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PIRATE FUN
This is a worksheet I made for my students to do before or during their summer holidays. It�s just for fun and contains two vocabulary tasks and riddles about pirates and their equipment. (There�s also a matching OE with an additional wordseach.) I just love pirate stories, so this is only part of my material about the topic. I hope you have fun wi...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 54
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LIMERICKS, part 2 - synonyms practice through fun poetry
I�m having fun with limericks again, this time with Frank�s help. I wanted my students to practise synonyms, but wanted to give it a fun twist, so here it goes. I hope you enjoy this.
Level: advanced
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 188
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MY HALLOWEEN COLLECTION NO.2 - b&w worksheets
This is part 2 of my Halloween collection. It contains black and white worksheets for younger and older intermediate and advanced sts. I hope you find them useful.
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 183
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ADVANCED VOCABULARY TREASURY - word games
This is a collection of word cards with advanced nouns and adjectives, with detailed instructions for the games and work you can do with them to improve your sts� vocabulary, word formation, writing and speaking. I�ve been using these cards with my FCE and CAE groups for several years, and they are very effective. The good thing about them is that...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 332
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project 1 - English around the world
This is part 1 of 3 projects I�m posting today. This one deals with countries and languages around the world, and where and for what purpose English is used. It�s a combination of language, geography and basic culture. It includes several pages of lesson ideas, with speaking, writing, listening, etc. You can do each project separately, or all toget...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 384
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Kids on everyday life - how kids interprete everyday situations
This is part 2 inspired by yetigumboots� post about the Middle Wife - I�ve found some anecdotes on how kids interprete everyday life situations based on lack of linguistic or cultural knowledge. It�s funny, and I�ve truned it into speaking and writing activities for my English lessons with kids. I hope you enjoy them.
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 49
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LITTLE TEDDY�S BEDTIME RHYME - story in rhyme
This is a story in rhyme I wrote for my preschool advanced group, inspired by my son who never wants to go to bed. The whole lesson plan is included - you can read it for kids, role play it with them, use it for a show, do it in steps, etc. My sts loved it, they learned to finish my lines and to tell the key rhyme by themselves and we had lots of l...
Level: elementary
Age: 7-10
Type: Choose
Downloads: 51
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SILLY ENGLISH & MOVIE QUOTES - error correction
These are 2 wss which may be used together as one or as 2 separate wss. One deals with problems with wrong translations of rules and signs in hotels etc., and the other one deals with movie quotes with hidden mistakes. Both wss require error corrections, which turns sts into teachers, which is always fun for them. Key is included. (These wss can be...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 36
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mothers and families - funny motivational texts and wss
Inspired by Victoria�s posts in the cafe (funny texts about mothers) and Fulghum�s All I Need to Know About Life I Learned in Kindergarten, I have prepared a project with introductory, main and final activities with wss for 4 different texts(wss practise vocabulary, modals, synonyms, word formation, and activities are speaking and writing for group...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 82
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READ AND EXPAND - advanced text work
This is a collection of 8 lesson plans for 8 different texts (some of which I can thank some ESL members for), which I am planning to use with my advanced (even some intermediate) groups. They require reading, writing, vocabulary expansion, etc., and contain texts, tasks, follow-up essay or discussion ideas and game ideas. They are not typical text...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 316
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PIRATE�S TREASURE - fun summer story with pre, during and post-reading fun
This ppt is based on the story Pirate�s Treasure(the link is included because the online version also contains audio files). It�s a fun short story for children, and the ppt has an activity to do before reading, lots of discussion stuff to do while reading and fun challenges for after reading. I hop...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-14
Downloads: 126
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SILLY ENGLISH - how easy is it to translate things?
