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Isabel L
Isabel L
Spain



br The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. br B.B. King br

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MOVIE: BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM
This is a worksheet with comprehension questions after watching "Bend it like Beckham". There are also discussion points about gender stereotypes in sport.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 191


 
THE TELL TALE HEART. Text, activities + key
Worksheet about the short story The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe. The text comes from the Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2148/2148-h/2148-h.htm#2H_4_0019). I have hyperlinked to an online dictionary some words that can be difficult to understand and added some activities (pre-reading and comprehension. Enjoy!
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 153


 
LISTENING SPRAINED ANKLE AND DROWNING
Two listening activities about what to do if someone gets an ankle sprained or is drowning. Links to the videos provided in the worksheet
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type:
Downloads: 18


 
TALKING ABOUT THE FUTURE: WILL/GOING TO
Exercises to practise the uses of will and going to to express future. If you prefer, you can find the online version at http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=3537 I hope it is useful.
Level: elementary
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 27


 
SONG: CRY ME A RIVER BY JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
Exercises to practise simple past using the song. Includes a short biography, fill in the blanks, irregular verbs, pronunciation of -ed in regular verbs and a writing exercise. Enjoy it!!
Level: elementary
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 68


 
HOUSEHOLD CHORES FLASH CARDS
Flash cards with household chores. I used them to teach the vocabulary and then I made bingo cards with the pictures. In each card I crossed some chores (I don�t have to ...) . We played bingo with the structure "have to /don�t have to".
Level: elementary
Age: 8-17
Type: flash-card
Downloads: 43


 
THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
I adapted the Legend of Sleepy Hollow to make it easier to understand by my students. I�ve uploaded some activities to go with it. I hope you find it useful.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 57


 
Text analysis: description of appearance
I�ve used the description of the Cullens in Twilight and added some exercises: title for text and paragraphs, vocabulary, true/false questions. Hope it�s useful.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 27


 
ASSESSMENT OF ORAL PRODUCTION
I think someone was asking for this kind of rubric for speaking assessment. Just in case you find it useful.
Level: intermediate
Age: 3-17
Type: others
Downloads: 124


 
JUVENILE CRIME LIST
Text about British police�s suggestion to make a list of potential criminal kids. Useful for comprehension and discussion of moral issues. Key included The preview looks all wrong. There are phonetic transcriptions in the last exercise, which seems to be the problem, but it�s OK when downloaded. In fact there are only two pages
Level: elementary
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 14

 


REPUBLIC OF IRELAND
Presentation about the Republic of Ireland, part of a collection of presentations about English speaking countries. Fact file, cities, Irish famous people, etc.

Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 142


BRITISH PREHISTORY
Power point presentation about prehistory in Britain. It was intendend for CLIL lessons of history. There is also a worksheet with questions about this.

Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 5


PASSIVE GAME
Game for students to practise the passive voice. They have to change active sentences into passive ones. There are different kinds of passive sentences, including double transitive verbs and reporting verbs. Hope you find it useful

Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 318


DESCRIPTION OF PERSONALITY 2
Presentation 2 for learning adjectives to describe people�s personality. Sorry, although I reduced the size of images,I had to divide the presentation in two parts.

Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 50


St Patrick�s Day
Presentation about the story and/or legend of Saint Patrick and how this very special day is celebrated all around the world. Enjoy it!!

Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 41


DESCRIPTION OF PERSONALITY 1
Presentation 1 for learning adjectives to describe people�s personality. There is a second part. Sorry, although I reduced the size of images,I had to divide the presentation in two parts.

Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 70


THE USA
Presentation about the USA, part of a collection of presentations about English speaking countries. Fact file, cities, American famous people, etc.

Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 360


Christmas in Britain
Power point presentation about what British people traditionally do at Chistmas, how they decorate homes and streets. Hope you enjoy it. Merry Christmas!!

Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Downloads: 75


BRITISH AND AMERICAN FESTIVALS
Presentation about how British and American people celebrate some popular festivals.

Level: elementary
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 134


GAMEBOARD TEMPLATE
This is a template for simple board games. I hope you find it useful

Level: elementary
Age: 3-17
Downloads: 0


HOUSEHOLD CHORES
Exercise to practise vocabulary related to housework. There is also some practise on frequency adverbs and expressions and word order in the sentence. Enjoy it!!

Level: elementary
Age: 8-100


DESCRIPTION OF PERSONALITY
Exercise to practise some adjectives we can use to describe people�s personality. Enjoy it!!

Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100


WARNING: A POEM BY JENNY JOSEPH
Fill in the gaps exercise based on a well known English poem. I used it to teach time clauses: when+present to refer to the future, which some Spanish students find particularly difficult to grasp. An exercise about this structure is also included. I hope you find it useful.

Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100


PRESENT PERFECT / SIMPLE PAST
Exercise to practise the difference between the present perfect and the simple past. There is also practice of time expressions like already, still, yet, just, since, for, ago. Enjoy it!

Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100


Present perfect
Exercise to practise present perfect with adverbs: just,yet, still, already. There are some exercises using the song I still haven�t found ... by U2 (Not very original, I know, but useful enough). One of the exercises includes recognising simple phonetic transcriptions. I hope you find it useful...

Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100


WORD FORMATION
Exercise to learn new words from words we already know. Hope it�s useful

Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100


RELATIVE CLAUSES, DEFINING AND NON-DEFINING
Our students can practise relative clauses -defining and non-defining- with this exercise. Enjoy it!

Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100