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** Would you pass the US citizenship test? ** THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTS ABOUT THE USA ** (Question cards 21 � 30)
Here come over 70 questions immigrants wanting to become Americans must be able to answer in a civics test. American history, the constitution, famous Presidents, - it�s America in a nutshell !
The questions are selected from a list of 100 sample questions. I will leave out all questions that refer to certain states only or to present political ...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 78
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Politically correct English ;-))
Do we call someone LAZY ? Oh no, not any more!!! In the year 2009 we are politically correct and call him or her MOTIVATIONALLY DEFICIENT !
We don�t say a person is UGLY but use the term COSMETICALLY DIFFERENT. And guess what we call someone instead of saying he�s a COUCH POTATO?? Look it up in the cartoon on page 3.
This worksheet for advance...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 57
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* Vocabulary revision and brainstorming game # 4*
4 Pages, with detailed instructions. This is the fourth set of cards in a series of 4. Look out for the others. Students play in groups around a table. The above cards name different categories in which they have to find as many words as possible. The first student turns over a card and everybody writes down as many words from this word field as c...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 30
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** Vocabulary revision and brainstorming game # 3**
2 Pages, with detailed instructions For variations look at # 1 and 2. ---- This is the third worksheet in a series of 4. Look out for the others. Students play in groups around a table. The above cards name different categories in which they have to find as many words as possible. The first student turns over a card and everybody writes down as man...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 18
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*Vocabulary revision and brainstorming # 2*
3 Pages, Detailed instructions and variations on page 3! ---- Look at yesterday�s worksheet, too! Students play in groups around a table. The above cards name different categories in which they have to find as many words as possible. The first student turns over a card and everybody writes down as many words from this word field as come to their mi...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 22
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** Vocabulary revision and brainstorming game # 1**
3 Pages, Detailed instructions and variationa on page 3! ----
Students play in groups around a table. The above cards name different categories in which they have to find as many words as possible.
The first student turns over a card and everybody writes down as many words from this word field as come to their mind. After one or two minutes they...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 21
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Emotions please! - Or: Why was Susan furious at the beach? - Because Tom stole her bikini top!
Pupils must combine two things that apparently have nothing to do with each other (an emotion and a place) and make up a connection between the two. Great fun when played fairly rapidly and when pupils come up with funny and creative answers.
�Why was Tom surprised in the supermarket?� - �Because the milk bottles started talking to him�
�Why was...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 5
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How to write an interior monologue
In my country students are sometimes asked to write an interior monologue when studying literature. Here is a simple guide explaining what interior monologue is and helping them to write one.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 16
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Asking questions about a crazy teacher
This exercise is designed to make pupils ask questions with the question words �where, whose, who, how, why, which, what, when�. Questions must be asked in four different tenses (indicated by the sentences on the sheet). I admit I like to make things a bit different or crazy because I think pupils get enough boring conventional stuff in the cours...
Level: elementary
Age: 11-14
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 17
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How many words can you find?
THREE PAGES - This is for students after two years of "serious" English. They are asked to find a certain amount of words for certain subjects (5 holiday words, 6 things that are noisy, 5 garden words, 8 things they don�t like ...). When they have finished they compare with their partner - and only the words that the partner HASN�T got count. So ...
Level: elementary
Age: 10-12
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7
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