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            SYMBOL  -  SIMILE  -  METAPHOR  -  PERSONIFICATION 
            
            This ws explains the four rhetoric figures, says what figurative speech means. It explains the effet that the use of these figures of speech has on literature and rhetoric. Then students get a mixture of 16 or so examples and have to explain whether they are symbols or similes or metaphors or personifications AND what the use of these words implies...
            
             
            Level: advanced 
            Age: 13-17 
            Type: worksheet 
            Downloads: 85
            
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            Tell the truth - Tell a lie !   
            
            A game in which players must tell the others a lie or the truth about certain subjects. They tehn guess whether he lied or said the truth. Aim: make them all talk!! 
Players roll the dice and place their counters on the appropriate squares. 
They then take one of the �Tell the truth� � �Tell a lie� cards without showing it to the others and do wh...
            
             
            Level: intermediate 
            Age: 13-17 
            Type: activity-card 
            Downloads: 47
            
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            Tenses in the past - how to form correct tense forms  
            
            Another very BASIC worksheet for students who still mix up tense forms or get them wrong. It�s NOT about USING tenses correctly in a sentence but about simply FORMING the right verb forms. 2 types of exercises plus key. You might find it primitive, but in every intermediate or advanced class I have 3-4 students who need JUST THIS. It might help the...
            
             
            Level: intermediate 
            Age: 12-14 
            Type: worksheet 
            Downloads: 5
            
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            The new Cambridge CAE exam - an overview and preparation guide  (new exam since 2015)  
            
            Since Januar 2015 there has been a new type of Cambridge Advanced Certificate (CAE)exam. This seven-pages worksheet gives your students precise information on all the TASKS, on how to PRACTICE for them, on how they are MARKED. For every one of the over 20 task types there are detailed STRATEGIES that will help students to cope with the different ta...
            
             
            Level: advanced 
            Age: 16-100 
            Type: worksheet 
            Downloads: 54
            
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            The new Cambridge FCE exam - an overview and preparation guide  (new exam since 2015) 
            
            Since Januar 2015 there has been a new type of Cambridge First Certificate of English (FCE) exam. The changes that were made are considerable. This seven-pages worksheet gives your students precise information on all the TASKS and FORMATS, on how to PRACTICE for them, on how they are MARKED. For every one of the almost 20 task types there are detai...
            
             
            Level: advanced 
            Age: 16-100 
            Type: worksheet 
            Downloads: 59
            
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            The Park Lane Mystery  
            
            MURDER IN PARK LANE!! 
On the basis of 10 role cards with brief statements your students must find out what happened. They read out 1 or 2 role cards each (depending on the size of the group), then have to come up with ideas and discuss them. The less information you give them, the more they will have to communicate. You might even hand out the sp...
            
             
            Level: intermediate 
            Age: 13-17 
            Type: activity-card 
            Downloads: 79
            
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            un- in- im-, il(l)-, ir-, or dis-...??  Negative prefixes II, difficult words 
            
            Worksheet II on prefixes that turn adjectives into their opposites. This time, definitions and the prefix are given, students have to pick the right adjectifes and fill in. 
             
            Level: advanced 
            Age: 14-17 
            Type: worksheet 
            Downloads: 59
            
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            Un-, in-, im-, il(l)-, ir-, or dis-...? Negative prefixes for adjectives  
            
            Dozens of adjectives have to be combined with the correct negative prefix to be turned into their opposite.
Key included on page 2. There is another worksheet on the same topic with more elaborate vocabulary for advanced learners here: http://www.eslprintables.com/printable.asp?id=257466#thetop  
             
            Level: intermediate 
            Age: 13-17 
            Type: worksheet 
            Downloads: 227
            
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            US History I - matching exercise 
            
            First of three worksheets on important events in US history. Students match titles (plus pictures) and explanation of the event and then put them into chronological order in the little grid I included. Can also be cut out and used as cards. Key on page 2. Here is the second one: http://www.eslprintables.com/printable.asp?id=248634#thetop
             
            Level: intermediate 
            Age: 12-17 
            Type: worksheet 
            Downloads: 404
            
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            US History II - matching exercise  
            
            Second of three worksheets on important events in US history. Students match titles (plus pictures) and explanations of the event and then put them into chronological order in the little grid I included. Can also be cut out and used as cards. Key on page 2---Look out for Number 3 of this series 
             
            Level: intermediate 
            Age: 12-17 
            Type: worksheet 
            Downloads: 333
            
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