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80+ RECENT IELTS Speaking Topics Arranged by Grammar
These are 80+ different IELTS cue card (long turn/part 2) topics from the last 6 months.
I have split them into categories according to the necessary grammar/time frame for your convenience. The �past experience� category is by far the largest, but there are also: present habit, hypotheticals, likes/dislikes, future plans and an �outlier� categor...
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 121
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Discover English 2 Unit 3a Flashcards
These are some flashcards I made for a student to help with the vocabulary from Discover English Book 2, Unit 3a. As well as pictures for: a tent, the dark, a garden, a scary film and "It�s freezing!", there are blank cards for translating the time into your own language.
Unfortunately the second one got a little misformatted when I converted it ...
Level: elementary
Age: 6-14
Type: flash-card
Downloads: 5
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Question or Statement?
Working on statements vs questions and their appropriate punctuation marks, with fill in the blanks exercises.
Level: elementary
Age: 9-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 1
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Winter Clothes
A christmas/winter themed worksheet on the theme of winter clothes. There are short, simple readings and questions for each one.
Level: elementary
Age: 5-12
Type:
Downloads: 4
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Mobile Phone Deals in the UK - Vocabulary List
This is just a vocabulary list I made for a student of mine who is coming to the UK to study, to help her understand what type of phone to choose. Maybe it will be useful for somebody else!
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: others
Downloads: 17
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Question or Statement? Fact Handout
Handout detailing the difference between a question and a statement.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-17
Type: others
Downloads: 0
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Review of Idioms
A worksheet to practise 14 different idioms. As you know, idioms are difficult and perhaps even harder to memorise than other advanced vocabulary, so our students need lots of practice.
Best for adults but it might also be good for an advanced teenager.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 37
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Rare vs Rarely and Seldom
I had a student who kept confusing �rare� and �rarely�, but was very confident about �seldom�, so I made this specific practice exercise! It might be useful if you are working on adverbs of frequency, or the difference between adverbs and adjectives.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 10
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Academic Word List Exercises for IELTS Prep [1]
A gapfill exercise with 8 words from the academic wordlist, a paragraph to complete with them, and a table to complete with alternative words from tose word families.
The article the text is from is freely available online: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2011/may/18/mit-massachusetts-150-years-genius
It is also used in the textbook �...
Level: advanced
Age: 15-100
Type:
Downloads: 8
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The Witches by Roald Dahl Formula 86 The Transformation
This worksheet is a companion to the brilliant book �the Witches� by Roald Dahl. (Between the chapters �the Recipe� and �Bruno Jenkins Disappears�).
It encourages the children to:
describe people, animals and difference, including naming animal body parts
notice the difference between the present simple and present continuous in use
order di...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 13
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher�s Stone Dursleys, Furniture and Appearance
A simple retelling of the first part of Harry Potter and the Philosopher�s Stone, with an emphasis on describing people and furniture.
Level: elementary
Age: 7-14
Downloads: 16
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St Patrick�s Day Problem PART 2 (Introduction to Past Simple Tense)
This is part 2 of a simple introduction to the past tense. It concludes the story and explains regular verbs in the simplest way possible. It originally had a video embedded in it (second-to-last slide) but since leaving it there would make the file too large, I have just put the link to the youtu...
Level: elementary
Age: 5-14
Downloads: 19
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher�s Stone Harry Gets Letters
This is vocabulary and questions for a two minute clip of Harry Potter and the Philosopher�s Stone - from Harry receiving the first letter from Hogwarts to Uncle Vernon burning them in the fire. The link to the clip is in the file. :)
Level: elementary
Age: 7-12
Downloads: 5
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Animal Lesson Lead-In Activity
A brief-lead in activity for any lesson with an animal-related topic. Unfortunately, I had to delete two animals from my version to make the file fit here, but you can download additional sounds here: https://seaworld.org/animals/sounds/
Level: elementary
Age: 8-100
Downloads: 3
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Simple Speaking Questions with Was/Were
It is just a simple powerpoint, with picture prompts to help the student remember the vocabulary items while concentrating on the past tense of �to be�.
It is the same PPT I uploaded the other day, except I have deleted the four words of Japanese (translations of time expressions) that annoyed so...
Level: elementary
Age: 5-14
Downloads: 13
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Halloween What Are They Doing?
A little powerpoint game for the youngest learners: teach them basic verbs with Halloween-appropriate characters!
Level: elementary
Age: 4-10
Downloads: 22
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St Patrick�s Day Problem PART 1 (Introduction to Past Simple Tense)
I had to split the file into two parts, sorry!
It�s a basic introduction to regular past simple verbs, continuing with the theme of St Patrick�s Day that my student and I had worked on the week before. It�s the real story of what happened to me this St Patrick�s day. :(
Level: elementary
Age: 5-14
Downloads: 20
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Connotations Board Game
This board game is designed to help with understanding the connotations of some words, rather than just the dictionary definitions. For example, the difference between saying someone is �slim�, �scrawny� or �skinny�. Some of the questions are opinions, others require one-word answers or descriptio...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
Downloads: 36
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher�s Stone: The Reptile House/Dudley�s Birthday Part 1
A simple retelling of a story from Harry Potter and the Philosopher�s Stone, from before Harry found out that he was a wizard. He goes to the zoo and befriends a snake. Unfortunately I had to split the powerpoint into two parts.
Level: elementary
Age: 7-14
Downloads: 13
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Ordering Fast Food Dialogues
This is a simple dialogue-based role play activity. It�s designed to help students order fast food, beginning with a dialogue to read, steadily removing words until they�re doing it on their own for the last few slides.
The vocabulary in it is nearly all from the picture dictionary here: http://w...
Level: elementary
Age: 6-100
Downloads: 21
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Which punctuation?!
A punctuation exercise to revise/practice the difference between questions, statements and exclamations, and the appropriate punctuation for them.
I will upload the printable version of this worksheet asap, so look amongst my other contributions if that�s a better format for you!
Level: elementary
Age: 10-100
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Phonics Hangman
A phonics hangman with simple words involving the following letters:
S A T P I N E G K D L O M
Level: elementary
Age: 4-10
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Advanced Prepositions Gap Fill/Multiple Choice Exercise
An gap fill and multiple choice exercise for adults/edvanced students.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
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Question and Statement
Working on statements vs questions and their appropriate punctuation marks, with fill in the blanks exercises.
I will upload this as a printable too asap. :)
Level: elementary
Age: 9-100
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Very Simple Listening: Ordering at a Restaurant, Food Vocabulary
A simple exercise for a beginner/elementary student, to practise vocabulary and listening.
Level: elementary
Age: 5-100
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Describing Movies
A multi-level listening comprehension exercise. As a native speaker, level 3 is about my �reading out loud speed� and level 4 is a little faster than I usually speak but many natives speakers do speak at that speed.
The audio is very short; 20-33 seconds depending on level, so it�s a quick exerc...
Level: elementary
Age: 12-100
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Describing Personality Traits
Fill in the blanks from the word bank, then a few multiple choice questions to practice words used to describe people.
Level: Choose
Age: 10-100
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