This is a ppt I prepared for my advanced teenagers who got just a little bit overly self-confident as far as their knowledge was concerned. It is based on an e-mail I got with ridiculously translated hotel and other signs around the world. It�s really funny, but the task for the sts is to say it in ...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 82
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FCE PRACTICE - use of English, speaking, writing
I prepared this FCE practice for my groups (highschoolers), using exercises from free web-sites, course books and experience. It concentrates on word formation (use of English), speaking and writing practice, and I use it with my advanced groups as practice, and then give them similar exercises as t...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 135
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children�s play - THE UGLY DUCKLING
This is the children�s play I wrote on the basis of the original story. It�s made to suit the needs of my groups(we did a play and a puppet show with it), so I added a few characters (couldn�t load their pics, sorry, too large a format. They absolutely loved it, and so did the parents, especially be...
Level: elementary
Age: 7-10
Downloads: 157
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magic spells - reading and writing through magic
I created this ppt for a group game where I had mixed teams of preschool and teenage kids. It�s a very simple game of reading and then writing magic spells, using pictures and text. It�s easily printable (I used the printed version), but it�s useful because it makes kids use opposite adjectives (tur...
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-17
Downloads: 15
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PEOPLE IN THE PRESENT - present tenses and describing people
This ppt is prepared for adults (but can be used with teenagers as well) who still have problems with describing people and deciding when to use the Present Simple or when to use the Present Continuous. It drills the difference with practical picture descriptions, also expanding their vocabulary ban...
Level: elementary
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 66
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JUDGING BY APPEARANCES - educational and motivational
This ppt (and a corresponding ws) were inspired by Lucia13 who posted this wonderful text in our ESL cafe not long ago. Since I�m covering describing people with my teenagers, this is just the perfect icing on the cake to teach them to see past the surface. It�s designed for speaking and reading. I ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 221
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advanced Halloween workshop
This is a ppt I prepared for my intermediate and advanced teenage students. They love writing Halloween stories, but we usually do some brainstorming before the actual writing, so this ppt also has some vocab-expansion activities in the beginning. I had problems adding sounds, so feel free to add yo...
Level: advanced
Age: 11-17
Downloads: 45
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Past Simple - practical revision
This is a very simple ppt to revise the past simple tense. I used it with my kids and adults, and it was fun because we played it as games(each slide was one game) in 2 teams, and only made notes afterwards. I even used some exercises in a test later on.
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Downloads: 17
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The 5th Element - characters fill-in quiz
This is a ppt about the main characters from the movie The 5th Element. It contains a pic and a fill-in text about all the main characters from this fun science-fiction film. I used info and texts from www.imdb.com. I�m working on it as an additional activity with my sts (levels elementary-intermedi...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-12
Downloads: 3
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I WON�T GIVE UP - JASON MRAZ
I just couldn�t resist this song, the video and the melody. The tasks are rather simple (spelling, opposites and ordering by numbers), but the song is lovely and the video has a nice message. I�m planning to do it on Valentine�s Day, although the message is universal. I hope you like it.
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-100
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SHERLOCK HOLMES
My students love Sherlock Holmes, and this is part of our project - reading stories about him, watching videos and working with the language. This is hopefully only the first of my OEs on the topic - contains a word formation task and a synonyms task connected to a video. Hope you find it useful!
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
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SHERLOCK HOLMES 2
This is the second part of my Holmes OE series. This one contains two tasks - the first one is a multiple choice task with info on Holmes from Wikipedia, and the second one is an open cloze based on listening to the words from the given TV-series trailer. I hope it�s useful to you.
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
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READ & LEARN - SYNONYMS & WORD FORMATION
This is a vocabulary task based on a poem by F. Letras (with his kind permission) and it contains synonyms, word formation and reading comprehension. I hope you find it useful. The poem has an interesting ending, so you might even use it (for Halloween maybe?) as an open-ended poem with your stodent...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
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BORN FREE - OUR PLANET
I made this OE inspired by the video for Born Free, but the basis for the exercise is actually environmental care, enjoying the nature and preserving it, so it revolves around nature vocabulary. It contains two videos and several tasks - vocabulary, spelling, memory practice, fill-in... well, you�ll...
Level: advanced
Age: 11-100
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PREPOSITIONS in idioms and phrases
This is my third OE. The graphics are simple, but it will be useful for my FCE students to revise some idioms and phrasal verbs. The tasks are fill-ins. I hope you find it helpful.
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
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