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THE LONELY GIANT - READING FOLLOW-UP
Hi! I was doing stories from around the world with my sts, and I got the book of Scottish folk and fairy tales. I found the story of the Lonely Giant very charming and did it for Valentine�s Day with my sts - this is a follow-up. They found it interesting, and it wasn�t our typical Valentine�s day - we had a fantasy project with their drawings from...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-12
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 12
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project 2 - Canada, Celine & Bryan
This is part 2 of 3 projects I�m posting today. This one deals with Canada, and the work and lyrics of Celine Dion and Bryan Adams, with a funny twist in between. It�s a combination of language, geography, music and basic culture. It includes several pages of lesson ideas, worksheets, handouts, with speaking, writing, listening, etc. You can do eac...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 222
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VOYAGER - THE STAR TREK ADVENTURE 1
This is part 1 of my Voyager wss. This one contains suggested writing, speaking and class-poster activities about crew members. If your sts like science fiction, and you can�t afford to have them watch a long movie, it�s enough to have them watch 1 episode. Part 2 contains 2 worskheets (basic story and one particular episode paraphrasing worksheet)...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 15
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THE WORLD OF STORY-MAKING
This is a collection of ideas and picture cards for intermediate and advanced sts, which you can use to have a very creative and productive lesson with very little papers, some pics and some music, and the results can be amazing. You can use this as a starter point for your own picture cards. Kids all ages love writing stories, be they SF, comedy, ...
Level: advanced
Age: 9-17
Type: Choose
Downloads: 232
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funny song - down by the bay
If you�re looking for a really funny song for your kids, I recommend this one. My kids loved it, a colleague of mine even played guitar for her kids, and they loved writing thier own versions of unusual lyrics for it. It�s really fun.
Level: elementary
Age: 7-10
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 22
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AVATAR - movie follow-up worksheet 3
This is the third worksheet (2-pager) based on texts about the movie Avatar. I wasn�t sure whether to put it under intermediate or advanced, but everybody knows their sts best. It�s some vocabulary work, writing and comprehension work as well. In the teacher�s key, there are also 2 games prepared. I hope you find it useful. (There are 3 worksheets ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 192
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BUBLE, HOLLYWOOD & FAME
This is part 3 of my collection of wss based on songs and texts about social problems. This one is based on Michael Buble�s Hollywood and texts about fame and teenagers. All the links and teacher�s key are included. The texts have many active reading tasks, and each page of wss can be used separately.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 89
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Valentine�s Day Collection - various teaching materials
This is a collection of wss prepared for my intermediate and advanced groups, based on Valentine�s Day basic info, the movie Intolerable Cruelty (C. Zeta-Jones and G. Clooney), Suspicious Minds song, funny and serious texts about men and women, murphy�s law on love, even some texts from the forum and the teacher�s cafe about love... I hope you find...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 227
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THE FISHER KING - detailed movie follow-up
This is a wonderful movie to do with advanced sts (I did it with FCE and CAE groups), because it�s funny, serious, normal and twisted - just like any other Gilliam�s movie. It�s not new, so they probably haven�t seen it, which is great, because you can watch it part by part, and keep them guessing. At first they are a bit confused(with Robin Willia...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 41
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JUDGING BY APPEARANCES - advanced/intermediate ws
This is a wonderful inspirational text which was posted not long ago in our ESL cafe by Lucia13. It inspired me to make a ppt and ws about the topic of judging people on appearances, since I�m teaching my students to describe people. There are pre, while and post-reading tasks, as well as the original version of the text. I hope you find it as moti...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 228
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CUTE ANIMALS - short stories about animals
This is a ppt linked with my ws also called Cute Animals. The ppt contains 3 of my new stories with a follow-up activity for each, plus three suggestions for the sts to invent their own stories (so you can also use it with intermediate sts). You can use the ppt alone, or accompanied with the ws wher...
Level: elementary
Age: 7-12
Downloads: 77
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THE CONDITIONALS GAME
This is a ppt I made for my intermediate and advanced students who are fed up with revising conditionals using worksheets, which we sometimes all are. It can be used directly in class, or simply as an idea for an activity with pictures and word cards. You can use it with any type of conditional, as ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 358
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THE ADVENTURES OF ISABEL - funny scary poem(for Halloween maybe?)
This is a ppt inspired and dedicated to our very own Franknbea and Anaisabel, and the ESL cafe. It�s based on the Ogden Nash poem The Adventures of Isabel and I�ve also added a Halloween activity for students. It can be used for intermediate sts as well, but it has a special sense of humour, so be c...
Level: advanced
Age: 11-17
Downloads: 34
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AN IMAGINARY PLANET - reading, speaking and writing for intermediate students
I have created this ppt for my internediate kids (9-10 yrs old), as follow-up for space and astronauts (a text in Chatterbox 4). It�s a reading text about an imaginary planet, a speaking activity about Earth, and a writing task to create their own planet. (There�s also a matching worksheet available...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-12
Downloads: 49
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Ever seen this woman?
