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First-Time Traveller Text
This is a short text which emphasizes the Present Perfect. It is designed for students who have already started studying this tense. After the text (which may be used first as a listening exercise), there are thirteen comprehension questions.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 41
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Storm Text
This is an original text I wrote to practice the past simple and past continuous with vocabulary related to the weather. Students can read out loud to practice pronunciation before answering the 14 comprehension questions.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 57
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Purpose Clauses
This is a fill-in-the-blank worksheet to practice the purpose clauses using to, in order (not) to, so as (not) to, and so + subject + present, future or conditional. It could also be used as an exam. There are 11 sentences, twice (the same ws is repeated on the first page in order to make fewer copies). Answers are given on the second page.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 14
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Reading Comprehension Riddles
Here are ten written riddles to be used for an exam to evaluate written comprehension. The vocabulary is quite varied. Answers provided.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 22
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Reading Comprehension Riddles
These are ten riddles to test students� reading comprehension. Vocabulary is varied. I made it for my group of 6th graders. Answer Key provided.
Note: I allow students to write the answers in their native language if they don�t know them in English--after all, I am grading reading comprehension, so if they understand the description, that�s g...
Level: elementary
Age: 11-14
Type: reading
Downloads: 25
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Too/Enough/Little/Few/Too much/Too many -- Fill in the Blanks
This is another in my series of Too/Enough/Few/Little worksheets, designed to give students practice with these terms. There are three sections here, the first with Too/Enough, the second with Few/Little/A few/A little and the third with Too much/Too many. Answer Key provided on second page.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 82
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Connector Text
This is a description of a summer holiday written in the first person. It is to serve as an example of an essay with special emphasis on the use of conjunctions to make the writing more interesting. There are a great many conjunctions to be identified, explained and consequently used by the students. The second page is a question follow-up to be ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: Choose
Downloads: 21
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Oral Questions to Practice Too & Enough, page 1
This consists of three sets of 12 oral questions in order for students to get used to hearing too and enough used correctly before they have to write their own translations or fill in the blanks.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: others
Downloads: 13
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Professions/Jobs -- Riddles
These are lengthy descriptions of four professions to be read aloud in class for pronunciation practice and for comprehension. Students must discover which occupation each riddle describes. As a follow-up, I have students write their own description of different professions.
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 26
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Washington, D.C.
This is an original text with information about the capital of the United States. It can be used to generate conversation about Washington, D.C., or travelling in general. The teacher might make some follow-up questions or ask the students to write their own questions about it, as if they were the teachers. There could be some explanation about ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 17
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