READING Comprehension -Two articles: E-mails - a sign of progress or of laziness? / Text messaging :-) OR :-(?
This was first a Reading comprehension test, integrated in the 10-lesson Task "A world of many languages", but I used it now as a reading worksheet for 10th graders: Vocabulary exercise, References, True/False, correcting the false ones with your own words, sentence completing and answering a question. Hope you like it! :)))
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: Choose
"Teen Diet isn�t all junk Food!" - Reading comprehension + Writing activities
This is a reading worksheet I�m going to use with my 9th graders (this is their 5th year of English)in the Task "Health is In" (3 PAGES). Students read the text and do some reading comprehension exercises: Who says what, sentence completing, equivalents, references and AmE Vs BrE. Finally, they write a small text about their eating habits, simila...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
"Bullying... WHY ME?!!" Reading/ Writing Worksheet for Intermediate students
This was a Reading Comprehension Test but I�ve used it this year as a worksheet to prepare my students for the Reading/writing test - http://www.eslprinta bles.com/printable.a sp?id=130452#thetop. Exercises: multiple choice on the 1st text; finding evidence on the 2nd; answering questions on both texts and, finally, finding opposites. After doing ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: reading
"Television - Benefits and Side Effects": a 90-minute-lesson with the focus on Reading + Writing skills for Intermediate Students
This is my last piece of work on the Task "The Mass Media" - a reading + writing activity on The advantages and disadvantages of TV (3 PAGES). Students read the teenagers� opinions and do 5 different reading tasks (Who said what, multiple choice, sentence completing, references and synonyms). Finally, after discussing some pros and cons in the cla...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: reading
"Shopping - Do you like it or hate it?" ( a 90-minute class) - Reading comprehension + writing for Intermediate or Upper elementary students
This is a 3-page worksheet for a 90-minute class, with a B&W version included. The text is about 3 teenagers� opinions on shopping. Reading tasks: Scanning the text to say who said what + multiple choice exercise + answering questions + equivalents + references. Last but not least, students write a similar short text expressing their own opinion on...
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: reading
The 1st 45-minute-lesson (of 2) on the topic Describing People -- Reading Comprehension for Upper Elementary and Lower intermediate students
This is the first of 2 lessons on personal description (2 Pages + B&W Version ). Reading tasks: After speculating about the text they are going to read (images, key words, parts of the speech, ..., students scan the tex to find information to complete the table (Notice that the students will end up with a systematization of Physical features essen...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-14
Type: Choose
"Teens and New Technologies" - Reading comprehension for Upper Intermediate students
The other day someone asked what texts I had used before students wrote the opinion essay on new Technologies -http://www.eslprint ables.com/printable. asp?id=314964#thetop
This is one of them. Students read the text and do some reading comprehension exercises: Who says what, sentence completing, equivalents and references. Have a good evening...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Save the Earth
This is an intermediate ws on environmental problems. It has got a text, three tasks on vocabulary (two on the first page and another on the second - about problems and solutions - and questions about the text. I hope you like it! Many hugs!
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
My School" - Reading Comprehension + Writing activities for Intermediate or Upper elementary students
This is a Reading + Writing Test I made for my 7th graders a few years ago and I�ve transformed it into a worksheet (3 Pages). Students scan the text to identify who the statements refer to (more than one answer is possible). Then, they read the first part and complete sentences. They reread the 2nd part and do a T/F exercise. They answer 3 questio...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: Choose
"Let�s go Shopping!" - Reading + Writing + Speaking activity for Upper elementary and Intermediate students
This is a worksheet I�ve created for my task on Shopping for students to learn the conventions they should use when they go to the shops. (KEY included plus B&W version).They (pair work) read the dialogue and put it into the correct order. Then they write it down and act it out.
Have a wonderful Sunday! mena:)))))
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: worksheet
English Test(9th form End of Term 2 Test)(3 parts)Reading Comprehension: THE INTERNET/Grammar+Voc abulary/Writing(+Key )
A reading passage about the internet with some related questions.Some grammar and vocabulary exercises related to the internet and tourism. A writing task about the advantages and the disadvantages of the mobile phone.
