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Matthew@ELSP
Matthew Standley
Japan



I live and teach in Japan. I hope you find my print-outs useful. Have a good day :)

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Reading Comprehension - How does it feel (to be different)?
A positive text about my personal feelings as a man who looks different to most people around him (as I live in Japan). At the end I come to the conclusion that you can feel good being different from those around you. Very little complex grammar or vocabulary. Aimed at my 15-year-old Japanese public school students. A4. Editable. Teachers page with...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: Choose
Downloads: 115


 
Actions - Daily actions - Flashcards (B4 size)
Daily actions: Get up, eat breakfast, go to school, play a game, eat lunch, get home, eat dinner, take a bath, go to bed. NOTE: The "eat lunch" card shows a Japanese style school lunch clipart. _______________________________________________________________ I use this set with time flaschards for daily routine. For great time flashcards, please ...
Level: elementary
Age: 6-17
Type: flash-card
Downloads: 73


 
DIRECTIONS - Conversations and maps - lower intermediate level (street) map 2
I use this with 12 and 13 year-old students in big classes in middle school in Japan. PAGE 1: blank map with letters. PAGES 2&3: map A and map B. PAGES 4&5: activity cards A and B. PAGE 6: Four example conversations. PAGES 7-10: Place-name cards - I use these on a poster-sized version of the blank map. A4 editable (all art-work is simple groups of ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 30


 
Listening and reading comprehension with gapfill - Intermediate and Advanced - 10 activities
(1) Students listen to the short story which includes blanks. (2) Students read silently and listen. (3) Students read with the teacher. (4) Students read and listen and give the best word from the list when they reach a blank space. Teacher page included for each activity. Some of these have extra help pages (grammar etc). I would sugg...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 50


 
Past simple Q+A with [too / either / neither ]
(1) Ss practice the intro� conversations with the teacher. (2) Teacher emphasises that "too" is for 2 postives / "either/neither" is for 2 negatives, using the examples. (3) Ss do a short "too/either/neither" (or nothing) gap-fill. (4) Ss do a classmates-interview. PAGE 1: Intro, practice, gap-fill. PAGE 2: Interview activity. A4 colour, OK in B&W....
Level: elementary
Age: 10-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 30


 
Food - Fruit Shop
Students repeat the names of the fruits, then they repeat the numbers as prices. Once they can say those words, they practice the dialogue, in which the shopkeeper decides prices, the customer buys 3 items of fruit and the shopkeeper says the total the price. (I have put cherries and strawberries in "packs" as no-one buys "a cherry" or "a strawberr...
Level: elementary
Age: 8-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 3


 
Fighting Fingers Adverbs of Frequency
Fighting Fingers Game. Part of my sets keyed to New Horizon Elementary, a 2021 primary/elementary school English textbook for Japan. Game-play: Two players. One starts at each end. Say todays English (Example: This is my ___.) while moving your finger one space at a time. When the two players fingers meet, they stop and do Rock Scissors Paper. The ...
Level: elementary
Age: 6-100
Type:
Downloads: 10


 
Are you Snoopy? Yes I am / No I�m not.
For beginners. Question + Answer: Are you Snoopy>? Yes, I�m Snoopy> / No, I�m not. ____ 3 activities. Please see teacher�s page (page 6) for detailed lesson plan. Editable. Black and white. Please enjoy. By the way... In Japan we work alongside JTEs (Japanese Teachers of English) just in case you find the teacher�s page confusing.
Level: elementary
Age: 5-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 11


 
Colour and shape cards
9 small shape cards in 10 colours each. Colour word card for each colour listed below in upper and lower case. (diamond, heart, oval, star, square, triangle, hexagon, circle, rectangle) (red, blue, light blue, green, light green, brown, yellow, purple, orange, black). Fully editable. A4 in colour. Please enjoy.
Level: elementary
Age: 3-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 15


 
Word Builder (just like Scrabble)
Word building/ spelling game. Essentially I have re-made something very similar to "Scrabble", but this is a very big version. How to use it: please see instructions in the file. (Pages 1-5) letter tiles; (page 5) instructions and notes; (page 6) the board-game�s board - you print 15 copies and tape them together on the back - very simple and quick...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 36

 

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