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ASSOCIATION GAMES - part 3
Here is my third set of association games. For those of you who haven�t played it before, rules are included as well. This set contains 12 association games and some empty ones for your sts or you to make. This is so much fun to play, so useful, covers any topic you want and sts all ages love it. Have fun!
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-17
Type: others
Downloads: 53
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baby, baby, it�s a wild world
I just heard this song on the radio and it was irresistible. I�ve prepared a worksheet with song lyrics (jumbled), and idioms and synonyms with �wild�. I�m going to use it with my advanced students, to take a lighter turn on the topic of safety in cities we�ve done recently. Hope you find it useful...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 24
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SINBAD - Legend of the 7 Seas
This is a collection of activities(2 games and memory cards) and a comprehension ws for Sinbad - Legend of the 7 Seas(voices by Brad Pitt, Catherine Zeta Jones, Michelle Pfeiffer). It�s a pirate cartoon; great, really fun, funny and tense, full of giant sea monsters, pirate traps, romance, friendship, etc. All my sts loved it (even the high schoole...
Level: elementary
Age: 6-12
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 176
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SUMMER DIARY - lots of fun stuff to do
I actually made this in my mother tongue for my son, and then I thought why not do it in English as well - it�s sort of a scrapbook/diary of experiences, books, events, fun.... everything a child goes through during the summer, along with some fun word-bank activities. It�s goal is to inspire imagination and creativity and give the child a sense of...
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-17
Type: Choose
Downloads: 100
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Mamma mia - lyrics worksheet
A great, fun and optimistic song - just perfect for these difficult times! And Abba lyrics are full of useful idioms you can teach your kids. It goes great with the movie and kids like it, especially teenagers. Have fun and sing!
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 4
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all tenses, active.passive, conditionals
A brief 2-page review of all tenses, active, passive and conditionals. It can be used for revision, looking for similarities and differences between tenses, or for a class poster. My students call it �all in one�. I�ve been using it for years.
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: grammar-guide
Downloads: 193
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HOW TO SAY GOODBYE TO YOUR STS AT THE END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR?
We all try to prepare sth special for our students at the end of the school year. You might want to try doing something like this - a special message with a special text... Here is my suggestion!
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Type: others
Downloads: 334
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How babies are born and other questions? - project
This lesson plan and project were inspired by a forum post by yetigumboots about �The Middle Wife�. It has inspired a whole series of projects (this being the 1st one) based on language misunderstandings and kids� special language use and understanding �grown-up� concepts. This project was created to sort of connect and intertwine several age group...
Level: intermediate
Age: 6-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 50
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THE SPIRIT LAKE SEA MONSTER - reading project
This is a reading project based on a legend about a monster I found on the internet. I linked it to the topic of myths and legends, so apart from the text, there are notes for teachers with tasks for sts and a follow-up project. I used it as follow-up for the movie The Water Horse (I strongly recommend the movie - a wonderful family story, fairly n...
Level: advanced
Age: 10-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 50
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TENSES - revision test for intermediate kids
This is a short tense revision test for Present Simple and Continuous, Past Simple and Going-to-Future... It covers statements, negatives and questions; it just doesn�t look that serious.
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-14
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 23
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ELEMENTARY REVISION GAMES - kids� level 1
This is a ppt I use at the end of school year with my level 1 school kids - we revise all material through this ppt and we play it as games in 2-3 teams. It covers many topics (alphabet, he/she, colours, numbers, city places...) and it�s really fun to do.
Level: elementary
Age: 7-11
Downloads: 58
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PIRATE�S TREASURE - fun summer story with pre, during and post-reading fun
This ppt is based on the story Pirate�s Treasure(the link is included because the online version also contains audio files). It�s a fun short story for children, and the ppt has an activity to do before reading, lots of discussion stuff to do while reading and fun challenges for after reading. I hop...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-14
Downloads: 126
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PRESENT PERFECT WITH HARRY POTTER
Here�s a Present Perfect game based on the HP stories - another addition to moravc�s project. I hope you find it fun and useful. (When you get the answer right, a magical creature appears:)).
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 87
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SUMMER GAMES - fun stuff before summer vacation
This is a collection of activities which can be played as games before the summer vacation, concerning summer, sea animals and clothes. there�s even a story included, so that activities range from writing and memorising to reading and speaking. Each slide is one game, and its key is shown at the bot...
