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100 ways to praise a child
I got this text by e-mail from a friend, so I don�t know whose it is, but I hope nobody minds my turning it into a ws (page 1) and a lesson-plan(page 2). It�s such a beautiful text, full of positivity (to finish your school year maybe), and in the lesson plan you can find ideas on how to expand it into sth more complicated and even more serious(dis...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 185
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OUR FAVOURITE TOYS - original rhymes for kids� shows
This is a small collection of rhymes I wrote for my advanced preschoolers and their final performance (they performed them in a theatre for their parents and the rest of the audience), including a theme song from their coursebook at the end. The material includes costume&prop suggestions and a �choreography� for each line, and also the link for the...
Level: elementary
Age: 5-9
Type: Choose
Downloads: 22
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St. Patrick�s Day
Here are only some of my St. Patrick�s Day�s favourite activities - a crossword, a song, a text about Ireland and a story about a leprechaun and a greedy lady. The story is really educational and I�ve used it with all my levels - with preschoolers I added mime and sounds and a song afterwards, with intermediates I had a jumbled text to sort out, an...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 104
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INKHEART - follow-up summary and writing
This is another ws to do as follow-up for the movie Inkheart. Sts need to find mistakes in the movie summary and correct them, and then answer some personal questions in connection to the story. The story itself is wonderful and can be combined with all three beautiful books. Btw, what or who would you bring from the world of fiction to the real wo...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 24
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MORE ASSOCIATION GAMES- HAVE FUN!!!
More associations games coming your way - this time 2 pages of them, about books, food, movies, music... The rules are included for those of you who have never played this before. It�s a fun and incredibly useful way of expanding vocabulary, improving listening skills, and your students can make their own games as soon as they get the rules. It�s c...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 100
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safety tips - how safe is our world
I did this one with my FCE students. I got the text by e-mail from a friend and thought it provides good background for a lot of vocabulary work(on page 2) and a strong debate, since at times the safety tips in it seem sensible, and at times I thought �oh, come on, that�s paranoid�. It was an interesting debate, and I even got some spontaneous essa...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 15
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HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON - follow-up activities
This is a collection of texts about How to Train Your Dragon with suggested activities (to avoid too much fotocopying and engage sts to listen, read, speak and write. There is also a worksheet included with flexible writing activities for elementary and intermediate students. (You can also check out my ppt on the same topic, with a follow-up quiz, ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-17
Type: Choose
Downloads: 100
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FRIENDSHIP - role-play, Past Simple and projects
This is a worksheet with Past Simple and reading comprehension, along with several ideas about projects on friendship you can do with your students. The worksheet is based on one of the dialogues between George and his best friend Andy, written by F. Letras and used for this purpose with his kind permission. I hope you find it useful and inspiring.
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 174
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Christmas is coming - beautiful poetry and activities
This is my choice of absolutely beautiful Christmas poetry by the Ghignas, and activities based on it. I use it for all levels, it�s such lovely imagery, wonderful language, delightful rhythm, that your lessons will practically plan themselves. Christmas doesn�t always have to be the typical songs - you can expand and enrich with poetry like this.
Level: intermediate
Age: 5-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 72
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St. Patrick�s Day - advanced worksheet
This is an advanced ws based on a text about St. Patrick (which is also included on page 2). It contains 3 simple writing tasks, two about the given text and the third one is a creative writing task. Have fun!
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 60
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