorian coffin prank"
An article containing some lesser-known English words and vocabulary exercises to help learners to deal with that vocabulary.
Level: advanced
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 27
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Vocabulary for quantities, statistics and trends
3 vocabulary exercises covering vocab to do with quantities, statistics and trends.
2 graphs to describe using the new language.
2 listening exercises (one audio, one video - links provided) to practise comprehension of numbers and statistics.
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
Type:
Downloads: 13
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Discussion prompts: scenarios and objects
Various scenarios and a list of objects/conditions.
Pupils could simply use the scenario cards to discuss what they would do and why; how they got into the situation; what could go wrong; what advice they would give to someone in this situation.
Pupils could pick a scenario card and one �object� card and try to explain how they would cope in this...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 24
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Use of �s for possessive and for "is"
Very simple explanation of use of �s for possession (singular only) and for "is". (Does not cover �s for has.) A first introduction to this topic for young pupils. Exercise requires pupils to determine whether the sentence uses �s to mean "is" or as a possessive.
Level: elementary
Age: 7-12
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 22
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Video and comprehension questions: Republican presidential candidates discuss Syrian refugees
A video from CNN (link at bottom of second page of worksheet) about Republican candidates in the 2015/2016 presidential race debating the arrival of Syrian refugees after the November 13th terror attacks in Paris.
The questions on the worksheet cover comprehension questions, then offer points for a wider discussion of the issue.
Level: advanced
Age: 15-100
Type: others
Downloads: 22
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