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wordsearch challenge
Some of you may have tried this already... Many of us give students wordsearch worksheets to do, and they�re useful, because they require reading and writing. This is something that uses the same idea, only goes about it the other way round - you get students to make wordsearches and then switch and solve each other�s puzzles. It�s fun, creative, c...
Level: intermediate
Age: 6-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 6
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READING FUN - JUMBLED TEXTS
This is an idea on how to get your students to read through different texts at more advanced levels. It�s a game for groups - simple assembling various topics texts in jumbled paragraphs, but the texts are not that easy to deal with. The instructions are inside, and you can edit if you want.
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 127
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FANTASY LAND - GAMES - PART THREE
This is only part of a project I prepared for my after-holiday workshop with students about mythical beasts and magical creatures. After spending half the day reducing it in every possible way, I simply had to split it into parts. So - this is part 3 of the project about mythical beasts AND magical creatures(There are also parts 1 & 2- text tables ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-14
Type: others
Downloads: 50
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PRESENT PERFECT WITH HARRY POTTER
This is a worksheet which is part of moravc�s project on learning grammar with the Harry Potter stories. It contains 4 Present Perfect tasks, both the colour and b&w version and the key. I hope you find it useful!(check the whole series in the search box).
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 106
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USE OF ENGLISH - key word, word formation, synonyms
This is part 2 of my FCE use of English exercises. It can be used for practice or tests for all advanced levels, both teenage and adults, regardless of whether they�re taking the FCE or not. It is meant to drill word formation(suffixes and prefixes), key word transformation of sentences(with comparison and passive) and synonyms. The word formation ...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 487
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TEENAGERS FOR PARENTS - A TEENAGE PLAY WITH MUSIC
This is a teenage play I wrote for my teenage sts to talk about their problems to their parents, through old songs their parents can relate to(Queen, from Hair, Sinatra, Cabaret, etc.). It consists of several scenes, each like a newsflash about teenage problems, followed by a song. It�s editable - you can shorten songs, cut out some scenes etc. It ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 248
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AVATAR - movie follow-up worksheet 4
This is the fourth worksheet (2-pager) based on the movie Avatar. I wasn�t sure whether to put it under intermediate or advanced, but everybody knows their sts best. One worksheet is about Leona�s title song, and the other one is a comprehensive comparison of the Na�vi and humans. I hope you find it useful. (There are now 4 worksheets in the collec...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 133
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comparison - food and movies
I made this worksheet for reinforcement for my intermediate students. They loved doing comparatives and superlatives with food and movies... It�s a lot of writing and thinking, but they did it with smiles on their faces...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-11
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 80
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meals - song worksheet
Whenever I covered food with very little kids, I wanted a song that links meals and food, and that can have changeable vocabulary items (you can change food words as you like them). Finally I used an old melody and wrote these lines, and it worked. This is a worksheet with some lesson-plan ideas for teachers on page 2. I used it with preschoolers a...
Level: elementary
Age: 6-10
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 65
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ACTIVE READING - stories
This is a collection of 5 worksheets dealing with various motivational stories. The worksheets require reading and writing and are very useful for advanced teenage and adult levels, including FCE and CAE levels. The texts are rather interesting and highly motivational, full of positivity, and inspire further discussion. I hope it�s useful to you!
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 819
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THE SNOW QUEEN (poem) - creative writing ppt
Adding this to my Snow Queen project, I�ve created this ppt for my advanced groups based on a poem by F. Letras (with his permission - thanks, Frank). It contains a poem inspired by the Snow Queen story, two vocabulary task slides and a creative writing task which can be done individually or in pair...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 49
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Ever seen this woman?
Not one of my most colourful activities, but the lesson I had using this ppt turned out to be one of the most powerful and memorable experiences with teenagers. I had been looking for an interesting, unlike-typical-school history text to do with kids, when this text came to me via e-mail and stunned...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 58
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children�s play - THE UGLY DUCKLING
This is the children�s play I wrote on the basis of the original story. It�s made to suit the needs of my groups(we did a play and a puppet show with it), so I added a few characters (couldn�t load their pics, sorry, too large a format. They absolutely loved it, and so did the parents, especially be...
Level: elementary
Age: 7-10
Downloads: 156
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SUMMER GAMES - fun stuff before summer vacation
This is a collection of activities which can be played as games before the summer vacation, concerning summer, sea animals and clothes. there�s even a story included, so that activities range from writing and memorising to reading and speaking. Each slide is one game, and its key is shown at the bot...
