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Why do we fall in love?
This is an interview concerning a research about how and why we fall in love. The questions for the interview have been removed and scrambled, and students have to match the questions to the corresponding answers. After this task is completed and corrected, students will answer questions expressing their own opinios about the topic. As a follow up,...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 23
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Smartphone privacy
As smartphones become more and more indispensible in our lives, our privacy suffers, because the apps we download, many times for free, request access to information that is often not at all related to the task the app is supposed to perform. This reading activity starts with a warm up conversation about apps and smartphone privacy issues, and then...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 29
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Comparative chart of verb tenses
This chart contrasts the same sentence in different tenses: present simple, present continuous, simple past, Future (will). It is useful when revising basic verb tenses.
Level: elementary
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 17
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Count on me by Bruno Marz
One word in each verse of the lyrics was scrambled; students should be able to unscramble the word by guessing from context what the correct word is. The first letter is always kept in its right place. It is a cute, slow song that can be used even with upper elementary students.
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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What�s this?
Students must guess what the object is by looking at only part of it. As a follow up, students can look for pictures of objects in magazines, cut a part of them out (making sure a hint is left in every picture) and ask their classmates to guess what the objects are.
Level: elementary
Age: 7-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 2
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What is this?
I made this worksheet because I wanted to give a cntext to the question "what is this?" instead of having students only practicing display questions (questions whose answers were obvious). You can either give each student a worksheet, or you can cur out the pictures, paste each one to a numbered card, hang the cards on the walls of the classroom, a...
Level: elementary
Age: 7-11
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 1
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Questions to ask yourself at the turn of the year
This is meant as a conversation guide, containing 20 questions which might be useful in assessing the year that is about to end. The questions can help students to reflect on what went wrong and what went well, at the same time they practice talking about their feelings, opinions, and past events.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 18
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Which season?
Vocabulary and reading activity I created for the last lesson of Kids Web 4, but it can be used whenever seasons is the topic being covered. The objective is to review and develop vocabulary.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-11
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6
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Are you nomophobic?
This is an activity I created to discuss the issue of nomophobia, which is the extreme anxiety some people feel when they don�t have their mobile phones with them. It has become a problem mostly for teenagers, but many adults also suffer from this condition. I hope you find the text useful and thought-provoking.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 52
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A lesson on gratitude
Students often comment on the fact that the verb "take" has several different meanings. While brainstorming idioms, phrases and phrasal verbs with the verb "take", I suggested "take for granted", and my students didn�t know what it meant. I decided to prepare a whole lesson on taking things for granted, but focusing on the opposite option, which...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type:
Downloads: 19
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Christmas symbols
This is an activity to teach or practice Christmas vocabulary (Christmas symbols).
I use it as a game in groups: for each round, we roll the dice and that is the number of points each word will be worth. If, say, they roll the dice and get a seven, they will get seven points if the know the word, m...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Downloads: 17
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