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Classroom language
This worksheet helps to promote English as the classroom language, as it provides students some of the language they will need to communicate in specific situattions that often occur and, when necessary, to take the initiative to do so.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 12
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Flashcards - House and home
These flashcards can be used with the name of the object printed right underneath it (so, just print it as it is) or they can be used to revise some vocabulary (CD, TV, sofa, ...) and introduce other items, as well.
An interactive approach to them may be achieved by separating the names from the pictures; the names are randomly distributed by the ...
Level: elementary
Age: 10-14
Type: flash-card
Downloads: 46
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Food domino - A
This is the first file (out of 6 - the original file was huge, so I had to divide it into smaller pieces, to meet the criteria we have to abide to) of a food domino.
Each page displays a table with six pieces which are to be separated from each other (the three columns have to be separated from each other, and then cut at the line between lines tw...
Level: elementary
Age: 6-14
Type: others
Downloads: 12
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Wag the dog
This is a "while wachting" worksheet which helps students reflect on the ethics of the media - it focuses not only on the role that politics plays / may play in manipulating the media, but also on how much one should rely on information that is not checked by the usage of different means.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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Writing exercise - at the restaurant
Ss are here asked to write the dialogue between Mrs. Johansson and the waiter in the restaurante, John Dingle.
Take-turning is very well defined here and ss are told exactly what to order, how much to pay, etc.
This dialogue was created to have ss apply the contents of a powerpoint I gave them in which the specific linguistic exponentes to be use...
Level: elementary
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7
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Mirror, mirror, on the wall
Sally is a very insecure teenager who sees a very distorted image of herself when she looks in the mirror.
Ss are asked to reflect upon it and then very briefly describe her (in one or two sentences), both physically and psychologically. In a second exercise, they are asked to read a text about beauty as a social construction in order to spot and ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 17
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Save Miguel - Guidelines
Save Miguel (www.savemiguel.com) is a campaign (by an environmentalist organization and by a cork industry) meant to promote the usage of cork (instead of plastic - cork is not only natural and recyclable, but it also promotes a very large absortion of CO2) and to protect cork oak forests, which are a natural habitat for many endangered species.
T...
Level: elementary
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 9
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Space exploration timeline
This worksheet presents a basic timeline of how space exploration has developed since the late 1950�s.
It can be used as na introduction to the topic "New Worlds to be discovered / explored" and it is also a good starting pointo to have students think about how tachnology has evolved during this period and how fierce the competition in this area w...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 22
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Exercises on possessives - determiners and pronouns
Two very simple exercises to have students practice the different usages of possessive determiners and possessive pronouns.
Level: elementary
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 22
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Space Oddity
This worksheet begins with an exercise to fill in the blanks of David Bowie�s song. It then moves on to some comprehension exercises on the contents that help ss better understand the two perspectives on space exploration (how Ground Control sees it and how Major Tom truly feels it).
Once the song is clearly understood, it�s time for critical read...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: others
Downloads: 19
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Passive voice - present simple and past simple
A very simple PowerPoint presentation on the passive voice (usage and form) of sentences in the present simple tense and in the past simple tense.
The examples shown make this powerpoint a good teaching tool to work with late teenagers / adults.
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
Downloads: 34
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Modal verbs
This PowerPoint explains the most common usage of modal verbs, giving specific information about the limits to the usage of each one of them and illustrating the contents with specific examples (whenever necessary, the sentences in which modals are used come as a part of two- or three-long sentence ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Downloads: 49
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Fashion Quiz
This powerpoint consists only of one slide, which works as a quiz on students� awareness of fashion (mostly, on their awareness of who was important in creating things that are now a part of their everyday-life).
It�s a soft way to introduce the topic "Fashion" / clothes.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 8
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Meet the Clarksons
This is a game which ss play by clicking on the correct answers; if they do so, they move on to the next question until they get to the end of it. If they click on a wrong answer, they will be given a second chance.
The questions include the adequate means of transportation for the Clarkson family ...
Level: elementary
Age: 7-12
Downloads: 4
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Past Simple Tense
Clear and detailed explanation on how to form the past simple tense (in the affirmative, in the negative and in the interrogative), and on spelling changes of regular verbs in the affirmative.
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Downloads: 38
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Present Simple tense
A detailed powerpoint explaining how the present simple tense is formed - in the affirmative, negative and interrogative forms.
It is a good tool for teenagers / adults.
Level: elementary
Age: 14-100
Downloads: 13
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Phrasal verbs with turn
Powerpoint with phrasal verbs made from "turn" - the most common meanings are explained with a clear definition and a practical example of how each can be used.
Verbs with similar or opposite meanings are grouped in the same slide to help ss compare and contrast them as to meaning and usage.
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
Downloads: 15
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The inner structure of a traditional piece of news
This is a short powerpoint presentation to show the three most common parts of a traditional piece of news - headline + lead paragraph + text. It can be used to guide ss in writing when working on the topic news / media. For obvious reasons, pictures and the subtitlies that go with them are not dea...
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
Downloads: 9
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Questions on TV programmes
These questions are meant to have ss start talking about different types of TV programmes and discuss their preferences; as ss name their favourite TV programmes, the teacher can register (on the board) the name of the programme and the type of show it is, and from here other types of programmes can...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Downloads: 7
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Language in use - verb tenses referring to the past
A practical example of how present and past tenses (both simple tenses and perfect tenses) differ in meaning and are to be used.
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Downloads: 17
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