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Improve your style - Comment adverbs
Exercises on comment adverbs like "unfortunately, obviously, surprisingly...". Useful for advanced classes and Cambridge FCE and CAE preparation.
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 71
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Modals with the perfect Infinitive
"You should have got up earlier! You needn�t have bought such an expensive present! That must have been a difficult decision." Mr. Clever and Mr. Know-it-all will teach students how to make sentence with modals plus the perfect infinitive. Not difficult, really, once you get a proper explanation.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 26
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Emotions please! - Or: Why was Susan furious at the beach? - Because Tom stole her bikini top!
Pupils must combine two things that apparently have nothing to do with each other (an emotion and a place) and make up a connection between the two. Great fun when played fairly rapidly and when pupils come up with funny and creative answers.
�Why was Tom surprised in the supermarket?� - �Because the milk bottles started talking to him�
�Why was...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 5
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No way !!! - Or: how to make excuses
You are being asked to help someone or to do little jobs. But you don�t want to. So you must find a good excuse �
In groups of four, put one card on the table, think about an excuse quietly for a minute, then each person writes down one excuse. Show the excuses to the others. You then decide on which excuse is the best or most original. Discuss! ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 244
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How to succeed in your Cambridge Exam FCE / CAE
For my new CAE and FCE courses I wrote a worksheet with many long-term tips for exam preparation. Some of the squares look empty in the preview, but they are all full of text. Very weird. -.-.-.-.This sheet is part of a folder of information they are getting right at the beginning. Have a look at my other CAE and FCE materials, too. There are more ...
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 59
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Collocations
An exercise on collocations (adjective-noun and adjective-adverb)that I collected with your help in the forum and from all sorts of different sources. Key and one more exercise on page 2. Thanks for contributing! - By mistake I forgot to take out a bit of German text on page 3. Somehow I can�t update the printable and send a version without it at t...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 49
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CAE and FCE �SPEAKING� Preparation (songtext based) III (Prompts or �cheats� included)
Getting students to speak is often really hard. Getting them to speak to each other in an authentic, lively way is even harder. -- In my CAE and FCE preparation course, I use short extracts from pop songs for this purpose. I chose songs about nature, love, cities, relationships, people�s dreams etc. -- This can be a warming-up exercise, a relaxing ...
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 57
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Stylistic devices -- rhetoric figures -- (3 pages)
Introduction to 15 stylistic devices, from hyperbole to euphemism, from climax to anaphora. _____ Cut this worksheet up and get your students to match the three categories: definitions, examples and the name of the stylistic device. (The order is correct as it is). ____
Print out several copies and make students work in small groups.
It will pro...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 50
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*Vocabulary revision and brainstorming # 2*
3 Pages, Detailed instructions and variations on page 3! ---- Look at yesterday�s worksheet, too! Students play in groups around a table. The above cards name different categories in which they have to find as many words as possible. The first student turns over a card and everybody writes down as many words from this word field as come to their mi...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 22
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*** ODD ONE OUT I ***
Students find the odd word out in a group of five and then have to explain on an abstract level why it doesn�t fit (not a farm animal, not a continent, the only plural word, not part of the leg, no means of transport etc). The real difficulty is NOT finding the odd one out but explaining why it was chosen. Two pages plus key.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-14
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 22
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