Not one of my most colourful activities, but the lesson I had using this ppt turned out to be one of the most powerful and memorable experiences with teenagers. I had been looking for an interesting, unlike-typical-school history text to do with kids, when this text came to me via e-mail and stunned...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 58
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FANTASY - CARTOONS AND MOVIES MIX-UP
This is a ppt with two tasks - to find mistakes in stories (Shrek 2, Robin Hood, Wizard of Oz, Minimoys, Stardust, Inkheart, Harry Potter, Little Mermaid, Lord of the Rings)and then to find mistakes in the spelling of fairytale words. I used it for a group game in summer camp, but since fairytales g...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-17
Downloads: 35
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ELEMENTARY REVISION GAMES - kids� level 1
This is a ppt I use at the end of school year with my level 1 school kids - we revise all material through this ppt and we play it as games in 2-3 teams. It covers many topics (alphabet, he/she, colours, numbers, city places...) and it�s really fun to do.
Level: elementary
Age: 7-11
Downloads: 58
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word games!!!!
It�s time for word games - brain teasers! You can use them to finish your school or start the next one! You can use them all at once, or each slide for a new lesson! You probably know some of them, but they may give you ideas on how to play games with all knowledge levels and ages, and it�s all LANG...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 345
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THE RAINBOW IN THE STONE
This is a story I wrote for my younger students, based on leprechaun legends and the mention of the Blarney stone. (I�ve used Ph. Martin�s free cliparts images.)I hope you find it useful and fun. At the end of the story I�ve prepared an association game (using my own template, available in the free ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 5-100
Downloads: 36
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SILLY ENGLISH - how easy is it to translate things?
This is a ppt I prepared for my advanced teenagers who got just a little bit overly self-confident as far as their knowledge was concerned. It is based on an e-mail I got with ridiculously translated hotel and other signs around the world. It�s really funny, but the task for the sts is to say it in ...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 82
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SHERLOCK HOLMES 3
This is the third OE I�ve made about Sherlock HOlmes. It contains two reading tasks - a multiple choice(based on a tex from Wikipedia about Holmes�s habits) and a true/false(based on a ppt video about Conan Doyle.). Hope you can use it.
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
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BORN FREE - OUR PLANET
I made this OE inspired by the video for Born Free, but the basis for the exercise is actually environmental care, enjoying the nature and preserving it, so it revolves around nature vocabulary. It contains two videos and several tasks - vocabulary, spelling, memory practice, fill-in... well, you�ll...
Level: advanced
Age: 11-100
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NIGHT LIKE THIS - ROMANCE
This is a simple exercise based on the song �Night Like This� by C. Emerald, with a listening task, vocabulary and writing tasks with adjectives and a short rhyming task with a silly love song at the end. I hope you like it.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
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QUESTIONS - yes-no, wh, tags and some fun
This is an OE designed to drill the students in making questions in various tenses - yes-no questions, wh-questions, question tags. There�s a fun teenage youtube video at the end with the �world record� in asking and answering questions. It�s there just for fun and an extra challenge for your studen...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
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LET IT SNOW - WINTER CLOTHES
This is a very simple task for small children to revise colours and winter clothes. It contains a Peppa video about snow and a task with colours and winter clothes. I made it all in capital letters, because my 6-year-olds find them easier to follow. I hope you find it useful and fun.
Level: elementary
Age: 5-8
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READ & LEARN - SYNONYMS & WORD FORMATION
This is a vocabulary task based on a poem by F. Letras (with his kind permission) and it contains synonyms, word formation and reading comprehension. I hope you find it useful. The poem has an interesting ending, so you might even use it (for Halloween maybe?) as an open-ended poem with your stodent...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
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FANTASY LAND -PART ONE
I made this OE to accompany my Fantasy Land project (5 wss available with posters, projects and games). I prepared this for my after-holiday workshop, to step back into English, but not immediately into our coursebooks. It�s more fun and basic culture than grammar, but I love sneaking vocabulary in ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-14
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LET�S PLAY PIRATES!
I made this OE for my students who just love pirate stories, treasure hunting and pirate songs. It has a listening task (a very catchy pirate song), a reading task and a treasure hunt with prepositions. I hope you like it! AAAAArrrrgh!
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-12
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CONDITIONALS WITH HARRY POTTER
This is an OE with four different types of conditionals (from zero to third) and a fun video/audio challenge at the end, based on Harry Potter stories. It�s another addition to moravc�s project on learning grammar with Harry Potter. I hope you find it useful!
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
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SHERLOCK HOLMES 2
This is the second part of my Holmes OE series. This one contains two tasks - the first one is a multiple choice task with info on Holmes from Wikipedia, and the second one is an open cloze based on listening to the words from the given TV-series trailer. I hope it�s useful to you.
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
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