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HollyHirst
Holly Hirst
United Kingdom



I am an Englishwoman working in Russia. I teach mostly childrens classes but have a few adult classes in among! Previously, I worked in Spain.

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Visiting a Tourist Town
This is a series of worksheets which take students through going on a holiday including vocabulary on hotels and reservations, holiday activities and travel. It has some sample dialogues to complete, matching exercises and basic discussion starters for lower level students.
Level: elementary
Age: 16-100
Type:
Downloads: 20


 
Summarising verbs
This is a speaking activity to practise using summarising verbs. The sheets should be cut out and then the students should match the summarising verb to the correct example. They should then use the verbs to report what was said. Suggested answers are included on the second sheet. Hope this is helpful.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6


 
Earthquakes 1: The San Francisco earthquake
This is the first part of the earthquakes sheet - sorry it�s a bit dull - I couldn�t cut the photos size down to put it on the sheet. You could easily find photos on google though! There is a second part (earthquakes 2: How to survive an earthquake)which gives more general instructions as to how to survive an earthquake. Hope you enjoy and fin...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 6


 
Conditionals practice game
This is a conversation game to get the kids talking about conditional. You have the first and the last line of a story and they have to fill in the story using only conditionals. E.g. I I hadn�t gone to the ball, I would have met the prince. If I hadn�t met the prince, I wouldn�t have married him. If I hadn�t married him, I wouldn�t have gone o...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 89


 
Mothering Sunday
This is a worksheet about the UK holiday of Mother�s day (this year, 2010, 14th of March, I believe!) and includes some beginning exercises and a listening activity. The answers for the fill the gaps are (in this order)Christian, Easter, Jesus�, 40, 40, Jesus. Britain, houses, half, week, day, year. I hope you enjoy using it!
Level: elementary
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 11


 
Terrifying creature profiles
This is a worksheet using Halloween creatures to get the children reading and writing small texts in the third person. They practise talking about hobbies and preferences. It can be used at Halloween or at the start of the term as an interesting take on the typical introductions lesson.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-12
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 23


 
Cry - Rihanna
This is a simple exercise on the Rihanna song �Cry� - a specific request from my students. I�ve just done a simple gap fill, focusing mainly on verbs and some other words that I�m working on with my students, and a true and false exercise. Hope it�s useful
Level: elementary
Age: 11-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6


 
Ghost stories
This is a reading exercise. I normally give different readings to different kids and they can then ask each other questions to get the answers. I�ve also done it as a �running reading� with the text put up in various places. I often start the lesson by cutting the stories in half and having the kids find the person with the other half of their...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 27


 
Not Only Dogs Can Lick!
Another in my series of horror stories. It�s adapted from an internet text about an urban legend to a pre-intermediate level.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 16


 
The Murderer in the Back Seat
Another in my series of horror stories adapted for a pre-intermediate class.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 24

 

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