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PIRATE FUN
This is a worksheet I made for my students to do before or during their summer holidays. It�s just for fun and contains two vocabulary tasks and riddles about pirates and their equipment. (There�s also a matching OE with an additional wordseach.) I just love pirate stories, so this is only part of my material about the topic. I hope you have fun wi...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 54
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WORD FORMATION PRACTICE
This is a worksheet with 26 sentences to either practise or test word formation skills. (There is a color and b&w version, as well as the key.) I plan to use it with my FCE students. I hope you find it useful. (no projects this time, just a worksheet;))
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 238
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HUGLESS DOUGLAS - adapted from D. Melling�s beautiful story
This is a ws I prepared for my students who are 9-11, and it�s based on D. Melling�s wonderful picture book Hugless Douglas. The story is about a bear who wakes up after hibernation and all he wants is a hug. The ws is fully editable (although the preview is completely off and I have no idea why:(((). The story is absolutely charming, and you can l...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-12
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 12
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HOLD MY HAND - lyrics and discussion points with project ideas
Yet another in a line of worksheets based on this beautiful, positive song, but I simply couldn�t resist using it with my students. The lyrics have a task with antonyms and several discussion points, and after the original text there are some project ideas for teachers. (I�m going to use it with a ppt also uploaded here, but they can be used separa...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 71
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SANTA VS. GRINCH - fun grammar worksheet
I needed a worksheet to review some grammar material at this Christmassy time of the year, so I decided to make it using Santa and the Grinch. The ws contains 3 tasks - comparing Santa and Grinch, filling in (with Past S.) a story about Santa�s bad day and guessing jobs the Grinch tried when he decided to be honest. I hope you find it useful! Happy...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-12
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 192
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THE SNOW QUEEN MINIBOOK
This is my first minibook ever (thank you, DedicatedTeacher, for the free template). But my Snow Queen project this year just wouldn�t be complete without it. (I only made the colour version, but I guess it could come out nicely printed on a b&w printer as well.) I hope you find it useful. It�s just such a lovely story to use during winter.(btw, ca...
Level: elementary
Age: 7-11
Type: reading
Downloads: 219
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THE SNOW QUEEN - intermediate ws, play and project
This is a project I prepared for my intermediate students based on a text from storynory.com and a play a friend of mine sent me by e-mail. It contains project ideas and a writing worksheet as well. It can be used with the matching ppt(s), but also separately. The story is very interesting, full of various twists,and can be done in episodes through...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 182
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THE SNOW QUEEN - advanced project
This is a project I�ve prepared for my advanced groups. It is based on a long version of the Snow Queen (link included) in 7 parts, and I�ve prepared a pre, while and post reading task for each part. I hope you find it useful. (can be used with the ppt available here http://www.eslprintables.com/powerpoint.asp?id=36625#thetop)
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: Choose
Downloads: 89
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AN IMAGINARY PLANET - reading, speaking and writing project for intermediate students
This is a ws I made for my intermediate students (9-10 yrs old) with a reading text about an imaginary planet, a speaking task about Earth and a creative writing task about a planet they invent. For me it�s follow-up for a text about space and astronauts in Chatterbox 4, but it doesn�t have to be linked to it. There�s also a matching ppt available....
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-12
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 77
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LIMERICKS, part 4 - funny limerick story for the third conditional
I�m all about limericks this time - this is the 4th part of my collection. Another funny limerick story by yours truly, this time with activities to practise the 3rd conditional, and discuss stereotype and prejudice. That�s it from me on limericks, really. (But they�re so much fun to do...)
Level: advanced
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 175
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ASSOCIATION GAMES TEMPLATE - free and you can actually play it!
Dear colleagues, I�ve been trying to make a ppt in which you can actually play association games, but kept having problems. Then a friend gave me such a simple idea and, as all simple ideas - it worked superbly. So, as promised in the forum, here�s a free template with rules and an example game. I h...
Level: elementary
Age: 3-17
Downloads: 0
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HALLOWEEN ASSOCIATION GAMES - play and learn
Finally made it - with a little help from a friend, I managed to turn my association games into ppt games. Rules are included, so if you�ve never played - do try. You can do this with all ages and levels. If you like the game, and want to create your own, I�m also uploading a free template.
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-17
Downloads: 186
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CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP - advanced story writing
I designed this ppt based on an activity I sometimes do with my advanced students (FCE&CAE) - it�s a fun, creative way to expand their adjectives vocabulary and let their imagination do some work for them. They love writing stories about interesting photos with some, but not too much, guided vocabul...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 354
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CHANGING OUR WORLD - children�s motivational story
Here�s my contribution to Frank�s project for the children. It�s a story inspired by his poem Global Warming, and it�s meant to motivate children to change things. It�s simple reading with three motivational tasks as follow-up. The ppt includes the story and Frank�s poem. Thanks, Frank, for the moti...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Downloads: 38
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CUTE ANIMALS - short stories about animals
This is a ppt linked with my ws also called Cute Animals. The ppt contains 3 of my new stories with a follow-up activity for each, plus three suggestions for the sts to invent their own stories (so you can also use it with intermediate sts). You can use the ppt alone, or accompanied with the ws wher...
