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Could video games help treat depression?
News article about video games and the ways in which they could help those with mental health conditions. Questions are true/false/not in text, vocabulary and synonyms, and open conversation questions.
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
Type: article
Downloads: 63
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Seasonal role plays (Christmas/winter/New Year)
5 seasonal role-plays. Can be done as a carousel or in groups.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 74
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Reading comprehension: park ranger in the Grand Canyon National Park
Article from the Washington Post kids� section about a park ranger in the Grand Canyon National Park.
Exercises include: pre-reading discussion, reading for gist, vocabulary match, reading for detail, inference questions, creative writing tasks (extension).
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 66
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All conditionals: overview exercises
A gap-fill exercise testing all four conditionals (0, 1st, 2nd, 3rd), followed by an extension exercise on logical connectors and sentence reformulation.
Answers provided on p3.
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 47
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Queen�s Christmas Message 2016 (Queen�s speech) - video and exercises
Video of the Queen�s speech on Christmas Day 2016 (link to video on p3 of worksheet).
Pre-video exercise, then general comprehension, then specific listening comprehension tasks.
Transcript on p3 of printable.
Good for classes learning about the film The King�s Speech, royalty in the UK, Christmas traditions or RP English.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 43
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How old is ...? Pairwork information gap activity (Speaking)
Two sheets: sheet A and sheet B. Pupils must take it in turns to ask questions and give answers about the ages of different people and buildings. Also drills he/she/it.
NB: all ages correct in February 2013! The sheet will need to be updated each year if you�re a stickler for accuracy!
Level: elementary
Age: 5-14
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 8
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Reading comprehension - 2 stories about NZ animals
2 articles from the BBC. One is about people replacing sheep at rodeos; the other is about the kokako, a bird in New Zealand thought to possibly be extinct.
Exercises cover "wh" questions, vocabulary, gist reading, reformulation, and creative writing tasks.
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 46
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will/would clauses: how to talk about predictions and hypotheses
A detailed overview of how to use modal verbs, future and conditional to add nuance to your predictions and examples.
For advanced learners. I used this to prepare ACT and SAT essays.
Suggested answers are provided on p2.
Level: advanced
Age: 13-100
Type: grammar-guide
Downloads: 29
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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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Present perfect tenses - News article
News article containing examples of present perfect, past simple, present perfect progressive and present simple. A great way to consolidate these tenses after having taught them, and a good example of how they are used in real life.
Answers included.
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 64
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