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Real Life Superheroes
This is an activity to practice writing paragraphs. It is scaffolded for lower level intermediate with fill in the blanks, followed by free writing and includes a brief lesson plan. Great to add after the Superhero PPT or as a separate writing practice.
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6


 
Review: Time Expressions in the Present Simple vs. Present Continuous
This worksheet is a review of the relationship between time expressions and the present simple and present continuous tenses. The exercise should last about 30+ minutes with opportunities to check student comprehension of questioning and answering in the Pres Simple vs Pres Cont. Rather than correct students directly, it also gives peers the opport...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6


 
Reviewing HAVE (GOT) TO, CAN, ALLOWED TO
Worksheet includes opportunities to review the rules for using HAVE (GOT) TO, CAN and ALLOWED TO, as well as generating sentences, exercises in dictation, using the grammar in the past tense, interpreting rules: what you can and can�t do and creating your own poster of rules. Upper Intermediate and Advanced
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6


 
RSA: Drive, The Truth about What Motivates Us Listening and Speaking Activity
There are several activities here directed to help scaffold instruction so that intermediate/advanced listening and speaking students have practice listening to an authentic lecture and discussing related ideas to frontload vocabulary and activate prior knowledge before taking a formal assessment of their listening/note taking skills in the form of...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 15


 
Simon Says Game Using Prepositions of Direction
**Note: In this case, the focus is on TPR (total physical response) as it relates to connecting the meaning of certain prepositions of direction to carrying them out in action. Adding the �Simon says� rules is optional. I suggest playing it once without the �Simon says� aspect and then later incorporating the rules and allowing students to take tur...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 20


 
Simple Past Tense Songs: Noticing and Pronunciation Activities
Three songs with noticing and cloze activities used to identify regular and irregular simple past tense verb forms and specifically to notice different pronunciations of the -ed ending
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 8


 
Speed Dating Activity
Directions: For use to promote listening/speaking skills, vocabulary development and comradery in an advanced level class � Begin by frontloading vocabulary � which words don�t students already know? Next pair students together to start. Explain the similarities this activity shares with speed dating. Every time the teacher says �switch� and signa...
Level: advanced
Age: 10-17
Type: others
Downloads: 5