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Past Perfect: what happened before (part 1)
This activity works on using past perfect to talk about 2 actions where one occurs prior to the other. Students work in pairs. On their sheet there is a list of events. Students have to speculate about what had happened to cause those events. (e.g. it says on the sheet �John arrived late to work�, they speculate and write �He had forgotten to set h...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 11
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Modal Verbs: Asking for permission Speaking Activity
Students work in pairs. Each student has a slip of paper with permission topics, they take it in turns to mime the actions they need to get permission to do, and their partner guesses and asks for permission to do them (e.g. person A mimes smoking, person B says �Would you mind if I smoke?)
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 25
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Short and Long vowels practice
This is an activity to follow the guide I uploaded on short and long vowels. It is a list of pairs of words which look similar but are pronounced differently. In every pair one of the words has a short vowel sound and the other has a long vowel sound. I normally have students work in pairs, one says the first word, then the other one says the secon...
Level: elementary
Age: 12-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 6
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Past simple vs past continuous story
Students fill in the gaps in the story conjugating the verbs in past simple or past continuous.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 40
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The 3 Musketeers: Definite Articles Gap Fill
This is my 2 page long version of The 3 Musketeers. I left out all uses of the article. Students have to fill in the spaces using a, an or the. Useful for practicing definite/indefinite articles once you�ve explained to them the rules.
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 19
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The Hobbit Reading: to, for and since
This is the story of The Hobbit but I left out all uses of to, for and since. Students have to decide which preposition to use for the spaces. This practices: infinitive of purpose; using to before places; using an infinitive when there are 2 verbs in succession, and using since before dates in the past. I wrote this specifically with Spanish-speak...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 38
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For and To: Infinitive of Purpose Question and Answer Worksheet
This worksheet has 10 questions which students have to answer using for or to. It is designed specifically to address a common problem Spanish speaking learners make when they try to translate �para� in to English.
Level: elementary
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6
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Short and Long Vowels Rules
This is an introductory guide to knowing when the vowel sound in a word will be short and when it will be long. It explains the rules words normally follow. It also gives some pointers on how to pronounce words which have 2 vowels in succession (priest, eight, clean etc). There are word examples which you can drill or have students read aloud.
Level: elementary
Age: 12-100
Type: grammar-guide
Downloads: 29
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Test on counting syllables and knowing which syllable to stress
This is an activity that can be used as a test or just for practicing counting the number of syllables in words and identifying where we place the stress. The passage is a short one page long biography. Students have to find all the words that have 2 or more syllables and underline the syllable that we stress.
Level: advanced
Age: 15-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 16
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Test on Do and Make
This is a gap fill story about someone�s routines/life. Students fill in the gaps using do or make. It has over 50 uses of do and make. Students are really tested on how well they know the difference between these verbs. It also requires them to conjugate in different tenses (present simple, present continuous, past simple, past participle etc)
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 31
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Connectors of Consequence Powerpoint and Practice Activity
Powerpoint explaining formal and informal connectors of consequences or results or effects. Covers the following connectors: so; that�s why; as a result; consequently; as a result of this; because of this; therefore; for this reason; thus; hence. Explanations followed by an activity where students h...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
Downloads: 26
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Connectors of Addition Powerpoint and Practice Exercises
Powerpoint explaining formal (in addition, furthermore, moreover) and informal (also, too, as well, plus) connectors of addition. It also has practice exercises for both types of connector.
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
Downloads: 38
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Used to
This powerpoint explains how we use used to when talking about: past routines; familiarity with things; developing familiarity with things. It also includes a speaking activity for students to do in pairs where they make a topics table and ask each other questions about things they did in the past, ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Downloads: 34
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ough words listening practice
This is an activity to help students improve their listening skills. The powerpoint has a word bank with 15 ough words and a table with the 5 different pronunciations these words have. You can project the page or print it out. Then you read out the words in random order, repeating each word once, an...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Downloads: 19
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Pronouncing words with �gh�
This powerpoint explains the rules and patterns for pronouncing words with a �gh� combination of letters. It covers �ough� words which are particularly difficult and it includes word bank examples that you can drill or have students read aloud once you�ve given them the vowel sound.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Downloads: 13
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syllable stress rules and practice
This is a powerpoint that explains some of the rules of stress, i.e. which syllable we need to stress when we say a word. It also has the following practice activities: words to drill or have students read aloud; word banks which students need to sort according to how many syllables in each word and...
Level: advanced
Age: 15-100
Downloads: 55
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