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Idioms - the ultimate board game
This board game consists of the players making up their own similes and guessing the meaning of idioms. Full instructions how to play are contained on page 2. The meanings to all the idioms are also given. Due to size restraint, I have excluded many of the pictures that can be used to illustrate idioms and similes, but it is still worth playing....
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 119
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road safety
a picture with lots and lots of road safety mishaps. The class needs to identify all the road safety problems and complete a gap filling exercise
Level: elementary
Age: 7-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 140
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signs
a worksheet with a selection of different signs and the situations in which they would be found. Also a matching exercise for road traffic signs.
Level: elementary
Age: 7-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 151
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The Queue
This is a series of 36 cards which states the place where a person is standing in a queue (line up). This is ideal as a warmer, or ice breaker. Each student has to find their place in the line by finding what the person in front and behind is doing. Full instruction on how to stage manage this are given on the first page. (Not sure if this is o...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 45
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cops and robbers
This is a role play especially useful for large classes. It involves language of crime and is basically a whole class activity where some of the class are �cops� and the rest are different types of �criminals�. Each can only identify each other by particular things they have in interest. The criminals have to find each other, before the cops do....
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 20
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If earth...?
This is a sheet that can be used as a basis for discussion in small groups. I am not sure how accurate the statistics are, but this is one of the things that can provoke discussion and controversy. Also, not sure where I got it from, so if it is from another published source I apologise and will remove it if anyone informs me of such. I have use...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: others
Downloads: 31
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Holidays - Past Tense
This is a worksheet using Marshmallow�s holiday illustrations but adding text in the present tense with two exercises to convert the text to simple past. The first exercise is simply change the verb form, the second is to write the entire script. (I notice that on the preview the format seems to have changed with a text box across the pictures, s...
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 145
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Irregular - regular past tense
This is two stories, woven into one. One story uses regular past tense and the other, irregular past tense verbs. Students have to sort out which story is which. (I have had this on my computer a long time, I am not sure if I wrote it or not!! I do not think it is stolen, but if anyone else has claims on this I apologise.) It is such an interes...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 35
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Writing - Round Robin
Arrange the class into small groups of 3, 4 or 5, sitting in a circle round a table and give each one a copy of the worksheet. Tell them to each fill out the beginning section of the sheet with their own ideas. Then when all have completed the first section, pass all the sheets to the right and each one complete the next section. Keep repeating ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 9
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Limericks Jigsaw
This worksheet is for intermediate / advanced students and helps them understand the rhythm of limericks. The first and third line of the limerick are given on the right, whilst the other lines are mixed up on the left. They have to know the rhythm and rhyme of limericks to complete them. Good luck!!
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 36
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Jolly Phonics - blending phonemes
This PowerPoint uses the first 12 letters prescribed by Jolly Phonics and can be used to demonstrate blending. The menu on the left is the list of words that are demonstrated and the buttons below allow the teacher to select the letters one at a time or to have them appear together with an arrow th...
Level: elementary
Age: 3-7
Downloads: 31
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Blockbusters Quiz Game - template
This looks plain, but is actually a template for the game �Blockbusters� where teams have to select questions either from top to bottom or left to right. Full instructions how to play the game are given in the handout notes at the bottom of slide one. In addition, to demonstrate the game there are...
Level: elementary
Age: 4-17
Downloads: 43
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Question game made as a jigsaw - template
This has been inspired by a contribution from Mulle in Norway who has a jigsaw type puzzle game. I wanted to make a template for it in Word, but found I could not get the words to print upside down (if anyone knows how, please let me know) With this template you print the slide and use it as a han...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 82
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Intelligence Test for students who think they are really clever!!!
Do not be deceived at the plain look of this presentation in the view window, you cannot see the content until you download it. This is a �light hearted� set of questions that will have your class saying "duh!!! I knew that!!!!) Try it yourself before trying it on the kids. This uses triggers, so...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 104
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Animal Face
This is a PowerPoint of a worksheet contributed by Luiza "Miss Williams" (used by permission) The preview will look very confusing but when presented it just shows the face. Click on each animal and it will reveal its name. There are instructions how to use this in the handout notes. I liked this...
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-17
Downloads: 59
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Kitchen Furniture - anagrams
This is a game where the slide presents all the furniture, in the form of words, but they are mixed up as anagrams. Organise the class into groups to solve as many of the anagrams as possiboe. Click on each anagram to reveal the correct word. See also the kitchen furniture matching presentation to...
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-17
Downloads: 8
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Kitchen furniture - Kim�s Game - pictures
This is a kim�s game where the slide presents all the furniture as a seies of pictures (no words), the next slide shows the same items with three of them missing. The class should be challenged to work out which 3 are missing. Click on the numbers to show the missing items. The final slide is instru...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-17
Downloads: 13
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Kitchen furniture - Kim�s game
This is a kim�s game where the slide presents all the furniture, the next slide shows the same items with three of them missing. The class should be challenged to work out which 3 are missing. Click on the numbers to show the missing items.
The final slide is instructions how to make more slides s...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-17
Downloads: 9
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Kitchen equipment and machinery - Matching
A matching exercise to introduce kitchen equipment. Put the class into small groups and have them match the letter with the object. To show the solution, simply click on the letter next to the picture. This is the first presentation in a series of KIm�s Game type of activities to test the memory ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-17
Downloads: 11
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Language and the brain
This has been uploaded in response to a query in the forum about brain lateralisation. It is a simple presentation for a very complex subject but hopefully demonstrates the significance of the differences between language learning and language acquisition. This is not a presentation for classroom ...
Level: advanced
Age: 13-17
Downloads: 49
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