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MIND OVER MATTER -five open-ended stories in worksheets
This is a collection of five of my open-ended stories organised in worksheets and to be used with upper-intermediate and advanced students. Each story covers a different genre (crime, SF, fantasy, horror, comedy) and also has additional vocabulary at the bottom of each for students to use. I hope you find it useful.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 423
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certificates for students
This is a collection of 8 different types of certificates to be handed out to students on different occasion for that little bit of extra motivation. I�ve used free cliparts and my own drawings. This is my first collection of this kind. I hope you find it useful. (Btw, each certificate has been grouped for easier compression and to prevent pics fro...
Level: elementary
Age: 5-17
Type: others
Downloads: 189
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CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP - advanced story writing
This is a collection of worksheets designed for advanced levels. It is based on an activity I sometimes do with my advanced level groups, and it inspires creative story writing offering some guided vocabulary. It also contains a list of 200 useful adjectives for teachers (with the link). I usually combine this type of activity with the ppt of the s...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 320
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CUTE ANIMALS - stories and worksheet
This is a collection of my 6 new, educational short stories about cute animals. Each story is on a separate card and has its own educational moral, so you can use it for a class discussion as well. The stories are about lying, being new, being different, being envious, etc. There is also a ws included, both in colour and b&w. You can use just this ...
Level: elementary
Age: 7-12
Type: Choose
Downloads: 159
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ALPHABET RIDDLES
Here you can find a riddle in rhyme for each letter of the alphabet, and suggested activities about teaching alphabet along with numbers. The riddles I wrote can be used just for fun, or even be performed for the parents. I hope you like them.
Level: elementary
Age: 7-12
Type: others
Downloads: 92
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TALES ABOUT TAILS - animal stories with writing activities
There are 2 animal stories with morals here, both with follow-up activity cards (not wss, so you can save some paper and toner), and then several activity cards for a writing workshop to inspire your sts to write in pairs or small groups. It can be fun. I hope you like it.
Level: elementary
Age: 7-12
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 144
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HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON - follow-up activities
This is a collection of texts about How to Train Your Dragon with suggested activities (to avoid too much fotocopying and engage sts to listen, read, speak and write. There is also a worksheet included with flexible writing activities for elementary and intermediate students. (You can also check out my ppt on the same topic, with a follow-up quiz, ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-17
Type: Choose
Downloads: 99
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MY GREAT GIANT BOARD GAME no.1 - FANTASY CHALLENGE
This is my pet project (thanks, Isabelucha, for finally motivating me to put it in pc instead of only having the hand-made version)- it�s a giant board game, where the pieces are your students, and you can play it outdoors or indoors (outdoors is so much more fun). The game is based on various fantasy stories from books and movies, and consists of ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-17
Type: Choose
Downloads: 265
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�ALLO�ALLO - short play for teenagers
This is a short play for intermediate teenagers. It is in printable b&w form on 2 pages to save space, so you can hand it out to your sts. I have also made a ppt which can be used for rehearsals or simply role-reading. It�s lots of fun and can be used along using an episode in a lesson, and teenagers love imitating different accents and the funny c...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: Choose
Downloads: 157
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WOMEN VS. MEN - FUN WITH The Tale of 2 Brains
Thanks to Fiona, I have discovered the world of Mark Gungor�s seminars for couples, which have inspired me to create this lesson plan. It is adaptable to elementary, intermediate and advanced adults. It�s a fun turn on the differences between women and men, based on a video from one of his seminars, but you can also use it if you don�t have the dis...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 232
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advanced Halloween workshop
This is a ppt I prepared for my intermediate and advanced teenage students. They love writing Halloween stories, but we usually do some brainstorming before the actual writing, so this ppt also has some vocab-expansion activities in the beginning. I had problems adding sounds, so feel free to add yo...
Level: advanced
Age: 11-17
Downloads: 45
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magic spells - reading and writing through magic
I created this ppt for a group game where I had mixed teams of preschool and teenage kids. It�s a very simple game of reading and then writing magic spells, using pictures and text. It�s easily printable (I used the printed version), but it�s useful because it makes kids use opposite adjectives (tur...
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-17
Downloads: 15
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wanted - enchanted or not...
This is a ppt with basic info on some magical creatures, like wanted posters without pics, for sts to guess the creature. It�s designed to start as simple reading in a game, which can then be turned into using the given info for writing short essays. Again, fairytales go well with Halloween, so it c...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-17
Downloads: 10
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FANTASY - CARTOONS AND MOVIES MIX-UP
This is a ppt with two tasks - to find mistakes in stories (Shrek 2, Robin Hood, Wizard of Oz, Minimoys, Stardust, Inkheart, Harry Potter, Little Mermaid, Lord of the Rings)and then to find mistakes in the spelling of fairytale words. I used it for a group game in summer camp, but since fairytales g...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-17
Downloads: 35
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tenses - when does it happen?
You know when your teenage or adult sts have covered most tenses in English, and there are always those who try to memorize the rules of usage instead of simply listening to the sentences to decide what happens when? So I made this ppt for my sts, to rely on their feelings about time, and only then ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Downloads: 69
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Past Simple - practical revision
This is a very simple ppt to revise the past simple tense. I used it with my kids and adults, and it was fun because we played it as games(each slide was one game) in 2 teams, and only made notes afterwards. I even used some exercises in a test later on.
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Downloads: 17
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Ever seen this woman?
Not one of my most colourful activities, but the lesson I had using this ppt turned out to be one of the most powerful and memorable experiences with teenagers. I had been looking for an interesting, unlike-typical-school history text to do with kids, when this text came to me via e-mail and stunned...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 58
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advanced levels - practice (CAE)
This is a ppt I used for my CAE group. It is made up from various exercises from books, free website practice and experience. It requires writing, speaking and English in use, but every 2-3 slides, there�s a short pop-word game to break the drill routine and stimulate the brain. I hope you find use ...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 159
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ALPHABET LESSON - SONG AND RHYME FOR KIDS
This is a rhyme I made up for my kids to add a word to each letter of the alphabet. They can perform it in front of the parents, adding signs for letters and movement for words, and you can add any alphabet song they like. My kids liked it a lot - I hope yours do, too.
Level: elementary
Age: 6-10
Downloads: 46
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FCE PRACTICE - use of English, speaking, writing
I prepared this FCE practice for my groups (highschoolers), using exercises from free web-sites, course books and experience. It concentrates on word formation (use of English), speaking and writing practice, and I use it with my advanced groups as practice, and then give them similar exercises as t...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 135
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