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Adjectives and adverbs - word formation: guide + 5 exercises with key
WS designed to help students improve their vocabulary and writing skills. Main focus on the adverb. 5 exercises. Page 1: grammar guide with rules. Task 1: common adverbs in conversation (matching exercise). Task 2: complete: noun --> adjective --> adverb. Task 3: Change the expressions into an adverb, keeping the meaning of the sentence. Task 4: Fi...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 429


 
This is my family!
Family tree + 7 exercises. Voc: family members + jobs. Grammar: possessive case, possessive adjectives, subject pronouns. Ex.1: possessive case + possessive adjectives. Ex.2: family memembers + possessive adjectives. Ex.3: jobs. Ex.4: subject pronoun or possessive adj;? Ex.5: is or �s? Ex.6: reorder sentences Ex.7: interview.
Level: elementary
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 1753


 
Dancing with the Devil - Reading comprehension
Spooky story for Halloween!! The text can be found here: http://www.americanfolklore.net/folktales/tx3.html, but the worksheet is entirely mine. My students often reject reading at the beginning of the year. Just to show them that even a long text can be understood. Contents: text, identification of the document, general and detailed comprehension ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 60


 
Comparatives: superiority, equality, inferiority
Grammar explanations on the 3 comparative forms mentioned above. Six exercises with gradual difficulty. The preview shows a mistake in the layout - again, and once again I don�t know why!
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 693


 
They WANT ME TO feel ridiculous!
WANT SOMEBODY TO DO SOMETHING. Five exercises with growing difficulty. It�s hard to make them memorize this structure, don�t you think so?
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 293


 
What do you look like?
For a first approach to physical description. Order of the adjectives. Trying to avoid the confusion between BE and HAVE GOT.
Level: elementary
Age: 6-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 193


 
Expressing anxiety, regrets and reproach - guide and exercises. KEY included
Guide and exercises to learn/revise how to express anxiety (fear sb might/should do sth / What if...?), regrets in the past (wish + had + past participle) and reproach (could/should + have + past participle). The students first have to read a situation and fill in the blanks with the appropriate expression, then they have to rephrase sentences acco...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: grammar-guide
Downloads: 189


 
Fun and phonetics: Christmas tongue-twisters II
4 pages. Read and match + phonetics (3 exercises, rules) + set of 16 cards to play with the class. I know that tongue-twisters are not a favourite on ESL printables, but it�s a great way of making Ss mind their pronunciation. Have fun!
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 442


 
Interview your grandparents - USED TO
Interview using USED TO (affirmative, negative, interrogative) (items provided), recap using the 3rd person and adding info (review simple past), discussion topic (compare your childhood to that of your grandparents). See also my grammar explanation and exercises (pink layout). The colours look dirty and the few lines written in the bottom right-ha...
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 198


 
When I was young, I used to have many boyfriends
Grammar explanation and 5 exercises to practise USED TO, DIDN�T USE TO, DID... USE TO + V? . The last 2 exercises are destined to the best students (more complex sentences). See also my WS (blue layout). Have a nice day!
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 183

 

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SONG. Pearl Jam Last Kiss - audio / visual word discrimation and past simple
THUMBNAIL PREVIEW LACKS PICTURES. 1. Listen to the song and choose the correct option (the options look or sound alike, it helps the students work on phonetics as well as on the past simple tense!) 2. Write the words of the song corresponding to the picture (to help them understand the story). I to...

Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100


BBC Sherlock - AGO and LATER + past simple
An exercise to reinforce the use of the past simple and to discriminate "ago" and "later", which I found was easier to teach at the same time this year.

Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100


Describe Sherlock�s house.
VOCABULARY/ FURNITURE + VERBS 1. Choose the correct option. THERE WAS/WERE 2. Choose the correct option

Level: intermediate
Age: 9-100


Robert Pattinson - writing a biography
2 exercises to help building a coherent biography 1. Write the different pieces of information in the correct box and choose the verb you can use to make the corresponding sentence. 2. Choose the correct option (correct use of tenses, especially present simple and past simple)

Level: intermediate
Age: 11-100