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Antonio Oliver

Spain



teaching English in Spain

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My fair lady - opening scenes
Play the sequence, with or without subtitles, then do the drills. Additional singing/dubbing can prepare the class for a debate on why we should speak correctly, national/regional speech patterns, etc
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 16


 
role-play: O.R.
This gets students really excited, some even have an argument. An old role-play, admittedly not my idea!
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 37


 
Verb + object + infinitive
A classic syntax problem addressed in a (hopefully) fun way
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 50


 
photo talk
My students found this cheat-sheet quite useful to practise the photo description task in the ubiquitous Cambridge exam
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 73


 
How often do you...?
Grammar: position of frequency adverbs & frequency phrases. Vocabulary: housework (DO vs MAKE)
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 52


 
relatives DOs and DONTs
Go through the summary and act out the silly rules dialogue, then do the multiple choice exercise. Good luck!
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 45


 
-ED sounds UNO game cards
Designed to make your students learn about -ED endings and pronounce them correctly. Instructions on last page.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 26


 
The alphabet game - intermediate
Famous TV show becomes fun class competition. Students do all the talking, teacher just monitors/helps. Enjoy!
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: others
Downloads: 71


 
Present Perfect card game
Cut out & mix the cards. Divide your class in groups with roughly the same No of cards. In turn, groups use their cards, 1 at a time, to make correct questions. 1 point for the group who uses the last card (question mark). You may also give 1 point to the group who can answer the question correctly. Takes some preparation but students like it!
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 21


 
TOO or ENOUGH?
Too short or not tall enough? Role-play the dialogue using the vocabulary prompts given to practise both ways to say it
Level: elementary
Age: 10-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 64

 


Present Perfect with Bear Grylls - part 1 of 3
2-team activitiy; team 1 answers a question, if right, they can either open Bear�s backpack (good, bad & fun things inside) or carry on to next question. If not, team B plays. Had to reduce this but the full version consists of 24 slides, I could email or transfer, if anybody interested.

Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100
Downloads: 26


Me & Bobby McGee - part 2
File too large to upload it in 1 go, hope you can paste both parts together

Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Downloads: 10


hard to say
An assortment of phrases with pronunciation problems: S+T/D, TION, CIAL, V, Y... Students just listen and repeat, teacher corrects & insists on the most difficult ones

Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
Downloads: 19


Word Order - parts of speech
Sentence-building: simple rules & examples

Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100
Downloads: 21


Hong Kong True or False contest - 1 of 3
2 teams play. Each answers a True/False question about Hong Kong. If correct, they get 50 points and can either move on to next question or open the Fortune Cookie, but careful -there could be good or bad news inside!

Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100
Downloads: 25


person + infinitive musical multiple choice (part 2)
Learn to use WANT, ASK, BEG, TELL etc + person & infinitive with song fragments from the Beatles through to Rihanna

Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Downloads: 16


Present Perfect with Bear Grylls - part 3 of 3
Multiple choice presentation to practise Present Perfect Simple & Continuous and Past Simple.

Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100
Downloads: 23


relative clauses for beginners
Defining relative clauses -THAT only. A simple view for adults.

Level: elementary
Age: 10-100
Downloads: 38


Harry Potter What�s the question? game -2 of 4
2 teams try to give valid questions for each answer, they get 50 points if correct and can either open Harry�s bag or move on to next slide. If wrong, the turn passes to the other team. Starting with basic name, age & nationality questions, the difficulty increases: present simple (routines) & a qui...

Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100
Downloads: 36


Harry Potter What�s the question? game -4 of 4
2 teams play. By producing valid questions for each answer, they get 50 points and can either open Harry�s bag or try next slide. If not, the other team goes on. Starting with basic things like name, age & nationality, the difficulty increases as we move onto present simple (fequency) & a glimpse at...

Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100
Downloads: 31


Basic level multiple choice test
20 multiple choice questions: basic tenses, tag questions, pronouns...

Level: elementary
Age: 10-100


Intermediate level multiple choice test - 7
irregular verbs, conditionals, tenses, phrasals, prepositions, "so vs. such"

Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100


Intermediate level multiple choice test - 4
tenses, relatives, "so do I" & "nor do I", quantifiers

Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100


Advanced level multiple choice test 7
relatives, passive, infintive/gerund collocations, phrasal verbs, double comparative

Level: advanced
Age: 10-100


Basic level multiple choice test - 7
basic tenses, word order, personal & possessive pronouns, time & place prepositions

Level: elementary
Age: 10-100


Intermediate level multiple choice test - 6
phrasal verbs, special irregular verbs (lay-lie; rise-raise); uncountables, How...! and What...! phrases

Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100


Basic level multiple choice test - 3
simple tenses, word order, personal & possessive pronouns

Level: elementary
Age: 10-100


Basic level multiple choice test - 6
simple tenses, word order, personal & possessive pronouns

Level: elementary
Age: 10-100


Basic level multiple choice test - 9
simple tenses, word order, place & time prepositions, personal & possessive pronouns, conditionals 0 & 1, modal verbs

Level: elementary
Age: 10-100


Advanced level multiple choice test 6
so & such, had better & would rather, verb+prepo collocations, impersonal passive, special difficulties

Level: advanced
Age: 10-100