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THE FIFTH ELEMENT
This is a worksheet you can use while and after watching The Fifth Element. It is only one page, but it actually contains several exercises to encourage vocablary retention, develop imagination and make the students actually forget about grammar rules and get into the story. It is also fun to do with a student partner or to use as a guide for a gro...
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 54
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CREATIVE WORKSHOP - tell the tale
These are the basic principles which guide me in most of my creative workshops and discussions. It offers very little printable materials to sts (you can even get away with none), but gives them lots of hints, preparatory work and ideas. It teaches them to think, organize their ideas and argument their thoughts. The principle can be applied in many...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 107
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ALPHABET WORKSHOP - fun with vocabulary on all levels
Hi, dear colleagues! Long time, no see. Here�s my small contribution for the new year. It�s a multi-page collection of activities you can apply to all age groups and all levels. It�s fun and motivates your sts to expand vocabulary and use it in speaking and writing activities. It contains instructions, wordcharts and wss, and some game and project ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 205
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certificates for students
This is a collection of 8 different types of certificates to be handed out to students on different occasion for that little bit of extra motivation. I�ve used free cliparts and my own drawings. This is my first collection of this kind. I hope you find it useful. (Btw, each certificate has been grouped for easier compression and to prevent pics fro...
Level: elementary
Age: 5-17
Type: others
Downloads: 189
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Mary Poppins
Who would have guessed modern kids would love Mary Poppins?! Just goes to show you never can tell until you try. My elementary students loved the movie, the songs, the worksheet, the movie word games... They all tried to snap their fingers to tidy up their rooms, too (it didn�t work though)... If you try this, please, let me know how it went.
Level: elementary
Age: 6-9
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 54
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FANTASY LAND - MYTHICAL BEASTS - PART 2
This is only part of a project I prepared for my after-holiday workshop with students about mythical beasts and magical creatures. After spending half the day reducing it in every possible way, I simply had to split it into parts. So - this is part 2 of the project about mythical beasts (There is also part 1- text tables for this project, and part ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-14
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 51
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Batman Begins
This is a follow-up activity for the movie Batman Begins. The first part briefly checks their understanding of the story, but they very much enjoy the second part, and I got some great ideas and essays from my students on that topic.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 17
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SILLY ENGLISH & MOVIE QUOTES - error correction
These are 2 wss which may be used together as one or as 2 separate wss. One deals with problems with wrong translations of rules and signs in hotels etc., and the other one deals with movie quotes with hidden mistakes. Both wss require error corrections, which turns sts into teachers, which is always fun for them. Key is included. (These wss can be...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 36
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AN IMAGINARY PLANET - reading, speaking and writing project for intermediate students
This is a ws I made for my intermediate students (9-10 yrs old) with a reading text about an imaginary planet, a speaking task about Earth and a creative writing task about a planet they invent. For me it�s follow-up for a text about space and astronauts in Chatterbox 4, but it doesn�t have to be linked to it. There�s also a matching ppt available....
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-12
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 77
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WORD PUZZLE - a fun way to expand advanced vocabulary
This is a fun way to deal with word formation and vocabulary expansion when working with advanced sts. It contains instructions and materials for 4 activities which follow each other during the course of the lesson, but can also be used separately. You can apply the same principle to any vocabulary you choose, and it starts from words and expands i...
Level: advanced
Age: 10-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 116
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children�s play - THE UGLY DUCKLING
This is the children�s play I wrote on the basis of the original story. It�s made to suit the needs of my groups(we did a play and a puppet show with it), so I added a few characters (couldn�t load their pics, sorry, too large a format. They absolutely loved it, and so did the parents, especially be...
Level: elementary
Age: 7-10
Downloads: 156
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LIMERICK RIDDLES
This is a ppt with some limerick riddles I made - to add to my limerick collection of worksheets as I find limericks so much fun and highly effective. This one contains 6 limerick riddles on no specific topic, and a dare in the end. I hope you and your students enjoy limericks!
