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Staying with a host family (homestay) - interactions practice
Prompt questions for students to practise the kind of interactions they might have when staying with a host family in an English-speaking country. A great way to prepare your learners before an exchange or a summer course in an English-speaking country.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 51
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Video and comprehension questions: Republican presidential candidates discuss Syrian refugees
A video from CNN (link at bottom of second page of worksheet) about Republican candidates in the 2015/2016 presidential race debating the arrival of Syrian refugees after the November 13th terror attacks in Paris.
The questions on the worksheet cover comprehension questions, then offer points for a wider discussion of the issue.
Level: advanced
Age: 15-100
Type: others
Downloads: 22
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SAT-style critical reading / reading comprehension / identifying sentence errors on a text about an 1895 archaeological expedition
Text from Project Gutenberg. Exercises following SAT model: 1) identifying sentence errors and 2) critical reading. Answers also provided.
Level: advanced
Age: 15-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 31
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Time adverbs: since, for, still, already, yet - news article and questions, grammar exercises
A short news article from the BBC followed by vocabulary and simple comprehension questions, and a role play.
Grammar guide based on the news article - it deals with present perfect + since/for, preterite + in/on/at, and present or present perfect + already/still/yet.
Question stimuli to encourage pupils to use these time structures in their own ...
Level: advanced
Age: 13-100
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 113
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Food delivered by parachute and by drone
2 articles - one about cheese sandwiches delivered by parachute (Jafflechutes) and one about pizza delivered by drones. Exercises revolve around discussion and comprehension of key points in each article. Grammar focus is on phrasal verbs (to wait for, to look into etc.).
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: article
Downloads: 39
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Questions in songs
2 songs which include questions. Learners listen to the songs and in exercise 1, correct the errors; in exercise 2, write in the question forms.
You can find the songs on YouTube.
Answers included on p3.
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 51
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Christmas cracker jokes
A list of groan-worthy jokes such as the ones found in Christmas crackers in the UK. Page 1 just has the jokes in a list; page 2 is in a table so you can cut up the jokes and ask learners to match up the jokes and their punchlines.
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 44
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Homophones: easy
Some of the easiest and most common homophones in English (see/sea, write/right etc.)
Exercises cover vocabulary, writing, dictation and open-ended expression.
Lesson plan on p3.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 9
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Reading skills: eliciting the meaning of unknown words
Questions to accompany text about water and sanitation in Angola, Africa.
The goal of the exercise is to build students� confidence when faced with unknown or complicated words.
The activities on the sheet guide pupils through a structured reading of the text and encourage them to consider the possible meanings of new words. They are then asked t...
Level: advanced
Age: 13-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 38
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because, so, but, however, although: reformulation and logical connectors
Reformulation exercises covering:
because / so
because of, due to
but / however / although
despite, in spite of
Text comprehension based on WWF text about deforestation
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 73
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