Beach surprise - past simple vs past continuous
Based on Project 4 WB, this exercise helps students to recognize typical time words and use narrative tenses (past simple, past continuous).
Level: elementary
Age: 12-100
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Hotel reservation e-mail
Two gap-fill activities with a sampe task + vocabulary extension. Based on Business Vision Intermediate, Unit 7 and http://www.zimbio.com/. I prefer doing this after writing the task to offer other samples and possibly upgrade vocabulary and grammar structures.
Key to collocation task which I cou...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
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Active to passive: Present Simple or Past Simple (based on New English File Pre-intermediate, 7D)
Pre-intermediate gap-fill exercise. Focus on singular / plural, past / present and the third form of the main verb.
Level: elementary
Age: 12-100
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Lifestyles - simple present (+ / short answers / ?)
In English Starter (OUP) Unit 17 adapted, based on Reading SB p. 85.
A good way to introduce present simple. Communicative exercises added. Enjoy.
Level: elementary
Age: 14-100
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Project 2 Unit 1 Test correction
This OE is to practice after Unit 1 test correcting mistakes.
Level: elementary
Age: 10-100
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Vowel sounds with pictograms 4
Based on New English File (OUP) vowel sounds chart this exercise helps students with memorising the right pronunciation of IPA symbols with easy pictograms.
Level: elementary
Age: 10-100
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Supposing in conditionals
When teaching conditionals, exercises for certain structures are difficult to find. This paraphrase exercise is aimed at one of these areas. Easy, short and managable. Can be extended.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
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Vowel sounds with pictograms 1
Based on New English File (OUP) vowel sounds chart this exercise helps students with memorising the right pronunciation of IPA symbols with easy pictograms.
Level: elementary
Age: 10-100
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Step Ahead 2, Module 7, self-check in test format
This test includes:
question words (how far? how long? What time? When?)
second forms of regular / irregular verbs
simple past (time expressions, guided writing)
shapes (+ -shaped, -shape)
every day mini-dialogues
means of transport (definitions)
numbers, dates (cardinal / ordinal)
weather f...
Level: elementary
Age: 11-100
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Visit to a national park
This is a B1 level informal e-mail about my midsummer visit to a national park. After each paragraph students find some grammatical help, but encourage them not to use them first, only for the concept check.
They can also write an informal e-mail about a similar visit for the next class.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
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