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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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Are you a scaredy cat?
A personality test about how daring you are using the present perfect. A suggested additional activity is to ask the student to write their own personality test about a different charactersitic (e.g. studious etc) using the present perfect.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6


 
A day out
This is a basic sheet to pracise the past simple. The students have to read the story, order the pictures (you can use this at the end to retell the story orally) and answer the grammar questions.
Level: elementary
Age: 10-14
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 13


 
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


 
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


 
Action matching sheet
A simple sheet to match actions with their words.
Level: elementary
Age: 4-7
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7


 
Stardust
This is a very basic worksheet that I used to guide a discussion on the film stardust. You can present information on the characters beforehand or just ask them to think about it and write it up after the movie (the first part). We used the questions as a simple guide to discussion. The kids got very into the discussion. (I have a power point pr...
Level: elementary
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 8


 
Spiders
This is the second of my horror story worksheets. The story is an urban legend which you can find many versions of on the net. This has been adapted specially for my pre-intermediate class. It can be used for reading for pleasure or maybe by giving pairs of students a particular story and then putting one student from each pair or group in a big...
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 7


 
Superstitions
A worksheet which can be used as a listening (see text on page 3) or a reading, using saidtext, or as an investigation exercise. Lets the students find out more about superstitions in England. Can be adjusted to level by getting rid off the �fill-in-the-gap� exercise and leaving simply a gap to be filled in.
Level: elementary
Age: 12-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 36


 
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


 
Weather dominoes
This is a quick and easy version of dominoes where the kids have to match the words and pictures to play. I made it for my four year olds. Enjoy
Level: elementary
Age: 4-10
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 10

 

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