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Dutch Reach and Car-dooring Debate, - CAE reading exercise
An adapted reading from the Guardian made into the Part 1 of Reading and Use of English format. There is then a debate about the article. Answers are provided.
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 32
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Smile - by Spike Milligan
A short poem by Spike Milligan to cheer up the students. Good for vowel sounds and rhyming. The answers are on the back.
Level: elementary
Age: 9-100
Type:
Downloads: 20
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Football Vocabulary Check and Picture Matching Exercise
A short vocabulary exercise about football. Answer key included. I can�t stand the game myself, but it should keep some of the youngsters happy on a rainy day.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 46
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Nominalisation 1
A short explanation and then practice for the reading and use of English part 4 section of the CAE exam. Answers provided. Part 2 tomorrow.
Level: advanced
Age: 13-100
Type:
Downloads: 42
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Tricky Collocations
A worksheet on collocations that are common among native speakers but not so among ESL speakers. The answers are on the back. It contains some that never seem to collocate with anything else except just 1 or 2 words (such as piping hot) although most of them have slightly wider collocations. If anybody can think of any more that collocate to just 1...
Level: advanced
Age: 11-100
Type:
Downloads: 43
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Hotel Reservation Role Play
Cut out the cards and divide them into �hotel cards� and �guest cards.�
On a board make a mind map of the kinds of questions guests and receptionists would ask each other.
Give a guest card to one student and a hotel card to another.
The student with the hotel card is the receptionist and must answer a ringing phone.
The student with th...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 184
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Quotes about Education
A selection of quotes about education from some famous people. A small grammar guide is provided and answers are also given. After they finish and get them to choose one as the slogan for a new private school or education department and then have them debate why.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 71
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English and Spanish Accents - Video Worksheet
This is for adult groups and only in places where sex can be talked about in a light-hearted manner, as a couple of the jokes the comedian uses are on the spicy side. A short video of about 2 and a half minutes about English and Spanish accents, along with questions, and a very short vocabulary list, makes this into an entertaining listening compre...
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Type:
Downloads: 9
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Heteronym Reading Exercise
Heteronyms are words that are written the same but pronounced differently and have different meanings. Here is a little worksheet that I�ve used for a few years with my advanced groups to test their pronunciation. Proceed as you see fit but I always run through the vocabulary box at the top first and give both pronunciations. After that, they take ...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 53
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What does it mean? 9
Another quiz. Some cognates and false cognates thrown in for good measure as well as some common words in British English which aren�t really taught that often. There is a gapfill to consolidate and at the end there is a description game with words from quizzes 7, 8 and 9 to practise with. Answers at the back as usual as are the rules to play the...
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type:
Downloads: 30
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