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How a hot cuppa influences decisions
Tea culture and the effects of tea drinking and how it can influence you unknowingly! An authentic text (Daily Mail) with a grammar focus - first conditional.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 58
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Mr Busy is back, but not alone, at a late summer barbecue
Another episode in Mr Busy�s life which he now shares with Lizzy. The story picks up old threads from the other stories while concentrating on finding the correct verb forms from the context. A gap fill exercise, distinguishing between the the simple and continuous forms of the present perfect and the present tense, relying on signal words and cont...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 90
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Fishy feet!
An authentic text about an exfoliation method which uses 150 fish. A new spa offering the teatment is to be opened in London. Language exercises have been added concentrating on lexical elements.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: article
Downloads: 39
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Conversation cards (4) focusing on phrasal verbs with GET_1
Another set of cards with questions using phrasal verbs (with get). Each student is given a (laminated)card. They mingle and ask each other their questions until they have spoken to everyone.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 247
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Mr Busy�s daily routine EASIER VERSION (present tense)
An easier version of my other Mr Busy routine sheet. The verbs have been given. The students just have to fill in the gaps with the correct form of the verb. Suitable for adult beginners as a recap on the present tense.
Level: elementary
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 184
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Mamo cards: phrases
I�ve been reading a book of short stories by Maeve Binchy (The Return Journey) with four of my groups this term and we�ve been looking at some of the phrases used(all in common use). Here is a selection of them (out of context) in question form for a communicative way of using them. I thought they might be useful even though you haven�t necessarily...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 24
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Giraffe Hotel
A newspaper text (Daily Mail) about the world�s first giraffe hotel and the dream of two young Kenyan children. It explains a little about the conservation work done with Rothschild giraffes. I�ve added converstion questions, discussion questions and some language exercises on the text. An answer key has been added
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 120
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Britain�s Piers
Seaside piers - quintessentially English - relics from the Victorian era - as much a part of an English seaside holiday as deck chairs and buckets and spades. A text giving information about their uses in former times and their, sometimes, derelict state today. Language exercises have been added and questions to encourage discussion.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 66
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A photographer�s best shot!
A short newspaper text about an encounter in the Antarctic with an incredible penguin 50 years ago - and it was caught on film! An easy text for elementary (+) students with added language exercises and answer key.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 70
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Mamo cards: Garden tips
I found these super gardening tips in the Daily Mail this week and put them straight on cards and laminated them. I used them as a warmer for all my adult groups (10 of them) and they went down really well -every time! Task:- Everyone gets a card with a tip and they have to mingle and exchange tips and then move on to collect as many tips as possi...
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 57
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