Level: elementary
Age: 8-14
Downloads: 386
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THE SNOW QUEEN - advanced project
This is a ppt I prepared for my advanced groups based on 7 parts of a long version of the story. The ppt contains some pre, while and post reading tasks for all the chapters, but is basically meant to be used with the worksheet available here http://www.eslprintables.com/printable.asp?id=477995#thet...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 53
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ASSOCIATION GAMES TEMPLATE - free and you can actually play it!
Dear colleagues, I�ve been trying to make a ppt in which you can actually play association games, but kept having problems. Then a friend gave me such a simple idea and, as all simple ideas - it worked superbly. So, as promised in the forum, here�s a free template with rules and an example game. I h...
Level: elementary
Age: 3-17
Downloads: 0
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THE SNOWFLAKE AND THE RING - interactive story for kids
This story was inspired and commissioned from me by my son. It�s a fairytale with parts which are unfinished, so you need to interact with your sts to get them to complete it. I�ve tried it with various age groups and levels, andit really works. It�s fun and creative and expands their vocabulary...
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-12
Downloads: 39
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JUDGING BY APPEARANCES - educational and motivational
This ppt (and a corresponding ws) were inspired by Lucia13 who posted this wonderful text in our ESL cafe not long ago. Since I�m covering describing people with my teenagers, this is just the perfect icing on the cake to teach them to see past the surface. It�s designed for speaking and reading. I ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 221
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CHANGING OUR WORLD - children�s motivational story
Here�s my contribution to Frank�s project for the children. It�s a story inspired by his poem Global Warming, and it�s meant to motivate children to change things. It�s simple reading with three motivational tasks as follow-up. The ppt includes the story and Frank�s poem. Thanks, Frank, for the moti...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Downloads: 38
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Comparison with Harry Potter
This is a short ppt game to practise comparatives and superlatives to describe the characters from Harry Potter. (Another adition to moravc�s project) There�s also a ws and an OE available. I hope it�s useful!
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-17
Downloads: 76
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TEDDYBEARS - PRESENT CONTINUOUS AND A STORY
This is a simple OE for elementary students to practise some Present Continuous (two tasks, all with animated teddies, followed by a story in rhyme with a fill in task and a challenge. I hope you like the story.
Level: elementary
Age: 6-12
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THE KISS THAT MISSED
This is an OE I made based on my ws for the story The Kiss that Missed (by D. Melling). It�s a funny fairytale with a synonyms task before reading, and the story from a youtube video with follow-up questions (Present and Past Simple).
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-12
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JOKES AND PAST SIMPLE - practice
This is a simple OE to revise or practise the Past Simple. There is a task to practise regular and irregular past forms, a fill-in task with kids� jokes and a task with short past simple answers. I hope it�s of use to you.
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100
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SHERLOCK HOLMES
My students love Sherlock Holmes, and this is part of our project - reading stories about him, watching videos and working with the language. This is hopefully only the first of my OEs on the topic - contains a word formation task and a synonyms task connected to a video. Hope you find it useful!
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
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NIGHT LIKE THIS - ROMANCE
This is a simple exercise based on the song �Night Like This� by C. Emerald, with a listening task, vocabulary and writing tasks with adjectives and a short rhyming task with a silly love song at the end. I hope you like it.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
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WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
This is a revision exercise I created for elementary students about jobs. It has several tasks, including a limerick at the end (which you may have to help them read, but limericks are great for rhythm). I hope you and your students find it useful and fun.
Level: elementary
Age: 6-11
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REPORTED SPEECH WITH HARRY POTTER
Another addition to our Grammar with HP project - started by moravc. This one, in addition to the ws, deals with direct and indirect speech. I hope you find it useful.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
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CONDITIONALS WITH HARRY POTTER
This is an OE with four different types of conditionals (from zero to third) and a fun video/audio challenge at the end, based on Harry Potter stories. It�s another addition to moravc�s project on learning grammar with Harry Potter. I hope you find it useful!
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
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SHERLOCK HOLMES 2
This is the second part of my Holmes OE series. This one contains two tasks - the first one is a multiple choice task with info on Holmes from Wikipedia, and the second one is an open cloze based on listening to the words from the given TV-series trailer. I hope it�s useful to you.
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
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PREPOSITIONS in idioms and phrases
This is my third OE. The graphics are simple, but it will be useful for my FCE students to revise some idioms and phrasal verbs. The tasks are fill-ins. I hope you find it helpful.
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
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