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Smartphone privacy
As smartphones become more and more indispensible in our lives, our privacy suffers, because the apps we download, many times for free, request access to information that is often not at all related to the task the app is supposed to perform. This reading activity starts with a warm up conversation about apps and smartphone privacy issues, and then...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 29
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Personality Test
A friend posted this personality test on Facebook and I turned it into a reading, conversation and vocabulary development activity. Several personality characteristics are mentioned and highlighted in the text, so it may come as a fun complement to lessons which deal with this topic.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 112
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Dumb ways to die
This is a material based on a Melbourne Metro Safety Campaign, which received several awards. The song is funny, catchy, and cute. I made the lyrics into a vocabulary/reading comprehension type of activity. I hope your students like it as much as mine did.
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 16
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Memory: what it is and how it works
Memory is essencial in learning a language, so I read a lot about this topic. I came across this text that explains how we store and retrieve information in our brain, and I thought students would be interested in this topic too, so I turned this article into a reading comprehension activity. Some words were scrambled, and students have to rely on...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 17
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Comparative chart of verb tenses
This chart contrasts the same sentence in different tenses: present simple, present continuous, simple past, Future (will). It is useful when revising basic verb tenses.
Level: elementary
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 17
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Just say No
This is a reading activity based on an essay published at www.thisibelieve.org, which is a great source of essays on many different topics. In this particular one,the author talks about choosing to say no to some of our modern world "must-haves": a car, a cell phone, pierced ears...there are two pre-reading activities, which include a discussion an...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 31
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Why do we fall in love?
This is an interview concerning a research about how and why we fall in love. The questions for the interview have been removed and scrambled, and students have to match the questions to the corresponding answers. After this task is completed and corrected, students will answer questions expressing their own opinios about the topic. As a follow up,...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 23
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Could you have food intolerance?
This is a text about food intolerance, which affects more and more people nowadays. The first letter of some words in the text have been taken out, so students have to guess from context what the incomplete words are and fill in the blanks with the missing letters. Discussion questions follow the exercise, and on the third and fourth pages you hav...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 10
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Hypothetical and silly questions
A worksheet that will be both reading and speaking practice for the students. Hopefuly some fun, too, especially the second page.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 2
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Talent: born or made?
This activity is a good practice for proficiency exams, but the content of the text can lead to an interesting discussion about whether our talents are natural or developed.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 24
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