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Participles used as adjectives: cards
A set of adjectives ending in -ed or -ing for students to use to create random sentences. Good plenary or warm-up activity.
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100
Type:
Downloads: 10
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Singapore: super trees - video and text comprehension
For the topic �space and exchange� - a video about green space in Singapore followed by two articles from which learners must extract key points. Final exercise offers some open-ended discussion questions. Would be well suited to small group work or homework. (Answers to the video comprehension are provided on the last page of the document.)
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 24
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Prepositions training: advanced
An extract from H.G. Wells with prepositions exercises which increase in difficulty (gap-fill from choices, correcting wrong sentences and free gap-fill). Designed to prepare learners for ACT and SAT style exams. C2+ level.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 42
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Use of �s for possessive and for "is"
Very simple explanation of use of �s for possession (singular only) and for "is". (Does not cover �s for has.) A first introduction to this topic for young pupils. Exercise requires pupils to determine whether the sentence uses �s to mean "is" or as a possessive.
Level: elementary
Age: 7-12
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 22
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Reading comprehension: China bans celebrities� children from appearing on reality TV shows
Article from BBC News about a ban on Chinese celebrities� children appearing on TV.
Pre-reading discussion questions and vocabulary, post-reading true/false/not in text questions, vocabulary matching and gap-fill, role-plays based on the text.
Answers are provided.
This would fit into a unit on TV, media, press freedom, celebrities and fame, rig...
Level: advanced
Age: 11-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 67
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Preferences, likes and dislikes: sentence builder
A writing frame/grid showing how to build sentences about likes and dislikes. A good support to help beginners scaffold a written piece or a simple speech about likes and dislikes.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-100
Type: others
Downloads: 16
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Writing a postcard - BEGINNERS
A simple postcard and comprehension questions, followed by a list of useful postcard phrases. Pupils can then use the original text as a model to write their own simple postcard (by changing the underlined phrases). Designed for beginners aged 9. No formal explanation of the grammar is required as the verb structures are to be copied from the sourc...
Level: elementary
Age: 7-12
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 244
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Taboo - support vocab and cards for the game
Some support phrases to help pupils to say things "in a different way" and especially to deal with describing a word they don�t know the English vocabulary for. Discuss the phrases and example descriptions before using the cards to play the game "taboo" (describe the word to a partner or the class without saying the word itself). This can work as a...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 31
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Mixed grammar exercises: SAT preparation
An article from the LA times adapted into a training exercise for non-native pupils preparing for SATs or similar high-level exams. Exercises cover prepositions, tenses, adjectives/adverbs and identifying sentence errors. Answers can be found by comparing pupils� choices with the source text (also given in the document).
Level: advanced
Age: 15-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 36
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Music and music preferences pairwork discussion activity
Questions about music and music preferences; useful phrases to include in answers. Pupils work in pairs or small groups. Suggested activity: they interview each other using the questions provided. Each time a pupil answers a question, they must draw one of the phrase cards (p2) from a hat or envelope and include that phrase in their answer. Increas...
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 27
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