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            Talking about the weather - verb tenses 
            
            This is a simple worksheet on weather focussing attention on the difference between past, present and future.  Students match sentence stems with endings and then write their own sentences about the weather yesterday, today and tomorrow. 
             
            Level: elementary 
            Age: 8-17 
            Type: worksheet 
            Downloads: 2
            
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            Informal letter past simple 
            
            Students read a personal letter which includes a recount and must find errors with the verbs, changing them to past simple forms. 
             
            Level: intermediate 
            Age: 12-17 
            Type: worksheet 
            Downloads: 32
            
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            Signs with symbols 
            
            Here are 2 pages of simple signs with symbols; students must match the word descriptions and write them next to the appropriate sign.   Hope you and your students find it helpful!
             
            Level: elementary 
            Age: 10-17 
            Type: worksheet 
            Downloads: 14
            
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            Phonics - short vowel discrimination 
            
            This is a simple worksheet where the names of the pictures are read aloud to students to see if they can correctly hear and write the short vowel sounds.  Words are big/bug/bag; pin/pan/pen; top/tap/tip.
Since uploading I have realised that the picture for tap doesn�t come out in the old Word format, you should be able to fix it by selecting the...
            
             
            Level: elementary 
            Age: 6-17 
            Type: worksheet 
            Downloads: 7
            
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            Words to describe sounds 
            
            This is a worksheet to help students think about ways to describe sounds in their story writing.  The first exercise asks them to match words about sounds with the things that cause those sounds.  In the second exercise they have to think of an example of what would make each sound.  I�ve included a few pictures at the bottom which might give them ...
            
             
            Level: intermediate 
            Age: 10-17 
            Type: worksheet 
            Downloads: 16
            
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            An email invitation 
            
            Here students are provided with a prompt to write an informal email to a friend inviting them to stay for a holiday, with a blank email to write their message on. 
             
            Level: intermediate 
            Age: 12-17 
            Type: worksheet 
            Downloads: 68
            
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            A Private Conversation 
            
            This is a simple narrative story which students must discuss and edit.  I use this after we have done some work on use of adjectives, adverbs and interesting vocabulary to improve the quality of writing. 
             
            Level: intermediate 
            Age: 12-17 
            Type: worksheet 
            Downloads: 3
            
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            Last Man Standing 
            
            This activity involves viewing a short video (url is on the sheet) about Stephen Bradbury, an Australian who won Olympic gold in ice skating after all his competitors fell; there are some preparatory discussion questions and a vocabulary activity.  Students are then asked to plan and write a narrative based on what they have viewed. 
             
            Level: intermediate 
            Age: 10-17 
            Type: worksheet 
            Downloads: 13
            
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            Greeting cards 
            
            Students complete greeting card message cloze exercise, decide which type of card each message is suited for (sometimes more than one option), then write extended messages on 2nd page. (Word limits are to suit our certificate requirements and can of course be reduced). 
             
            Level: intermediate 
            Age: 14-17 
            Type: worksheet 
            Downloads: 29
            
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            Is it far? 
            
            A short reader using words with ar sound (far, car, park, dark, farm).  If you photocopy the pages back to back in order and fold them one inside the other, they will make a book that reads "Let�s go out in the car. Let�s go out to the farm. Oh no, it�s too far! We will get home in the dark. Well, let�s go to the park. Oh yes, that�s not far. But w...
            
             
            Level: elementary 
            Age: 5-17 
            Type: reading 
            Downloads: 0
            
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