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Easily confused words: will, would, want, would like
An overview of 4 easily confused and misused verb structures: will, would, would like, want.
There are simple exercises to practise the question and negative form of these structures, and then reading comprehensions and questions which use the structures in context.
Answers are provided on p4 of the document.
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 15
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How old is ...? Pairwork information gap activity (Speaking)
Two sheets: sheet A and sheet B. Pupils must take it in turns to ask questions and give answers about the ages of different people and buildings. Also drills he/she/it.
NB: all ages correct in February 2013! The sheet will need to be updated each year if you´re a stickler for accuracy!
Level: elementary
Age: 5-14
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 8
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Staying with a host family (homestay) - interactions practice
Prompt questions for students to practise the kind of interactions they might have when staying with a host family in an English-speaking country. A great way to prepare your learners before an exchange or a summer course in an English-speaking country.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 37
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All conditionals: overview exercises
A gap-fill exercise testing all four conditionals (0, 1st, 2nd, 3rd), followed by an extension exercise on logical connectors and sentence reformulation.
Answers provided on p3.
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 44
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VIDEO comprehension - a new eye operation to cure a form of blindness
A video listening exercise about an exciting new medical procedure. Video is from Sky news on Youtube - the link is on the worksheet.
Exercises are: general comprehension, number comprehension, key vocabulary, free discussion.
Answers provided on second page of document.
Level: advanced
Age: 15-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 16
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Reading comprehension: China bans celebrities´ children from appearing on reality TV shows
Article from BBC News about a ban on Chinese celebrities´ children appearing on TV.
Pre-reading discussion questions and vocabulary, post-reading true/false/not in text questions, vocabulary matching and gap-fill, role-plays based on the text.
Answers are provided.
This would fit into a unit on TV, media, press freedom, celebrities and fame, rig...
Level: advanced
Age: 11-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 62
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Card set to practise pronouncing "s" on plural forms and singular 3rd person verbs
A set of picture and word cards to be matched up. Helps pupils to identify singular and plural noun forms (regular) and practise their pronunciation of these. Also requires pupils to pronounce the "s" on the 3rd person singular form of the verb. I get pupils to match by reading first, then hand out the cards for pupils to read aloud and the holder ...
Level: elementary
Age: 4-10
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 7
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ACT or SAT practice: delete/add text elements (topic: traditional medicine)
An exercise about text comprehension at a deeper level. Readers must decide how deleting a portion of the text would affect the meaning. Other questions ask whether certain elements should be added to the text, and if so, where would be best.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 18
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Mixed grammar exercises: SAT preparation
An article from the LA times adapted into a training exercise for non-native pupils preparing for SATs or similar high-level exams. Exercises cover prepositions, tenses, adjectives/adverbs and identifying sentence errors. Answers can be found by comparing pupils´ choices with the source text (also given in the document).
Level: advanced
Age: 15-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 34
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Geography facts: at / in / to as prepositions of place
To be used to test pupils´ understanding of at/in/to when used as prepositions of place.
It also teaches them some interesting geography facts!
Level: elementary
Age: 7-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 21
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