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Singapore: super trees - video and text comprehension
For the topic �space and exchange� - a video about green space in Singapore followed by two articles from which learners must extract key points. Final exercise offers some open-ended discussion questions. Would be well suited to small group work or homework. (Answers to the video comprehension are provided on the last page of the document.)
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 24
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Commas to separate sentence elements
Guide dealing with how to use commas to separate sentence elements and to separate items in a list. Final exercise is a paragraph which the students need to add the commas into.
Answers are provided on page 3.
(Does not cover restrictive and non-restrictive clauses.)
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: grammar-guide
Downloads: 30
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Reading skills: space tourism
Text about space tourism with exercises designed to improve reading skills: identifying what pronouns refer to, finding definitions in the text, considering the significance of tenses. Final exercise requires readers to answer classic comprehension questions having completed the warm-up exercises. 2 writing tasks are also suggested. Answers provide...
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 142
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Freerunning (parkour) - short video and questions
A short video about children learning freerunning in their school gym class.
Exercises are: pre-video discussion questions, watch and answer "w" questions, watch and answer detailed questions (e.g. gap fill).
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 15
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Participles used as adjectives: cards
A set of adjectives ending in -ed or -ing for students to use to create random sentences. Good plenary or warm-up activity.
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100
Type:
Downloads: 10
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Role plays / Situation cards: a holiday in an English-speaking country
A set of 12 situations which a visitor might encounter on a visit to an English-speaking country. To stimulate role-play and "survival English".
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 173
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News article and questions: Man hit by six meteorites is being targeted by aliens
Reading with vocabulary, comprehension and wider discussion questions on the topic of space and aliens.
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-100
Type: article
Downloads: 33
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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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Easily confused words: back, again, re-, more
An overview of the subtle differences between back, again, re- and more. These are illustrated through examples and are to be practised with exercises. Answers provided on the last page.
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
Type:
Downloads: 10
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SAT-style critical reading / reading comprehension / identifying sentence errors on a text about an 1895 archaeological expedition
Text from Project Gutenberg. Exercises following SAT model: 1) identifying sentence errors and 2) critical reading. Answers also provided.
Level: advanced
Age: 15-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 30
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