Level: elementary
Age: 8-14
Downloads: 386
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CHANGING OUR WORLD - children�s motivational story
Here�s my contribution to Frank�s project for the children. It�s a story inspired by his poem Global Warming, and it�s meant to motivate children to change things. It�s simple reading with three motivational tasks as follow-up. The ppt includes the story and Frank�s poem. Thanks, Frank, for the moti...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Downloads: 38
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St. Patrick�s Day
This is a powerpoint about some basic symbols of St.Patrick�s Day, with several word-game slides at the end. You can read and play it with your elementary, but also intermediate students. It can be used for revision or as introduction to St.Patrick�s Day lessons. Have fun!
Level: elementary
Age: 9-14
Downloads: 33
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AN IMAGINARY PLANET - reading, speaking and writing for intermediate students
I have created this ppt for my internediate kids (9-10 yrs old), as follow-up for space and astronauts (a text in Chatterbox 4). It�s a reading text about an imaginary planet, a speaking activity about Earth, and a writing task to create their own planet. (There�s also a matching worksheet available...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-12
Downloads: 49
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magic spells - reading and writing through magic
I created this ppt for a group game where I had mixed teams of preschool and teenage kids. It�s a very simple game of reading and then writing magic spells, using pictures and text. It�s easily printable (I used the printed version), but it�s useful because it makes kids use opposite adjectives (tur...
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-17
Downloads: 15
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advanced Halloween workshop
This is a ppt I prepared for my intermediate and advanced teenage students. They love writing Halloween stories, but we usually do some brainstorming before the actual writing, so this ppt also has some vocab-expansion activities in the beginning. I had problems adding sounds, so feel free to add yo...
Level: advanced
Age: 11-17
Downloads: 45
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ELEMENTARY REVISION GAMES - kids� level 2
This is a ppt I use to revise at the end of the year with my level 2 kids. It covers numbers (ordinal and cardinal), months, days of the week, school subjects, to be and prepositions, and we usually do it as a competition between two teams. Hope you find it useful.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-11
Downloads: 122
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TEDDYBEARS - PRESENT CONTINUOUS AND A STORY
This is a simple OE for elementary students to practise some Present Continuous (two tasks, all with animated teddies, followed by a story in rhyme with a fill in task and a challenge. I hope you like the story.
Level: elementary
Age: 6-12
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ON THE BEACH - beach, ocean, summer, and grammar!
This is a revision OE with tasks to practise have got, prepositions, ocean vocabulary, prepositions and there is/are. It�s filled with beach and ocean pics and vocabulary, so it can be done for fun even during the summer break.
Level: elementary
Age: 7-100
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REPORTED SPEECH WITH HARRY POTTER
Another addition to our Grammar with HP project - started by moravc. This one, in addition to the ws, deals with direct and indirect speech. I hope you find it useful.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
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DRAGONS
I created this OE with my son in mind. (His English level is not yet there, but I�m hoping the topic will inspire him!) The exercise contains several tasks - a T/F one, two reading tasks with comprehension and fill-in and a listening task with the theme song of a dragon movie. There are pics and ani...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100
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SHERLOCK HOLMES 2
This is the second part of my Holmes OE series. This one contains two tasks - the first one is a multiple choice task with info on Holmes from Wikipedia, and the second one is an open cloze based on listening to the words from the given TV-series trailer. I hope it�s useful to you.
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
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QUESTIONS - yes-no, wh, tags and some fun
This is an OE designed to drill the students in making questions in various tenses - yes-no questions, wh-questions, question tags. There�s a fun teenage youtube video at the end with the �world record� in asking and answering questions. It�s there just for fun and an extra challenge for your studen...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
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MEMORIES & RESPECT
This is a word formation task I prepared for my students, although it is the message I�m trying to get across to them, more than have them practise word formation. Inspired by a small, but significant act of teenage vandalism, I decided to prepare this text. I hope you find it useful, be it just for...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
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JOKES AND PAST SIMPLE - practice
This is a simple OE to revise or practise the Past Simple. There is a task to practise regular and irregular past forms, a fill-in task with kids� jokes and a task with short past simple answers. I hope it�s of use to you.
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100
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LIFE CHALLENGES
Our very own Victoria-ladybug posted this video in the cafe and I just wanted to make sth with it so it inspired me to make my first OE. It doesn�t focus on one particular grammar or vocabulary point, but it�s good for discussing problems, giving advice (should...) and motivating. The video is about...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
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WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
This is a revision exercise I created for elementary students about jobs. It has several tasks, including a limerick at the end (which you may have to help them read, but limericks are great for rhythm). I hope you and your students find it useful and fun.
Level: elementary
Age: 6-11
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