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Christmas Homework
Hey! This is the Xmas homework I�ve prepared for my elementary students. It has exercises to review the first units of a begginer level: present simple , have got, can, routines, family and time prepositions. Hope you find it useful!
Level: elementary
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 48


 
Aspirational by Matthew Frost
This is a discussion activity about the short film Aspirational by Matthew Frost and with Kirsten Dunst in it. It focuses on how social networks have changed the way we socialize. In the video two girls want to take a selfie with the actress to post it on Face instead of talking to her. I used it with a B2+ group.
Level: advanced
Age: 15-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 16


 
Narrative tenses. Disaster at Sea
An exercise to practice narrative tenses. The text comes from an old book, I just turned it into a fill in the gaps exercise.
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 32


 
Future plans
Might, be going to, present continuous and will. Two conversations to complete with the correct form of the verb in brackets. If no verb is provided it means it�s a short answer.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 50


 
Noun Phrases
Hi everyone! Here is a set of cards to practice the combination of nouns (n+n; non OF noun; noun +s�/�s/+noun). I used it as a matching exercise, but it could also be used as a �Find the pairs� game. Hope it�s useful ;-)
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 32


 
Visual Thinking Strategies: family, free time, holidays
This is a VTS activity I created for my C1 students but it can be adapted to suit intermediate levels. Students create stories from a work of art (picture, painting). For more info on VTS here you have two very useful blogs: http://www.vtshome.org/what-is-vts http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/category/lesson-plans/whats-going-on-in-this-pictu...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 30


 
Jesse James
Biography of Jesse James in three parts: cloze test, word formation and lexical cloze.
Level: advanced
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 30


 
Aesop�s fables Tense practice
An exercise I prepared for my ss to practice mixed verb tenses. I used three fables by Aesop.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 18


 
Visual Thinking Strategies: work, relationships
This is a VTS activity I created for my C1 students but it can be adapted to suit intermediate levels. Students create stories from a work of art (picture, painting). For more info on VTS here you have two very useful blogs: http://www.vtshome.org/what-is-vts http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/category/lesson-plans/whats-going-on-in-this-pictu...
Level: advanced
Age: 15-100
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 29


 
How I met you mother video actv
Ok, Hopefully this time it will work!! some activities about How I met your mother, first episode first season. There should be TWO pages. I changed the order of the pages so that you can see the actvs first. If the second page doesn�t show, just let me know. On the second one there are five pictures of the main characters. SS have to relate the fi...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 3

 


Present Tenses
A ppt explaining the form and uses of present simple, present continuous and present perfect.

Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 8


Conditional sentences
All conditional sentences and some exercises to do do in class.

Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Downloads: 68


The simpsons family tree
Some slides presenting the Simpson�s family members. Practice of genitives and family vocabulary. It finishes with a pic from Family guy so that students can practice the structures learned.

Level: elementary
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 20


Open cloze test 2
An open cloze test for intermediate students. The text is from David Copperfield by Dickens.

Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100


Carlos Acosta
This is an exercise I prepared for my students. It goes with a reading exercise that comes in the book English Unlimited Intermediate (unit 7 Personal Qualities)

Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100


-ING vs TO INFINITIVE verbs
Two exercises to practice gerunds and infinitives. The first one is related to verb patterns, the second one to prepositions.

Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100


Collocations
15 sentences to complete with GO/GET/TAKE/DO

Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100


Crimes
Students complete the definitions with the correct �crime� and then listen to the pronunciation of the words.

Level: advanced
Age: 14-100


Open cloze test
An open cloze test for intermediate students. I took the text from the first chapter of Twilight.

Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100


Making questions
Ss have to make questions for the information provided (15 sentences). Tenses: present simple, pres.continuous, past simple, going to.

Level: elementary
Age: 10-100


Making suggestions
Online exercise to practice expressions such as: How about, Let�s, etc

Level: elementary
Age: 14-100


Pompeii
This is a text taken from the resource pack of the book I use in class (English Unlimited). I just turned the text into a fill in the gap exercise so that ss can practice narrative tenses.

Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100


What is Intellingence?
A listening exercise for intermediate ss. It�s a short documentary about the IQ test / theory of multiple intelligences.

Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100