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Describing Landscapes - Part 1
A simple worksheet designed to be part of a set devloping the skills to write about pictures of landscapes. This worksheet has vovabulary to find in the pictures and a very simple reading task. I also ask students to underline or highlight there is/are and prepositional phrases.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 104
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Natural Disasters Video Lesson
Be sensitive to who you show the videos to.
Most kids are awe struck by the videos. You can also play them with the sound off for the first exercise.
The videos are easy to find on You Tube - the names to search for on you tube are:
Colossal Canadian Tornado
Hurricane Sandy Super storm slams East Coast states
Massive Landslide caught on ta...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 101
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Describing landscapes
Another simple worksheet - to describe a picture of a landscape. The picture is of Japan but it could easily be substituted for another image.
We used it as part of a project on the environment. The students had been learning geographical features and writing simple there is/are sentences. I tried to extend their writing by adding adjectives.
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Level: elementary
Age: 8-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 77
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Reading Activities Log
This lists 12 short activities that students can complete when they have finished reading graded readers or other books and is a way of monitoring that reading has been done as part of an extensive reading programme. Students must complete an activity every time they finish a book and before they select a new one - they must show their work to the...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 75
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Describe the suspects - witness statement
My students had to write a letter to the police reporting a crime they had witnessed at the school. This pairwork exercise is an information gap activity. They read the text aloud to each other. They must listen and ask for repetition/spelling if they do not understand - they must not cheat! It provides a model answer for their writing. We had alr...
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 67
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Police report - describe the stoeln objects in your school bag
My students had to write a letter to the police reporting a break in at the school and that there bag had been stolen - describing what was inside so that it could be identified. This is work for one of the paragraphs in that letter - but could also be used as a stand alone activity. I copied pictures off the internet and put them on the projector....
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-14
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 61
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Book Reading Record
A form to record books students have read when setting up an extensive reading programme
Level: elementary
Age: 7-16
Type: reading
Downloads: 40
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Adventure Tourism Essay Scaffold
A writing scaffold made for a 4 paragraph discussion essay designed to support students doing the essay in Unit 4 of FCE Gold B2. However, I have also used this as a scaffold for helping students to write good PEE (Point, Example, Evidence) paragraphs for an IELTS essay.
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100
Type:
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Formal letter to report a crime
A formal letter to report a crime
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 31
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Planet Jano
A reading comprehension with cloze, True/False and numbering paragraphs in the correct order.
I used this with a class of boys. They had been studying planets. This was a model text for them to then create their own text about a newly discovered planet and write about it using the reading text as a model. I brought in coloured pictures of strang...
Level: elementary
Age: 8-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 25
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