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spinney
Dale
United Kingdom



I�m a Brit living in Spain teaching English because that�s all I could find over here. I like it though. I also upload my worksheets on ISL Collective, normally a day or two after I have done so here. br You can order my books by pasting this into the browser: https://www.amazon.es/Dale-Bates/e/B08QD5M5PQ?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1613573760&sr=8-1

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Strengths and Weaknesses - Appliances: Hyphenated Adjectives
A short worksheet with technology as the main theme but with hyphenated adjectives, positive, neutral, and negative, as the vocab and grammar practice backdrop. There are several ways on how to teach this, pre-teaching the vocab, or reading aloud and fielding question on the vocab. Perhaps a few rules on how to use hyphens, too. And finally, pair w...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
Type:
Downloads: 30


 
Irregular Plurals
A short pictorial worksheet on irregular plurals. The answers are on the back. RIP Resitas and his Cu�ando
Level: elementary
Age: 11-100
Type:
Downloads: 28


 
Travel Agent Complaint Dice Game
Select two speakers, one orange and the other green. They throw a dice first and then speak the line that corresponds with the number. The speakers move through the list alphabetically. After they finish, another couple start. When everyone has finished, compare how different the conversation was in content but how similar in context. Different n...
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 112


 
Invitation Dice Game
Select two speakers. The speakers move through the list alphabetically. They throw a dice for each letter and then speak the line that corresponds with the number. After they finish, another couple start. When everyone has finished, compare how different the conversation was in content but how similar in context.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 44


 
The Leicester Balloon Riot of 1864
A short article on the infamous Leicester balloon riot of 1864 done in the style of part 1 of Reading and Use of English for the FCE exam. The answers are on the back.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type:
Downloads: 12


 
Wireless Charging Stations for Electric Cars: CAE reading and debate
An adapted reading from a green website about wireless charging stations for electric cars. There is then a debate with personality cards. Answers at the back and reading is done in the style of the CAE exam reading and use of English part 1. There are additional pairwork cards for those of you that teach engineers. The engineers can work together ...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type:
Downloads: 74


 
Restaurant Booking Game and Role-Play
Pre-teach necessary vocabulary for reserving tables in restaurants and then divide your class into pairs and have them do the dice games together. Once they have practised the fixed expressions in the dice game 6 times they can then act out the role-plays.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 142


 
What does it mean? 1
A confusing little quiz for students that speak Romance languages. Some false friends and some cognates as well as some of the more mundane but not so well known words in common usage. Answer key provided. Have fun!
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 26


 
Confusing Telephone Messages
Pre-teach linking, elision and perhaps a session on homophones and oronyms before the activity. Print out the cards, laminate and cut out. First, give them the blue dialogue cards and ask for a volunteer. Tell the volunteer to read only the dialogues for speaker number 1. You then read out speaker number 2 and select one of the message cards. ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 22


 
Phrasal Verbs about Health and Safety
A shorter than usual worksheet on Health and Safety. I plan to use this with shop-floor workers at a large manufacturing plant. Normally I use 18 phrasal verbs but I opted for just 12 with this one. However, there is the usual mix and match, bingo, online quiz (see below and on the worksheet), a text, gapfill, card game, and a short debate to cap i...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type:
Downloads: 45

 

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What does it mean? 1
A short exercise to test correct use of vocabulary, some of which are false cognates, some of which are cognates.

Level: intermediate
Age: 11-100