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Reading comprehension - 2 stories about NZ animals
2 articles from the BBC. One is about people replacing sheep at rodeos; the other is about the kokako, a bird in New Zealand thought to possibly be extinct.
Exercises cover "wh" questions, vocabulary, gist reading, reformulation, and creative writing tasks.
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 46
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ACT or SAT practice: delete/add text elements (topic: traditional medicine)
An exercise about text comprehension at a deeper level. Readers must decide how deleting a portion of the text would affect the meaning. Other questions ask whether certain elements should be added to the text, and if so, where would be best.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 18
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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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Picture discussion prompts
A set of questions to use with any picture (from magazines or newspapers, or your own photos). Each question is open and designed to promote either detailed description or creative thinking.
Print the document out DOUBLE-SIDED - the second page gives useful vocab and structures to support pupils with each question.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: others
Downloads: 22
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Valentine�s Day: SPEAKING ACTIVITY Role plays
A set of 6 pair work role plays which centre on the theme of negotiations around Valentine�s Day. I designed them for use with an adult class (it could be awkward with younger learners!) but they could be adapted for other groups.
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 45
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Saint Nicholas - a simple introduction (past simple)
A very simple version of the Saint Nicholas story, plus easy questions (in the past simple), a true/false exercise and a description exercise.
Level: elementary
Age: 7-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 73
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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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News article and exercises: penguin research robot
A news article (from The Guardian) about a very cute robot which was disguised as a baby penguin to help study penguin behaviour in the wild.
Exercises: true/false, vocabulary, extended comprehension, phrasal verbs, word formation.
Answers provided.
Level: advanced
Age: 13-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 82
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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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Easily confused words: use - used to do - be used to doing - usually
A clear explanation of the commonly confused phrases use, used to, be used to and usually.
Worksheet covers pronunciation, open-ended expression and sentence correction (choose the correct option).
Answers are on the final page.
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
Type:
Downloads: 28
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