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Fractured Ghost Story
This is a creative writing task. It can be extended into a speaking task as well if students are asked to retell thier ghost stories (this can be a lot of fun if the atmosphere is good ie, sitting in a circle, lights dimmed etc.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 12
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The Crocodile - Roald Dahl (reading writing activity)
This is a great activity for students to use prediction to piece together a famous poem. First work with the verses and then with the lines in each verse. If you have access, students can check their answers using the youtube link. After, students are to write two verses in the same structure.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 28
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Accidentally in Love - Counting Crows
This is not just a listening task - this is a reading task as well using a concert advertisment for Counting Crows. My students love this as it gives the task some authenticity. The listening task is not only a cloze passage but offers practice in editing, and listening for sequence. There are two links to you tube here so that you have a audio-vis...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 70
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Advertisement - Sports Bar
This is a speaking task as well - students need to present/pitch their advertisement to the rest of the class. This is great as a group work activity but is equally effective done individually. Included are marking rubrics for both speaking and writing sections.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 26
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future
read and practice the future
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 9
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The Backpacker
This is a great activity to help readers infer tone from a text. It generates a lot of discussion.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 8
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Listening - Here if You Want, The Waifs
Not just a cloze passage, activities encourage active listening. This also includes a reading task - a recent festival poster featuring the Waifs and other bands; lyric comprehension and incident understanding - i used the live version featured on their Brief History album which has an audience and a mobile phone. Its great for accents - my student...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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Listening - Hannah Montana - Life�s What You Make It
My students loved this task. After working on the listening task (more than a cloze passage) they had to analyse the lyrics. Hope you enjoy this as much as my students did.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 10
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Robert Pattinson Stinks!
This works well with difficult to motivate teens. It generates plenty of discussion. It engages because students are interested enough to read for detail. It works well for pre-intermediate too, good for practice.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 31
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Fairy Tale
The classes I have worked this task with have loved it. They have really twisted the fairy tale and presented using costumes etc - they were fully engaged. It is a great confidence builder, fosters creative thinking and problems solving skills as well as allows students to use the language. It can be used for lower intermediate students too. It was...
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 7
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