Level: elementary
Age: 7-12
Downloads: 77
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THE ADVENTURES OF ISABEL - funny scary poem(for Halloween maybe?)
This is a ppt inspired and dedicated to our very own Franknbea and Anaisabel, and the ESL cafe. It�s based on the Ogden Nash poem The Adventures of Isabel and I�ve also added a Halloween activity for students. It can be used for intermediate sts as well, but it has a special sense of humour, so be c...
Level: advanced
Age: 11-17
Downloads: 34
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THE SNOWFLAKE AND THE RING - interactive story for kids
This story was inspired and commissioned from me by my son. It�s a fairytale with parts which are unfinished, so you need to interact with your sts to get them to complete it. I�ve tried it with various age groups and levels, andit really works. It�s fun and creative and expands their vocabulary...
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-12
Downloads: 39
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HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON - follow-up quiz
This is a follow-up quiz to play after watching How to Train Your Dragon. It has over 20 slides(all not visible in the preview), and each slide contains 2 mistakes in spelling, grammar or data, and, of course, accompanying pics to make it more fun. The final slides are the key and point assessment. ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-17
Downloads: 34
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THE JUNGLE BOOK - short role-play for elementary kids
This is a ppt of a short play for kids I wrote based on Kipling�s Jungle Book. You can use it for class role reading, or even for a play with kids to perform in front of parents or audience, as I did (btw, a ws version is also available on ESL if you need it, and it contains lyrics to the songs used...
Level: elementary
Age: 7-9
Downloads: 210
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�ALLO �ALLO - short play for intermediate teenagers
This is a ppt of a short play I wrote for my teenagers (there is a wss version for sts uploaded on ESL as well), based on the hillarious comedy �Allo �Allo. They loved imitating different funny characters and their accents, which actually helped them improve their own English. It�s not too complicat...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 34
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ON THE BEACH - beach, ocean, summer, and grammar!
This is a revision OE with tasks to practise have got, prepositions, ocean vocabulary, prepositions and there is/are. It�s filled with beach and ocean pics and vocabulary, so it can be done for fun even during the summer break.
Level: elementary
Age: 7-100
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QUESTIONS AND TAGS - AGAIN
Here�s another OE with lots of question-making practise. It is based on interesting, little known facts of life from karmas.korner, which makes a rather dull grammar task more interesting and quite fun. Lots of wh-questions to make and even more question tags! Hope it�s of use!
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
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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 ani...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100
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TEDDYBEARS - PRESENT CONTINUOUS AND A STORY
This is a simple OE for elementary students to practise some Present Continuous (two tasks, all with animated teddies, followed by a story in rhyme with a fill in task and a challenge. I hope you like the story.
Level: elementary
Age: 6-12
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DRAMA QUEEN - from an early age
This is an OE prepared to revise Present and Past Simple (all forms) through a simple story about a gril who was a drama queen and grew up to stay one as well. The OE has four tasks: 1. Past Simple, 2. Present Simple, 3. Drama Queen lyrics tasks (several) and 4. short answers in both Present and Pas...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-100
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QUESTIONS - yes-no, wh, tags and some fun
This is an OE designed to drill the students in making questions in various tenses - yes-no questions, wh-questions, question tags. There�s a fun teenage youtube video at the end with the �world record� in asking and answering questions. It�s there just for fun and an extra challenge for your studen...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
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SUMMER - DON�T YOU JUST LOVE IT?
I made this OE for my last lesson with my students before the summer holidays. There is a bit about ocean animals, about diving and a funny cartoon taking place on the beach. I hope you have fun with it!
Level: elementary
Age: 7-100
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FISHING FUN
This is an OE based on a fun/funny dialogue between two boys about fishing (thank you, Frank, for your kind permission to use your text). It contains a reading task, two fun fishing videos, a preposition and a vocabulary task. I hope you find it useful and enjoy the dialogue.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
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BORN FREE - OUR PLANET
I made this OE inspired by the video for Born Free, but the basis for the exercise is actually environmental care, enjoying the nature and preserving it, so it revolves around nature vocabulary. It contains two videos and several tasks - vocabulary, spelling, memory practice, fill-in... well, you�ll...
Level: advanced
Age: 11-100
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PIRATE FUN
I made this OE for my students to do before or during their summer holidays. It�s a wordsearch, vocabulary task and riddles about pirates and their equipment. It�s also available as a printable, without the interactive options. I love pirate stories, so I have made several materials about this topic...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-100
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