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Food scares are not going away, warn experts
This is a reading comprehension sourced from a Hong Kong newspaper and is designed for secondary school students. The grammar focus is on tenses/voices (15 marks) and articles (21 marks). Based on a current affair food scares, it is aimed at familiarising students with the relevant vocabulary items on the topic, as well as raising students?conce...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 22
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Defining and non-defining clauses
Worksheet on Relative clauses: defining and non-defining clauses.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 166
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Simple Past tense in story context (a creative story)
A creative story: In a future incident, a space police catches thieves with his wits and gets reward.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 138
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Rewrite sentences in participle phrases
Rewrite sentences using participle phrases: adjective phrases starting with present participle or past participle depending on the voices of the main verbs
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 111
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Tenses (37 marks): Addicted to heroin at 14, counsellor knows the pain. (Answer keys on p3)
Excerpt: For eight years, he took heroin every day. In an effort to stop, he and other addicted friends tried locking themselves in a flat. They bound the door with iron chains and threw the key out the window. But the next day they forced their way out and got high. // I always remember, when I was just 16 and my dad first came to the correctional...
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 50
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Gerunds and Infinitives
Fill in the blanks.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 174
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The greatest gift of all: the present, written by a girl aged 10. Reuploaded with short activity added.
It is an imaginative and colourful story with great character transformation. Cool story! The end was refreshing and peculiar! Like the endings to those movies that leave you wondering what REALLY happened. Weird yet wonderful, congrats and great writing! A short task is added, suitable for HKDSE School-based assessment (SBA) print-fiction (a sho...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: Choose
Downloads: 66
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Email writing (Giving suggestions)
A farmer is asking for suggestions to solve a few problems he is facing in his farm. The student who is going to write an email to the farmer is Jack. Actually, this is a follow up task as some suggestions is already given to the farmer previously.
Level: elementary
Age: 9-14
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 13
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For the pirate, family was as good as gold (With short tasks added at the end)
A story with an inspiring ending! Suitable for HKDSE School-based assessment (SBA) print-fiction (a short fiction for practice). Questions asked: 1. What is the most valuable thing in your life? 2. Do you want to be one of the sons (or daughters) of Redbeard? Give reasons to support your answer.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 44
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Connectives (15 marks): A true love story - Proposal over a bowl of soup (Answer keys on p2)
Excerpt: The first time I saw Alex, I thought he wasnt really my cup of tea, Cecilia said. He was chubby, and was wearing flared jeans and very old-fashioned sneakers. Alex, however, was instantly attracted to Cecilia�K.// They had a big fight that was sparked by Alex s decision to spend all his savings on a diamond ring for her�K.// Everyone thou...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 52
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