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Irregular verbs
I have just done this to try and help a friend�s child learn irregular verbs (she�s having difficulties). It�s an alternative to learning from static lists,hopefully advantageous for kinesthetic types of learners who like to move things about and simply an alternative way of pracrising. The sheets should be duplicated twice. One set should be lamin...
Level: elementary
Age: 11-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 19
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Describe, compare and contrast_1
Using the visual impulse, an exercise in describing what you see (present simple and present continuous), using the imagination (as to the place/time-with justifcation),expressing similarities and differences. A word bank is given to provide help with the specific vocabulary.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 39
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The future
Sentences using the various future tenses. Students are asked to choose the right form of the verb. A short description of usage is given for each form. This is meant as a revision aid.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 27
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Speak for a minute 2
Laminate and cut the sheet into strips. Give each student a strip. The students have to each talk for a minute on their subject starting with the given lead-in (not stating the theme). The rest of the group try to guess the title of the given speech. (Idea taken from Keep Talking by F. Klippel)
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 153
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A preposition poem
I�ve tried to use the most common prepositions in a "fun-way" i.e. in the form of a poem with a rhyme every second line.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 23
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Mr Busy has been married a year now! (Present / present perfect)
A gap fill execise focusing on the present and present perfect tenses meant for adult beginners or as a revision sheet for all intermediate students. Mr Busy�s routine is still (more or less) the same but now he does it all with his wife. Find out what has changed and what things have stayed the same. The verbs are provided in boxes for each para...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 146
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Clothes and Gadgets. A very expensive matter.
Do teenagers today have expensive tastes? How much do the clothes and accessories of the average teenager amount to? Parents are being put under pressure to provide for their children�s "needs" who, in turn, are becoming victims of crime. An information sheet about the problem with activities and questions on, and beyond, the text.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 53
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Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
An authentic news text about one of life�s mysteries. Language focus on prepositions, comparisons, synonyms. The exercises could/ should be done at different times, i.e. not in the same lesson - recycling - thereyby using the same text at a later date with a different focus.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 120
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A "chickini" for bald hens
Whilst in some countries battery farming is already illeagl, it�s still widely used as a method in the egg industry in Britain. Knitters have been asked to knit a warm covering for those birds which have been rescued, (completely bald), from a farm in the south of England. Discussion questions as well as language exercises and a comparison with the...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 23
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Conversation cards (9) MAMO present continuous focus
Another set of MAMO cards - this time the focus is on the present continuous.
Level: elementary
Age: 10-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 78
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