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Family Tree exercise
A small fill-in-the-gaps exercise for people learning family trees.
Level: elementary
Age: 5-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 22
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Incremental Comparatives
I made the name up as I could not find a proper name for them although there are few books where you find exercises for the comparative with this form included. Anyway, a little worksheet on this side of the comparative in English as it really needs to be looked at. A lot of my Spanish students struggle with this one. Hope it�s of some help to some...
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 49
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I don�t get it!
I used this with an adult group and it was a lot of fun explaining why the British would laugh at these terrible puns. It was also a good way to look at homophones, connected speech, idioms and phrasal verbs. It can be used with younger students if the last page is removed as that one is specifically for adults. A kind of answer key is at the back ...
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Type:
Downloads: 42
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Strengths and Weaknesses - Medical Appliances
Some adjectives that are often applied to technology. Using positive, neutral or negative adjectives, students need to choose which appliances they should buy from cheaper manufacturers to substitute their usual suppliers. A debate can be done at the end on the choices. If you have people that work in the medical industry, particularly in the sales...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type:
Downloads: 52
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Money Idioms
A short worksheet on idioms about money. Answers and quiz on origins included.
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 71
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Asbo Swan: Reading and Role-Play
This has a couple of uses. It can be a straight forward reading with a vocabulary word list linking exercise. It can also be a way of introducing a role-play that involves agreeing and disagreeing and the vocabulary used that can be practiced in a controlled manner. It can also be used to stimulate a debate on dangerous animals or animal welfare. T...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: article
Downloads: 28
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Personality Traits - Human Resources Exercise
A small exercise based on personality adjectives and placed in the context of a human resources department in a town hall. It can be used as a reading aloud exercise and you can also use it to get them to practise examples of the adjectives by saying then kinds of jobs that would be right or not, for those kinds of traits.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 122
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Third Conditional Practice
A short worksheet using a cue-response method for students to practice using the third conditional, or past unreal conditional as we sometimes call it. The answers are on the back page.
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type:
Downloads: 33
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Idioms Quiz: Part 2
Print, laminate and cut out the cards. Organise the class into two teams. Take one card at a time and read out the first question (or give to the students to read). Teams must choose A, B, or C, as the answer. One point is given for a correct answer. The origin of the idiom is then read out with an additional point given for a correct answer.
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 81
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Fossilised English Words and Idioms
A worksheet designed to look at old words and expression that are ticky to look up in the dictionary because their meanings or uses are obsolete although the expressions still remain. There is a quiz on the origins of the expressions at the end that can be done in teams. The answers are on the back page and below is a video that can be used to intr...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type:
Downloads: 30
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