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How Mr Busy�s life is changing- (get used to+ing/be used to+ing)
Another episode focusing on "to get used to/can�t get used to +ing/ be used to+ing". An answer key has been added.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 99
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Children help to run their school
In a Scottish school, just over the boarder, children are given responsibilities to help run it - from being secretaries to gardeners - each of the twelve children have a job for the common good. A text from the Daily Mail with added discussion questions and language exercises - with answer key.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 161
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Happy Birthday WWW
The internet has changed our lives has been around for the last twenty years. An easy authentic BBC text flashing back briefly to how it all began and asks the question whether we could imagine a life without it? Language exercises and discussion questions have been added with a key.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 102
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How to become a good parent!
An authentic newspaper article airing the sensitive area of parenting from the Government point of view. After attemps at forming strategies to tackle obesity by eating five portions of fruit and vegetables a day, they have set up "five-a-day" steps to become a better parent Discussion questions before and after reading ensure a lively classroom di...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 125
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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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Boomerangs come back, don�t they?
A bird has spent her whole life returning to her original owner, againa and again, travelling vast distances. Now, at 15, she�s allowed to stay! A newspaper text about a homing pigeon with language exercises and comprehension questions.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 12
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Mr Busy is going on holiday (FUTURE)
This time Mr Busy is looking forward to a week at the seaside. The text uses various ways of expressing the future. Verbs are to be chosen from the box and used in the correct form. An answer key has been added.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 211
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A Restaurant of a Different Kind
This text describes a new invention from Germany, namely a restaurant without waiters. No waiter, no tip! Comprehension questions have been included as well as some discussion points and language elements.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 54
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Bookcrossing. Have you heard about it?
An authentic advertisement describing something quite exciting: bookcrossing - a method of passing on books by leaving them (coded) somewhere. Then fate takes over.If the book finds a new owner, and registers it on the net, its path across the world can be plotted as it passes from one to another. Comments on authors and characters in the books can...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 79
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British Quirks (peculiarities)
A set of British peculiarities which will bring a knowing smile to any native and insight to everyone else, into some of the little things which all add up to you catching a glimpse of what "Britishness" is all about. The texts have been taken and adapted from a book by Georgina Eade called Best of British. I�ve added exercises to each text.
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 468
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