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Mermaid Adventures
This is an original fairytale which borrows elements from a famous fairytale, which your students will recognize. The aim is to entertain, uplift the spirits of children, and encourage their imagination. Parents or grandparents may enjoy reading it to young people. It can be a springboard to a conversation about copyright, plagiarism and the publi...
Level: intermediate
Age: 6-100
Type:
Downloads: 43
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The Mermaids of the Aquamarine Cove
This is an original fairytale featuring mermaids, fairies, a pirate, and treasure. Includes a short true/false reading comprehension quiz.
Level: intermediate
Age: 6-100
Type:
Downloads: 44
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Another Special Day for Young Tom
This original story may interest students who have little brothers or adults that have young children or grandchildren. It depicts the typical day of a little boy who loves to ride his battery operated motorcycle, snack, talk on the phone with his grandparents, play with his blocks, etc. Hope you enjoy it. It is editable. Students can write their s...
Level: intermediate
Age: 6-100
Type:
Downloads: 36
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Easy 3rd dialog where Maria wants to stay and play with Anna
This is the 3rd time Anna and Maria meet. The 1st time Maria only parroted Anna, as she speaks no English, but Anna discovered her name when her mother called. The 2nd time Anna and Maria exchanged names using gestures to indicate who they meant. In this 3rd dialog Maria wants to stay with Anna when her mother calls her. She tells her mother, "No" ...
Level: elementary
Age: 6-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7
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Easy 2nd dialog where Anna and Maria exchange names
A follow up dialog to Easy First dialog--What is Your Name? Anna and Maria successfully exchange names using gestures (pointing to self and to their conversation partner to indicate who the name refers to) when exchanging names since Maria speaks no English. For true beginners.
Level: elementary
Age: 6-100
Type:
Downloads: 8
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Easy First dialog--What is Your Name?
A short dialog with easy vocab practices "What is your name?" with a funny twist--the 2nd speaker only parrots what she hears as she knows no English. Anna deduces that her friend is not her namesake when her mother calls. It is editable, so writing "No speak English" in your native tongue, makes it even funnier.
Level: elementary
Age: 6-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 8
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Tom�s Special Saturday
Students can read or listen to this original story about a typical Saturday full of activities of a young fun loving American boy. He plays at the park, at home, and in his back yard. Provides authentic useful vocabulary for describing your day, and an opportunity for SS to practice writing their own story of how they have spent their Saturday in ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 6-10
Type:
Downloads: 36
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What the Earth Looks Like - an original story about different perspectives
This is a story I wrote featuring several perspectives, modelled on the idea of the blindmen and the elephant story. All of the pictures are from pixabay.com and are in the public domain. To keep the file size down, I reduced the images. I recommend that after downloading the worksheet, you resize the images to larger sizes. This will enable the st...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-12
Type:
Downloads: 28
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More Practice With Like + Gerund (includes negative and positiveconstructions)
This worksheet deals with positive and negative sentences using the like + gerund formulation. Ex. I like having ____. I don�t like hearing ____. There is an audio file of the paragraph at https://app.box.com/s/xp03i0rlp491tvwva84bxck3gbdr69qb , if you want to do a listening exercise with it.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-10
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 84
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Our Pen Pals likes using like + gerund
Students can practice listening to the construction like Plus gerund, while they read about the likes of the fictitious pen pals. The audio files are located at
https://app.box.com/s/w7t4hsp55l71svbtnjfowcmv61t97n2s instructions for listening
https://app.box.com/s/93edttc5221yyf8qcloinmy8zyteins8 questions
https://app.box.com/s/b7p4pivjtzu...
Level: elementary
Age: 8-10
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 47
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At the Park -- Likes and Dislikes
This powerpoint reviews vocabulary pertaining to recreational and free time activities in the park. It models how to express likes and dislikes. The preview on pages 2 and 3 looks messy and does not reflect how the PPT actually looks. It is animated so that only one sentence at a time is displayed. ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100
Downloads: 111
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An American Class Interviewed --Wh Questions
A group of students is being interviewed. The animation makes it appear that they answer the teacher�s questions directly, one by one, but are thinking wh questions to themselves. They are asked about their family, their free-time activities, their pets, their chores, how they get to school, what t...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Downloads: 38
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What Is He Doing?--verb game
This is a simple game for elementary level young students (and maybe the young at heart). It is multiple choice and the student clicks on the verb that matches the picture. Thank you to valeriavaleria for the beautiful template. I was inspired by a game that cukurova made, "am is are", at http://www...
Level: elementary
Age: 6-10
Downloads: 49
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ABCs of Philadelphia, a Tour of History, Sights, and Culture--Part 4
This is part 4 of a 4 part set of slides about Philadelphia. The slides are arranged like an ABCs picture book. This part covers Valley Forge and William Penn. It has an extensive bibliography at the end of the slideshow. All images are licensed under creative commons copyleft or in the public domai...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Downloads: 25
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ABCs of Philadelphia, a Tour of History, Sights, and Culture--Part Three
This is part 3 of a 4 part set of slides about Philadelphia. The slides are arranged like an ABCs picture book. This part covers transportation, neighborhoods, the University of Pennsylvania, and the libery bell. There are discussion questions students can answer or do a webquest on.
It has an ext...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Downloads: 24
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ABCs of Philadelphia, a Tour of History, Sights, and Culture--Part Two
This is part two of a 4 part set of slides about Philadelphia. The slides are arranged like an ABCs picture book. "B is for Boat House Row", "C is for Cheese Steak." This part features Independence Hall, the Declaration of Independence,and Benjamin Franklin. There is a link to a map of Fairmount Par...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Downloads: 17
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ABCs of Philadelphia, a Tour of History, Sights, and Culture--Part One
This is part One of a 4 part set of slides about Philadelphia. The slides are aranged like an ABCs picture book. "A is for athletics", "B is for Benjamin Franklin".This part features Philadelphia�s athletic teams and art by native Philadelphians. There are discussion questions students can answer. I...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Downloads: 16
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A Student�s Daily Routine--Part 2
This is part 2 of a student�s daily routine. The PPTx was too large to send, so I divided it into 2 parts. In this part, the student packs his lunch, packs his school bag, takes the bus to school, attends class, eats lunch, plays soccer, does homework, eats dinner, goes to bed, and dreams of soccer....
Level: elementary
Age: 6-100
Downloads: 20
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A Student�s Daily Routine--Part One
It�s animated! This is part 1 of a student�s daily routine. The PPTx was too large to send in one piece, so I had to divide it into 2 parts. This part covers waking up, eating breakfast, taking a shower, brushing his teeth, combing his hair, and getting dressed. On the last slide it says that he wil...
Level: elementary
Age: 6-100
Downloads: 28
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Earth Day - Verb to be (fill in the blanks)
April 22nd is Earth Day. This PowerPoint showcases the winning artwork and 2 very short winning videos from the Green City, Clean Waters Art Contest, 2014. The descriptions of the pictures have blanks where the "to be" verb should be. Your students can fill in the blanks, and hopefully get inspired ...
Level: elementary
Age: 10-100
Downloads: 45
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