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Making suggestions and giving advice: structures
Writing frame modelling the structures used for making suggestions and giving advice.
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100
Type: grammar-guide
Downloads: 15
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Use of �s for possessive and for "is"
Very simple explanation of use of �s for possession (singular only) and for "is". (Does not cover �s for has.) A first introduction to this topic for young pupils. Exercise requires pupils to determine whether the sentence uses �s to mean "is" or as a possessive.
Level: elementary
Age: 7-12
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 22
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Could video games help treat depression?
News article about video games and the ways in which they could help those with mental health conditions. Questions are true/false/not in text, vocabulary and synonyms, and open conversation questions.
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
Type: article
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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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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World�s oldest wing walker: article and questions
Article about the world�s oldest wing walker with comprehension questions and language analysis questions. Answers in red on p3.
Level: advanced
Age: 15-100
Type: article
Downloads: 41
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Practise PRONOUNS - based on article about smoking in cars with children
Text about a ban on smoking in cars with children and associated exercises on pronoun use. Designed to be used after a lesson on pronouns to show pupils why it�s important in the �real world� to aid with text comprehension.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: article
Downloads: 24
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SAT-style critical reading / reading comprehension on Schiller
SAT-style critical reading test on Schiller. Covers reading comprehension and high-level vocabulary. Answers and text included.
Level: advanced
Age: 15-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 22
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Commas to separate sentence elements
Guide dealing with how to use commas to separate sentence elements and to separate items in a list. Final exercise is a paragraph which the students need to add the commas into.
Answers are provided on page 3.
(Does not cover restrictive and non-restrictive clauses.)
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: grammar-guide
Downloads: 31
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Comparatives in English: easy flowchart guide
Flowchart to explain the rules for forming comparatives, followed by a basic exercise to practise these rules.
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100
Type:
Downloads: 20
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