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Personality Test
A friend posted this personality test on Facebook and I turned it into a reading, conversation and vocabulary development activity. Several personality characteristics are mentioned and highlighted in the text, so it may come as a fun complement to lessons which deal with this topic.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 112
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Graphology: can your handwriting reveal your personality?
I made this reading activity to go with lesson 1B from the textbook New English File Upper Intermediate, but it can be used on its own. It is fun to collect students� samples of handwriting and then give each student a sample to be analyzed according to the info on the text.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 67
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Are you nomophobic?
This is an activity I created to discuss the issue of nomophobia, which is the extreme anxiety some people feel when they don�t have their mobile phones with them. It has become a problem mostly for teenagers, but many adults also suffer from this condition. I hope you find the text useful and thought-provoking.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 52
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Christmas symbols
This is a reading activity which revises or consolidates Christmas vocabulary. I made it for my 10-year-old students, so I tried to keep the vocabulary as simple as possible. The first letters of each term or expression is a hint to help them pick the right word.
Level: elementary
Age: 10-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 35
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Arguments against the use of animals in experiments
This worksheet has two parts: The first part is an article that provides counterarguments to some of the most common arguments in favor of using animals in experiments. Students are supposed to place the headings for each paragraph where they belong, and change the highlighted passive sentences into active ones. The second part of the assignment p...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type:
Downloads: 32
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Just say No
This is a reading activity based on an essay published at www.thisibelieve.org, which is a great source of essays on many different topics. In this particular one,the author talks about choosing to say no to some of our modern world "must-haves": a car, a cell phone, pierced ears...there are two pre-reading activities, which include a discussion an...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 31
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A reading activity for dog lovers
Most people are dog lovers, so these cute and interesting pictures of dogs and their owners serve as an incentive for students to try to figure out the meaning of words so as to match the right caption to each picture. My students enjoyed it a lot; I hope yours do too.
Level: elementary
Age: 9-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 29
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Smartphone privacy
As smartphones become more and more indispensible in our lives, our privacy suffers, because the apps we download, many times for free, request access to information that is often not at all related to the task the app is supposed to perform. This reading activity starts with a warm up conversation about apps and smartphone privacy issues, and then...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 29
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Are you ready to travel?
I made this worksheets for students who are going away on vacation to Englsih-speaking countries. It covers useful sentences in different topics such as going through immigration, checking in (a flight or hotel), going shopping, eating out and asking for directions. A two-page handout plus the answers� page.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 27
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Osama Bin Laden Killed
Reading activity, with three tasks, based on an ABC news article. Answers and task instructions on the 2nd page.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 26
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Christmas symbols
This is an activity to teach or practice Christmas vocabulary (Christmas symbols).
I use it as a game in groups: for each round, we roll the dice and that is the number of points each word will be worth. If, say, they roll the dice and get a seven, they will get seven points if the know the word, m...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Downloads: 17
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