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douglas

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Hi, I m an American expat living and teaching ESL in Germany and having a lot of fun doing it! br br I would appreciate a PM message if you notice errors on any of my materials.

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Simple Past and Present Practice
Here is a simple exercise I put together to help my students practice using the simple past and present tenses. Many of my students tend to have trouble deciding when to use do, don�t, did, didn�t, does, doesn�t or not use them at all. This exercise is designed to help them get more comfortable with the usage of those words with the above named te...
Level: elementary
Age: 11-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 152


 
Unusual New Year Traditions
Here is a simple worksheet to stimulate conversation in the classroom. There are a series of questions about unusual New Year Traditions throughout the world. The idea is to ask students the questions (or have them read them outload) and then let the students try to guess what the answers could be. Remember that the point of th exercise is for st...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 597


 
Asking and Giving Directions
I put this worksheet together to help me teach asking for and giving directions. The front page is basically just a vocabulary sheet and the second page has a map I made and about 20 questions to answer using the map and vocabulary from the front page. I hope it�s helpful, Douglas EDIT: For some reason the second page does not show in the ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 355


 
Simple Past Tense with Regular Verbs
With one of my beginner groups I decided to break-down teaching the past simple into regular verbs and then irregular verbs. This worksheet deals with the past simple using regular verbs only. Hope it�s helpful, Douglas PS-thanks to philipmartin for the wonderful clipart (free for educational use)
Level: elementary
Age: 9-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 522


 
"Continuing" Questions: forming questions in the continuous tenses
This is my next worksheet on forming questions. This worksheet provides an explanation, exercises and a key for forming questions in the past and present continuous (progressive) tenses. Hope you can use it, Douglas
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 136


 
Who�s Bringing the Presents?
Here�s a little reading exercise with some activities and a crossword puzzle I put together for Christmas. (Some of the text is taken directly from wikipedia) Merry Christmas! Douglas
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 131


 
Template for the game "Hangman"
I was surprised how useful and fun the game Hangman is for teaching alphabet, vocabulary and pronunciation so I made a template that my students can use to play Hangman without killing too many trees. If you print this and then laminate it, students can use markers (not permanent markers!) with this and play Hangman over and over. I know some pe...
Level: elementary
Age: 8-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 180


 
Pronoun Review
Here�s a worksheet I put together for my students. I use it as "closing" homework after teaching all the personal pronouns and possessive adjectives. It can also be used to review the different personal pronouns. I hope you can use it.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 489


 
Pillars of English-Auxiliary Verbs
Here�s a worksheet I designed to help my beginner adult groups practice the three "main" (auxiliary/helping) verbs. Students simply need to fill in the blanks with the appropriate present and past form of the verbs. Conjugation charts are provided at the top of the worksheet. Hope it�s helpful, Douglas
Level: elementary
Age: 8-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 59


 
What�s in my toolbox 1
My adult male students especially enjoyed this and they found the vocabulary useful. This is vocabulary you don�t usually learn in class, but it definately kept my students attention. The blank worksheet is another file.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 19

 

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