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-14
Type: worksheet
The 1st 45-minute-lesson (of 2) on the topic My Favourite Sport -- Reading Comprehension for Upper Elementary and Lower intermediate students
This is the first of 2 lessons on "My favourite Sports"- Series Reading leading to Writing (2 Pages). Reading tasks: After speculating about the text they are going to read (images, key words, parts of the speech...), students scan the text to find information to complete the table. Then, they do a T/F exercise, find opposites, equivalents and re...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: reading
MYSTERY TEASERS! PART 1 - reading activity - amazing detective brain teasers for you and your students (WITH KEYS)
An amazing reading activity for intermediate and advanced students. It can be useful as a funny way of giving your students some relaxation. This ws includes 4 mystery brain teasers (detective stories) which your students have to solve. Key included.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: reading
Christmas in England
Another Reading Comprehension test I did some time ago for Christmas. Vocabulary exercise; ordering sentences according to the text; Multiple choice on the first two paragraphs of the text; sentence completing on the last two paragraphs and, finally, a checklist for the reading tasks.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-14
Type: reading
"I�m a TV Reporter!" - Reading Test for Intermediate students
This is the last test I made yesterday for my evening students, but you can use it as a worksheet for students to see how well they�re doing in their reading skills. 3 PAGES: matching the ideas with the paragraphs of the text, T/F with quotations for all answers, answering questions, including a personal one; finding opposites; referrences and list...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: reading
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Reading: Stereotyping.
Reading about first impressions, stereotyping and people of different countries. Pre-reading activity: type of texts. Comprehension activities and focus on different vocabulary (matching definitions exercise). Useful to teach crosscurricular topics, too. (education in values)
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Format: PowerPoint
Climate and Weather around the World
Learn about the climate of different regions of the world and use the weather icons to speak about the recent weather at that spot. Also useful to review some comparative and superlative adjectives. You can go in any order by choosing the spot on the map, clicking on it will direct you to that slide. The weather icons I used can be practised on my ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Format: PowerPoint
The Halloween Story
It�s a Halloween related game. Fill in the gaps with the Present Perfect or the Simple Past form of the verbs given in the Story of Halloween. Help the Druids illuminate the forest and the witch brew her magic soup. Answers appear to the next click, so it�s an oral exercise. Fully animated. Have fun.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Format: PowerPoint
JUDGING BY APPEARANCES - educational and motivational
This ppt (and a corresponding ws) were inspired by Lucia13 who posted this wonderful text in our ESL cafe not long ago. Since I�m covering describing people with my teenagers, this is just the perfect icing on the cake to teach them to see past the surface. It�s designed for speaking and reading. I hope you find it useful and inspirational. Thanks,...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Format: PowerPoint
Clock reading" with sounds"
I prepared this show to teach students how to read the clock. Answers are accompanied with human sounds. I hope you like it.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-14
Format: PowerPoint
ZODIAC - YOUR SIGN IN YOUR FATE (B&W INCLUDED)
It is a good activity to take the student to read the different types of texts that circulate in the society, besides the discussions and debates around the subject, waking up the curiosity. I hope like
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Format: PowerPoint
story reading-a big bad wolf
It�s a lovely story for students to role play .Ss like it very much.
Level: intermediate
Age: 3-17
Format: PowerPoint
What did you do yesterday? Reading Activity
The comic images were created with 3D Movie Maker (1995 software). This PPT is basically for practising the use of the Past Simple tense.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Format: PowerPoint
Literary devices Part 2
Literary devices: Allusion, IRONY, Alliteration, Assonance, Simile and Metaphor, Personification, Onomatopoeia, Hyperbole, Idiom, Pun, Oxymoron, Repetition, Imagery, Symbol
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Format: PowerPoint
PIRATE�S TREASURE - fun summer story with pre, during and post-reading fun
This ppt is based on the story Pirate�s Treasure(the link is included because the online version also contains audio files). It�s a fun short story for children, and the ppt has an activity to do before reading, lots of discussion stuff to do while reading and fun challenges for after reading. I hope you find it useful.
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-14
Format: PowerPoint
Saint Patrick�s Day: Printable complete-the-gaps reading, Printable comprehensive word search, Printable quiz and two Printable factsheets
Ireland, what a great country! U2, the Corrs, The Cranberries, the Guiness... ;) I have just made up this extensive set of activities related to Saint Patrick�s Day. You�ve got a complete-the-gaps reading, a comprehensive word search, a quiz (computer activity) and two factsheets at your disposal. I hope you like them, Erin Go Braugh!
