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Paraphrasing Practice Packet
4 Pgs/4 Actvts to practice 5 paraphrasing techniques involving synonyms, sentence types, changing clauses to phrases, alternating voice, and manipulating parts of speech. Packet can be used with Paraphrasing Guidelines as a reference or reminder. Was most useful in my Academic Skills and Business English classes! (Intermediate students will need MU...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 44
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Paraphrasing Guidelines
Text that reviews guidelines for conducting successful paraphrasing in the foreign language. Best used as a pre-reading for relevant activities with authentic material or Paraphrasing Practice Worksheets.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 40
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What is Register?: Description and Practice (Adv)
Advanced students learn about the importance of different registers or styles of speaking/writing English. The worksheet reminds them what elements can reflect a change in register (including vocabulary selection and pronunciation). After the review, students practice by labeling 3 letters as Casual, Formal, and Informal. This worksheet leads direc...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 14
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Student Instructions: Community Interviewing Activity
Activity Card to guide students through an independent interview activity with native/near-native speakers of other languages. It helps them prepare for the task, complete the task (with questions about a topic of personal interest to them or related to your theme-based units), and prepare a written report at the end of their adventure. If your stu...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 10
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Personal SWOT Analysis (Int+)
Students evaluate their own performance and abilities in Professional English by considering how 4 aspects will affect their language improvement (in or out of class): their own current strengths and weaknesses; possible learning opportunities and threats. I love raising student�s self-awareness and encouraging learner autonomy!:-)
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 10
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Referents: a Review and Worksheet (Int-Adv)
This worksheet includes a summary table of all the English pronouns and determiners. Then students practice filling in blanks in a story and a conversation by selecting the best referents to keep the texts cohesive. Students will find that some incorrect answers may seem to work but will change the meaning of the text to the point where it just bec...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 9
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5 Love Song Fill-Ins: Worksheet set
A set of student worksheets for 5 classic love songs. Each song is used to focus on a single grammar element: prepositions, pronouns, adjectives, contractions, and verb tenses/moods. You play the song or video and the students fill in the blanks. These worksheets can also be used with beginning students if you give them a word bank and/or have them...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7
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Interview Guidelines (a refresher)...
Text that reviews guidelines for conducting successful interviews in the foreign language. Best used as a pre-reading for interactive class activities.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 7
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You Understand More Than You Think
A video/dictation activity designed to quantifiable test listening comprehension and help build the student�s confidence in their listening abilities. Many of my upper-intermed and advanced students still worry about catching every word while they listening, but this activity usually shows them that their brains are catching more than they think. T...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 4
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Articles: Strategy Guide and Practice (int+)
Students can follow the Strategy Guide to decide when to use articles to modify noun phrases. They can also use the 4 questions to check their articles while editing their written work. This download includes a news report with all the articles removed and students fill in the blanks to practice using the articles and the Guide. Usually, during my ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 3
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