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 98
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Ever seen this woman?
Not one of my most colourful activities, but the lesson I had using this ppt turned out to be one of the most powerful and memorable experiences with teenagers. I had been looking for an interesting, unlike-typical-school history text to do with kids, when this text came to me via e-mail and stunned...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 58
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THE RAINBOW IN THE STONE
This is a story I wrote for my younger students, based on leprechaun legends and the mention of the Blarney stone. (I�ve used Ph. Martin�s free cliparts images.)I hope you find it useful and fun. At the end of the story I�ve prepared an association game (using my own template, available in the free ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 5-100
Downloads: 36
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THE SNOW QUEEN - intermediate project
This is a ppt based on the storynory.com text (link for text and audio provided). I made it for my intermediate students. It contains the part of the story till Kay is taken by the Snow Queen (with pics) and from then on there are tasks for sts to guess what happens next, etc. It can be used with ma...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Downloads: 57
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PEOPLE IN THE PRESENT - present tenses and describing people
This ppt is prepared for adults (but can be used with teenagers as well) who still have problems with describing people and deciding when to use the Present Simple or when to use the Present Continuous. It drills the difference with practical picture descriptions, also expanding their vocabulary ban...
Level: elementary
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 66
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advanced levels - practice (CAE)
This is a ppt I used for my CAE group. It is made up from various exercises from books, free website practice and experience. It requires writing, speaking and English in use, but every 2-3 slides, there�s a short pop-word game to break the drill routine and stimulate the brain. I hope you find use ...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 158
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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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SPEAK UP -guided intermediate and advanced speaking practice
Here�s a ppt I made for my FCE students to practise describing pictures. It contains several slides with �props� to guide them, inspire them, make them use some vocabulary and be creative. I hope you find it useful.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 1044
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THE SNOW QUEEN (poem) - creative writing ppt
Adding this to my Snow Queen project, I�ve created this ppt for my advanced groups based on a poem by F. Letras (with his permission - thanks, Frank). It contains a poem inspired by the Snow Queen story, two vocabulary task slides and a creative writing task which can be done individually or in pair...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 49
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FISHING FUN
This is an OE based on a fun/funny dialogue between two boys about fishing (thank you, Frank, for your kind permission to use your text). It contains a reading task, two fun fishing videos, a preposition and a vocabulary task. I hope you find it useful and enjoy the dialogue.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
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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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ON THE BEACH - beach, ocean, summer, and grammar!
This is a revision OE with tasks to practise have got, prepositions, ocean vocabulary, prepositions and there is/are. It�s filled with beach and ocean pics and vocabulary, so it can be done for fun even during the summer break.
Level: elementary
Age: 7-100
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DRAGONS
I created this OE with my son in mind. (His English level is not yet there, but I�m hoping the topic will inspire him!) The exercise contains several tasks - a T/F one, two reading tasks with comprehension and fill-in and a listening task with the theme song of a dragon movie. There are pics and ani...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100
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PIRATE FUN
I made this OE for my students to do before or during their summer holidays. It�s a wordsearch, vocabulary task and riddles about pirates and their equipment. It�s also available as a printable, without the interactive options. I love pirate stories, so I have made several materials about this topic...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-100
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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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LIFE CHALLENGES
Our very own Victoria-ladybug posted this video in the cafe and I just wanted to make sth with it so it inspired me to make my first OE. It doesn�t focus on one particular grammar or vocabulary point, but it�s good for discussing problems, giving advice (should...) and motivating. The video is about...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
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FANTASY LAND -PART ONE
I made this OE to accompany my Fantasy Land project (5 wss available with posters, projects and games). I prepared this for my after-holiday workshop, to step back into English, but not immediately into our coursebooks. It�s more fun and basic culture than grammar, but I love sneaking vocabulary in ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-14
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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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EMELI SANDE -CLOWN
The song is just too beautiful to miss. There are some follow-up vocabulary and comprehension tasks with Sande�s biography and explanation for the song. I hope your students enjoy it.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
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