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No way !!! - Or: how to make excuses
You are being asked to help someone or to do little jobs. But you don�t want to. So you must find a good excuse �
In groups of four, put one card on the table, think about an excuse quietly for a minute, then each person writes down one excuse. Show the excuses to the others. You then decide on which excuse is the best or most original. Discuss! ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 244
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WHAT� S THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE IN LIFE ???
Sylboy�s recent worksheet about challenges inspired me to create this conversation game. Thank you for letting me use your ideas!
Students are presented with 18 real challenges in life. In a group, they have to decide on a "hierarchy" of challenges from the most difficult one to easier ones. They are allowed to rule out 12 of the 18 challenges....
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 33
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Q U E S T I O N S - A N D - J O K E R S
6 PAGES -- Activity designed to make students TALK. Over 100 cards with questions and lots of cards with jokers that occasionally permit students NOT to answer a question, to pass it on to someone else or to choose a different question.
Cut out cards. All the question cards go on one stack, the others onto the other one (blank side up. Students d...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 275
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Tell the truth - Tell a lie !
A game in which players must tell the others a lie or the truth about certain subjects. They tehn guess whether he lied or said the truth. Aim: make them all talk!!
Players roll the dice and place their counters on the appropriate squares.
They then take one of the �Tell the truth� � �Tell a lie� cards without showing it to the others and do wh...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 47
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Rapid answers, please!!
Ambush your students with these questions or impulses. Spring the questions at them and make them answer immediately. You can use one question for several students, their answers will be very different.
It�s a lot of fun since everybody is taken by surprise and doesn�t know what to expect.
One or two sentences as answers are sufficient. However,...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 50
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The Park Lane Mystery
MURDER IN PARK LANE!!
On the basis of 10 role cards with brief statements your students must find out what happened. They read out 1 or 2 role cards each (depending on the size of the group), then have to come up with ideas and discuss them. The less information you give them, the more they will have to communicate. You might even hand out the sp...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 79
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Football hooligans and the passive voice
Do your students have as many problems with the passive as mine ? Here is a worksheet that shows them very systematically how to transform an active sentence into the passive voice step by step - and the results are stunning! (Different tenses)
Level: elementary
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 10
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"Take the bull by the horns" - animal idioms
Take the bull by the horns, or do you have bigger fish to fry? Anyway, I�ve got it straigth from the horse�s mouth: your students will enjoy this exercise about animal idioms (plus solution sheet)!
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 34
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"Let�s paint the town red" - Colour idioms
When I was "caught red-handed" "out of the blue" I screamed "blue murder" and everybody was "as white as a sheet" - this worksheet introduces 12 colour idioms. Second sheet: solutions
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 11
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BRB , ASAP - Chat acronyms
AFIK (as far as I know) most young people use acronyms for chatting or sending each other text messages. LOL (laughing out loud) is a very well-known one. JTLYK (just to let you know), here is an exercise in which students can complete these acronyms. 2 worksheets (in alphabetical order) and 2 solution sheets. Your students will be surprised how mo...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 26
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