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anitarobi
Anita Kovacevic
website Croatia



�Do not tell me the sky is the limit, when there are footprints on the moon.� I�ve been a teacher and teacher trainer for over 25 years. Some of my materials contain my original stories and poetry. If you use them, pls let me know if it worked out well. You can also find my fiction books on Amazon and other sites. blog at https://anitashaven.wordpress.com/

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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


 
animals basic
This is a very elementary level for kids to play with yes,it is and no, it isn�t, as well as some basic adjectives, deciding on the correct answer about animals. Hope it comes in handy.
Level: elementary
Age: 6-9
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 9


 
Arthur and the Minimoys
This is a follow-up worksheet for the movie/cartoon Arthur and the Minimoys. It strengthens vocabulary, and reading and writing skills. My students especially love the fact that the pictures are black-and-white, because they love to colour them later on. Enjoy!
Level: elementary
Age: 8-11
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 24


 
ASSOCIATION GAMES - COCKTAIL NO.4
This is a new set of association games (part 4 in the �cocktail� set) - if you haven�t played them yet, you don�t know what you�re missing. These are games useful as warm-ups, revision, vocab-boosters, with kids and adults, beginners and advanced groups. These are fully editable (and if you check the templates, there are even free ones as ppts), so...
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-17
Type: others
Downloads: 152


 
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


 
association games cocktail no.1
This is part 1 of my Associations Cocktail collection. It contains association games for JOBS, TOWN, TRANSPORT & TRAVELLING. These games are perfect for intermediate and advanced levels, for teenagers and adults, as they motivate speaking, situational language, use of idioms, logical and creative thinking. They are great as ice-breakers, intros int...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 343


 
association games cocktail no.2
This is part 2 of my Associations Cocktail collection. It contains association games for CRIME, LAW, DETECTIVES & AGENTS. These games are perfect for intermediate and advanced levels, for teenagers and adults, as they motivate speaking, situational language, use of idioms, logical and creative thinking. They are great as ice-breakers, intros into t...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 293


 
association games cocktail no.3
This is part 3 of my Associations Cocktail collection. It contains association games for HOUSE, FAMILY & SPORTS. These games are perfect for intermediate and advanced levels, for teenagers and adults, as they motivate speaking, situational language, use of idioms, logical and creative thinking. They are great as ice-breakers, intros into topics, re...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 274


 
ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING - reading practice
This is a text I got from a friend and used it for teenage and adult groups. This plan contains a list of activities to do before, while and after reading: the introductory discussion, listening-reading activity, writing project in pairs and group work, and finally, the vocabulary follow-up activity. I found it very motivating for teenagers and adu...
Level: advanced
Age: 10-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 154


 
AVATAR - movie follow-up worksheet 1
This is the first worksheet (2-pager) based on texts about the movie Avatar. I wasn�t sure whether to put it under intermediate or advanced, but everybody knows their sts best. It�s some vocabulary work and comprehension work as well. I hope you find it useful. (There are 3 worksheets in the collection.)
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 336

 


GRAMMAR ASSOCIATION GAMES
This is a collection of 4 ppt association games (I used my own template - available in the free templates) for grammar revision. Each slide is one game and you can use all games at once to revise some grammar, or one by one as you introduce a certain topic. Hope you find it useful!

Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 190


HALLOWEEN ASSOCIATION GAMES - play and learn
Finally made it - with a little help from a friend, I managed to turn my association games into ppt games. Rules are included, so if you�ve never played - do try. You can do this with all ages and levels. If you like the game, and want to create your own, I�m also uploading a free template.

Level: intermediate
Age: 7-17
Downloads: 186


HOLD MY HAND - song ppt with vocabulary tasks
I know we have many wss with this song already, but I simply couldn�t resist this song, so I made this ppt for my students to sing along with and afterwards do some vocabulary and discussion tasks (also has a ws with lyrics&discussion points, and project ideas for teachers, but can be used separatel...

Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Downloads: 96


HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON - follow-up quiz
This is a follow-up quiz to play after watching How to Train Your Dragon. It has over 20 slides(all not visible in the preview), and each slide contains 2 mistakes in spelling, grammar or data, and, of course, accompanying pics to make it more fun. The final slides are the key and point assessment. ...

Level: intermediate
Age: 8-17
Downloads: 33


jobs ppt - have fun!
This is a short ppt I did with my kids to revise jobs. There�s some multiple choice, some writing, fill-in, etc. You can expand it on the same principle (I had to delete some slides, as it was too large to send)... I hope you find it useful.

Level: elementary
Age: 8-12
Downloads: 30


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


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


magic spells - reading and writing through magic
I created this ppt for a group game where I had mixed teams of preschool and teenage kids. It�s a very simple game of reading and then writing magic spells, using pictures and text. It�s easily printable (I used the printed version), but it�s useful because it makes kids use opposite adjectives (tur...

Level: intermediate
Age: 7-17
Downloads: 15


Past Simple - practical revision
This is a very simple ppt to revise the past simple tense. I used it with my kids and adults, and it was fun because we played it as games(each slide was one game) in 2 teams, and only made notes afterwards. I even used some exercises in a test later on.

Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Downloads: 17


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


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


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


PREPOSITIONS - with rooms and furniture
This is an OE to practise prepositions. It contains several tasks with multiple choice and fill-in, accompanied with simple pictures to help the students. I hope it�s of use to you!

Level: elementary
Age: 4-100


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


Present Perfect with Harry Potter
This exercise is part of moravc�s project on learning grammar with Harry Potter. It is designed to practise the Present Perfect. It has three different tasks. Thanks, dear moravc, for letting me join the project!

Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100


QUESTIONS - yes-no, wh, tags and some fun
This is an OE designed to drill the students in making questions in various tenses - yes-no questions, wh-questions, question tags. There�s a fun teenage youtube video at the end with the �world record� in asking and answering questions. It�s there just for fun and an extra challenge for your studen...

Level: advanced
Age: 12-100


QUESTIONS AND TAGS - AGAIN
Here�s another OE with lots of question-making practise. It is based on interesting, little known facts of life from karmas.korner, which makes a rather dull grammar task more interesting and quite fun. Lots of wh-questions to make and even more question tags! Hope it�s of use!

Level: advanced
Age: 10-100


READ & LEARN - SYNONYMS & WORD FORMATION
This is a vocabulary task based on a poem by F. Letras (with his kind permission) and it contains synonyms, word formation and reading comprehension. I hope you find it useful. The poem has an interesting ending, so you might even use it (for Halloween maybe?) as an open-ended poem with your stodent...

Level: advanced
Age: 12-100


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


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