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 		 Feelings vocabulary
 Students complete the gaps in the sentences, then complete some follow up activities (page two) in pairs to practice dialogues and look at opposites.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 29

 		 Find the people- countries and nationalities activity
 Students complete an activity to match the countries to the flags then write the nationalities. They then, in pairs, play a version of battleships with people "hidden" in their grid to practice asking questions and short answers. Thanks.
Level: elementary
Age: 11-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 5

 		 Future conversation cards
 Conversation prompts to be used with a desk of playing cards. There are two pages. This activity is intended as a review of all future tenses. Cards 2-6 should elicit sentences with will. Card 7 should elicit a sentence with won�t Cards 8-9 should elicit a sentence with �going to� Cards 10 & �jack� should elicit a sentence with the future perfe...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 59

 		 How to avoid apostrophe catastrophes!
 The worksheet uses photos (page 2) of real life mistakes using apostrophes. Students work through the exercises to match the mistakes with the apostrophe rules, thereby discovering some of the rules for apostrophe usage.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 3

 		 Kiss "I was made for loving you"
A gap fill exercise. First, complete the gaps with the words provided. Second, complete the gaps with the correct form of the verb make for passive tense practice. Finally, a discussion about what you were made to do.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: others
Downloads: 8

 		 Listening: British Council podcast: "Charities"
 Instructions: Listen to the British Council magazine podcast �Charities� and answer the questions below about the charities mentioned. The podcast is available online or for mp3 download from: http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/magazine/charities There is a different task available online. Thanks.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 21

 		 Listening: Clip from Friends- gap fill
 A short listening activity with the following clip from Friends: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_ESeEZD_OY The clip is only 2:30 minutes, so I used this as a warmer for my class, before talking about how friends support us and then going on to talk about affixes, with the word "friend" as a starter. Thanks.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: others
Downloads: 18

 		 Music: People should smile more- Newton Faulkner
 Nice song for all ages. Thanks.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 15

 		 Paraphrasing: worksheet and game
 Page 1 is a worksheet to introduce paraphrasing structures. Page 2 has a dominoes game for students to practice the phrases. Thanks, Elise
Level: elementary
Age: 7-10
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 16

 		 Passive voice- newspaper article
 A lesson plan for a reading exercise looking at the passive voice. The article is from the Daily Mail newspaper (UK) about the arrest of a TV soap opera star. The lesson plan focusses on the usage of the passive rather than structure and form. Thanks.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 84

 

Make and do
 A simple presentation to elicit the phrases for make and do, to illustrate the rules at a basic level. Thanks.

Level: elementary
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 43

Modal verbs
 A presentation with examples (and notes with details) about modals for: 1. Ability and possibility 2. Degrees of probability 3. Polite requests/permission/prohibition 4. Suggestions and advice Thanks and hope it helps.

Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 33

Past expressing present or future time
 A powerpoint slide outlining the use of past tenses with a present or future meaning for: I wish/If only Second conditional As if/as though It�s (about/high) time There are some practice activities at the end. Thanks

Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 18

Present Time: present simple, present perfect and present continuous review
 Updated powerpoint. Students recall present tenses, then look at the images to write present tense sentences. The notes on the powerpoint include notes as to the usage of the correct tense.

Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 12

Pronunciation: word formation- suffixes
 A powerpoint linked to this one: http://www.eslprintables.com/powerpoint.asp?id=47827#this Powerpoint reviews syllables and stressed syllables before looking at the pronunciation changes made by certain suffixes (as in the powerpoint) above. Thanks

Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 43

Relative clauses
 A power point presentation about relative clauses, using Vincent van Gogh as the concept. This was created for an upper intermediate class, so some of the language might need to be re-graded for lower levels. The presentation includes defining and non-defining relative clauses. Thanks.

Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 28

Reported speech
 A presentation about reported speech including: - introductory verbs - tense changes and no tense changes - pronoun changes - changes to place and time - modal verbs - reported questions - indirect commands & requests & suggestions Thanks.

Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 9

Reported speech: Introductory verbs of reporting
 A powerpoint with a quick review to reported speech, followed by introductory verbs of reporting (agree, insist etc.) and the verb patterns with which they are used. Thanks.

Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 76

Sentence stress
 A presentation reviewing stressed and unstressed words to improve listening comprehension and pronunciation. Thanks.

Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 50

So and Such for emphasis/extremes
 A presentation with examples showing when we use so and such for emphasis and extremes.

Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 17

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