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Conditional form in songs
3 songs which use the conditional:
If I had a million dollars
If I had a hammer
If I didn�t love you
Gap-fill activities increase in difficulty from song 1 to song 3.
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-100
Type:
Downloads: 15
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Reading comprehension: park ranger in the Grand Canyon National Park
Article from the Washington Post kids� section about a park ranger in the Grand Canyon National Park.
Exercises include: pre-reading discussion, reading for gist, vocabulary match, reading for detail, inference questions, creative writing tasks (extension).
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 66
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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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Suggestions and advice: role plays
8 role plays to practise the structures for giving suggestions and advice.
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 63
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Morning routine video: Wallace and Gromit
A short video clip (under 2 minutes) from the Wallace and Gromit animation "The Wrong Trousers" with exercises using morning routine vocabulary.
Grammar point: before and after.
Level: elementary
Age: 6-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 73
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every- some- no- any- words overview and exercises
An overview of how the prefixes EVERY, SOME, NO and ANY combine with ONE/BODY, THING and WHERE.
Each prefix is discussed separately, with a guided gap-fill exercise each time.
The final exercise asks students to do a mixed gap-fill as a plenary/conclusion activity.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type:
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will/would clauses: how to talk about predictions and hypotheses
A detailed overview of how to use modal verbs, future and conditional to add nuance to your predictions and examples.
For advanced learners. I used this to prepare ACT and SAT essays.
Suggested answers are provided on p2.
Level: advanced
Age: 13-100
Type: grammar-guide
Downloads: 29
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Children read to dogs to improve literacy (article and questions)
Article from BBC news accompanied by vocabulary and comprehension exercises. The article is not too difficult, even for younger teenagers.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 63
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Mixed grammar exercises: SAT preparation
An article from the LA times adapted into a training exercise for non-native pupils preparing for SATs or similar high-level exams. Exercises cover prepositions, tenses, adjectives/adverbs and identifying sentence errors. Answers can be found by comparing pupils� choices with the source text (also given in the document).
Level: advanced
Age: 15-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 36
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Reading comprehension: China bans celebrities� children from appearing on reality TV shows
Article from BBC News about a ban on Chinese celebrities� children appearing on TV.
Pre-reading discussion questions and vocabulary, post-reading true/false/not in text questions, vocabulary matching and gap-fill, role-plays based on the text.
Answers are provided.
This would fit into a unit on TV, media, press freedom, celebrities and fame, rig...
Level: advanced
Age: 11-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 67
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