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Format: PowerPoint
Amazing Facts about The English Language...Reading Comprehension Worksheet.
Amazing Facts (11)...Read the facts and answer the questions.
I hope it will be useful for you :)))
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Format: PowerPoint
How to Improve your English Techniques?
More than 40 techniques on how can people improve their English, mainly outside the class room. I have divided them into two parts as the size is big. And ny the way the techniques are also useful to teachers, with a lot of interesting ideas you can use in your class.
I have done this as a public lecture many times and it was really successful
N...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Format: PowerPoint
Extreme Sport Reading Exercise PET style
Reading exercise about Extreme Sports. Good for Cambridge Exam practice. It was too heavy to send as a Word document. Key is included.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Format: PowerPoint
Oscar Wilde Presentation
This is a useful description of the life of Oscar Wilde for the occasion where this fits in your syllabus. I produced it for short summer camp course on the Picture of Dorian Gray which we were reading at the time in class (Penguin Reader of course!) It gave the kids a deeper insight into Wilde�s life and provides a test at the end to test their ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Format: PowerPoint
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4-SKILLS Classifying & Sorting, Metals Part -II- (Author-Bouabdellah)
Part TWO = Whole unit about Expressing Classification/Sorti ng/Categorizing.... With Picture study, Vocabulary building, Comprehension
-----METALS------: Sixty of the hundred or so elements in the periodic table of the elements, which make up all known matter, are classified as metals. The remaining elements which...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Hawaii:Reading and Listening Comprehension
Interesting facts about our dream holiday destination and a TravelChannel video to develop listening skills. CU there next summer :)
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
The Mosquito: Listening and Reading Comprehension
An interesting NatGeo video about no one�s favourite animal, the mosquito to practise listening comprehension and a text about how to avoid mosquito bites for reading.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Listening and Reading: The Computer, the Wonder of the Future
A great video from the 1950s and a contemporary text about the future of computers to develop listening and reading skills.
Unfortunate ly the original video has been removed, therefore the first part of the exercise can only be done. :((
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Pandas: Cuddliest of all Bears
Online reading text about giant pandas with 40 questions focusing mainly on verb tenses: present simple/continuous/pe rfect. Other questions target modal verbs, passive voice, vocabulary and understanding. Enjoy!
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
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 animated dragons inside, so if you like dragons, fire...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100
CLUEDO READING GUESSING GAME
CLUEDO READING GUESSING GAME
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-100
Listening and Reading: The Alligator King
This exercise is made for developing listening and reading skills through an oldie about the Alligator King and a bit of Biology (crossword). Learn and have fun.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
4-SKILLS Narrating, Fables Part I (Author-Bouabdellah)
Part One=Whole unit about narrating
Based on fables:
01-Arabian fable: The Guest And The Chicken.
02-The Lion and the Mouse
03-The Two Frogs and the Well.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
4-SKILLS Describing A Place Part I The British Isles (Author-Bouabdellah)
Part ONE=Whole unit about DESRCIBING A PLACE / THE BRITISH ISLES:
-Review and practice the prepositions + Comparartive adjectives...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
4-SKILLS Describing Function & Use -I- COMPUTERS (Author-Bouabdellah)
Part ONE=Whole unit about DESRCIBING Funtion & Use.
With Picture study, Vocabulary buildin, Comprehension
----- -----COMPUTERS------ -----
Computers are used nowadays for many different kinds of work, in offi�ces, banks, factories, hospitals, universities, schools, and many .... TEXT Adapted
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Giant Pandas: Reading and Listening Comprehension
A folk tale about how pandas got their colour and an interesting video about wild giant pandas to develop reading and listening skills.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Sumo Wrestling: Reading and Listening Comprehension
Two Reading tasks and an interesting TravelChannel video about Japan�s ancient sport.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Tornadoes: Listening and Reading
An interesting Nat Geo video about tornadoes for listening comprehension and a crossword for reading comprehension.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
I Can Read
Reading exercise with True/false questions based on photos. It can be used with older children, teens and even students preparing for TOEIC or TOEFL.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
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