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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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Tourists in Antarctica: article and vocabulary/grammar questions focusing on reading skills
Questions focus on using the context to elicit the meaning of unknown vocabulary, and using grammatical knowledge to reformulate sentences from the text.
The article discusses the benefits and risks of Antarctic tourism.
Level: advanced
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 38
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Suggestions and advice: role plays
8 role plays to practise the structures for giving suggestions and advice.
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 63
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Back to school discussion questions
21 "back to school" discussion questions and phrases to include in answers.
Would work as a 1-1, paired, group or whole class discussion activity.
Designed to stimulate discussion and reflection in the first weeks of term.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 65
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because, so, but, however, although: reformulation and logical connectors
Reformulation exercises covering:
because / so
because of, due to
but / however / although
despite, in spite of
Text comprehension based on WWF text about deforestation
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 73
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VIDEO comprehension - a new eye operation to cure a form of blindness
A video listening exercise about an exciting new medical procedure. Video is from Sky news on Youtube - the link is on the worksheet.
Exercises are: general comprehension, number comprehension, key vocabulary, free discussion.
Answers provided on second page of document.
Level: advanced
Age: 15-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 18
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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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Beckhams donate 20 boxes of clothes to charity to aid typhoon victims
BBC news story about the Beckhams� donations to a charity shop in order to raise money for victims of Typhoon Haiyan. Questions following the text cover key terms, basic comprehension, close comprehension and open-ended discussion questions.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 44
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Reading skills: space tourism
Text about space tourism with exercises designed to improve reading skills: identifying what pronouns refer to, finding definitions in the text, considering the significance of tenses. Final exercise requires readers to answer classic comprehension questions having completed the warm-up exercises. 2 writing tasks are also suggested. Answers provide...
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 142
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Reading exercises: animals
3 articles from BBC Newsround for children. All 3 are about animals. The articles seem long but the questions only require learners to read for the key information.
Level: elementary
Age: 7-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 22
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