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Biography Versus Autobiography
Students broaden vocabulary, expand research skills, collect information on a subject and use the information to write a biographical text on him or her.
Work on an explicit language base to write an extended text using the scaffold.
They should be encouraged to use visuals to illustrate their story and to present it to the class as a PP presen...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
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Barak Obama Speech 2004 Dems convention Listening activity with MC questions
This is an activity based on the 2004 Barak Obama speech to the democrats convention. He speaks clearly and well. Plus there are two or three commentators on his speech. It is a good activity to spring board into persuasive language and easy listening with the use of repetition illustrated well in the text.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
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Simply Similes
These activities are for students to broaden their usage of English Language items and to successfully construct sentences using common similes used in English.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
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WRITING A MOVIE REVIEW
For the upper intermediate student to give them the structure and content required for a movie review.
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
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Growing up Asian in Australia
This group of activities includes an analysis text of the Short Story by Diana Nuygen 5 Ways to Disappoint Your Mother and allows ESL students who are studying at a higher level access to some important issues around family values and the culture clash of expectations inherent in a westernised civilisation.
I will be posting a comparative study w...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
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Starting Opinion Writing Activity
This is an activity designed for students with an Upper Intermediate to Advanced level of English. Student that received this exercise had already spent some weeks on exposition writing. It should help transition to mainstream students learn to express an opinion effectively and use supporting arguments for the Topic Sentence.
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
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Writing a Narrative with a picture prompt
This activity focuses on narrative structure and allowing students to explore inner dialogues, writing in first person or third person POV. Imaginative writing and having fun with words.
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-100
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The Industrial Revolution Worksheets
Helping students to access text for the Industrial Revolution
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
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Downloads: 11
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Template for a movie review
Focus: Structure of the Movie Review. Teacher needs to prompt students with phrases using an actual review or indeed taking a movie and working on the sheet together. Focus on simple language and clarity of expression. elicit responses from students about movies they have seen and get them to write sentences about the movie. Make it a living active...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-14
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The Stranger Listening Assessment 1
This worksheet is to assist students with their listening comprehension, with a cloze and it has some short answer questions plus a longer writing task.
It is on the first two chapters of The Stranger and there will be more worksheets to follow on The Stranger which will become more challenging as the students move through the story. The text is o...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
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Downloads: 14
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