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AMERICAN PIE by Don McLean
American Pie is a classic song I have used to create a reading comprehension exericise. First you start with discussion of the song, then a fill the gap listening activity. There are true and false questions for each verse of the song. Following this is some interpretations of the song with questions for your student to find the answers in the l...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 51
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Reading Detective Comprehension Strategies 5/8
These are the �Reading Detective Comprehension Strategy� Cards I have developed. They are �Learning Intentions� that I use during reading sessions. I leave them on the wall so that students can always see them to help them use comprehension strategies when reading. These skills help students to develop their comprehension strategies in all subje...
Level: elementary
Age: 6-14
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 38
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Reading Detective 6/8
These are the �Reading Detective Comprehension Strategy� Cards I have developed. They are �Learning Intentions� that I use during reading sessions. I leave them on the wall so that students can always see them to help them use comprehension strategies when reading. These skills help students to develop their comprehension strategies in all subje...
Level: elementary
Age: 6-14
Type: reading
Downloads: 25
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FlashCard Games - Volume One
I have typed up 5 of my favourite FlashCard Games. I use the flashcards from Booglesworld. I have gien more detail in the games I play than I find on other sites.
Games have recommendations for their uses - Ie introduce new vocabulary - revise old vocabulary. These are not original games - but have the rules as I play them.
Level: Choose
Age: 4-17
Type: others
Downloads: 13
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The Lorax Writing Worksheet
This is a companion writing worksheet for The Lorax - by Dr Suess. I have used this successfully with ESOL and mainstream classrooms. The idea for the worksheet came from a lecturer who showed us a similar (but different) worksheet for The Lorax. I just made this one up as it is colourful and covered the exact areas I wanted.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-12
Type: others
Downloads: 24
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FCE ARTICLE WRITING LESSON
This is a 1-2 class lesson. Students only require this worksheet and a blank piece of writing paper. Students are required to firstly assess two examples of writing (taken from http://www.flo-joe.co.uk/fce/students/writing/makeover/makeover32.htm).
Then students are required to make recommendations.
Finally students are expected to write thei...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 51
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The True Origins of Christmas
A reading comprehension outlining the history of Christmas before Christmas! I wrote this article in my own words but researched the information from many websites includign wiki and a history page. To the best of my knowledge all information is accurate.
There are 2 pages of reading comprehension, evaluation and writing activities accompany...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 270
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HEROES video comprehenson 1/2
A comprehension worksheet for high-intermediate to advanced students.
Students watch the youtube video (11 minutes) while completing the worksheet. The teacher can pause between each character.
This goes really well with my entire Heroes unit and flashcards.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 97
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Anti Stress Kit Presents
Here are three different anti-stress kits to give away as presents. There are instructions included. Basically you have to go get some marbles, glitter, rubber bands etc and you make a wonderful present for students or colleagues. I can them to our graduating english students at college and they loved them.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: others
Downloads: 95
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The Gunpowder Plot
A fun 16 page workbook to give your class to celebrate Guy Fawkes Day. It includes acrostic poems, wordfinds, crosswords, comprehension, art activities, maths word problems. A real brain bending activity that gets students to build their vocabulary. Doesn�t look good in preview - but seems to download absolutely fine. If you leave a comment when...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 144
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