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Guy Fawkes� night: listening and vocabulary exercises
A vocabulary matching exercise, listening comprehension, and phrasal verbs exercise based on a listening text about Guy Fawkes� night on November 5th in the UK. (Link to mp3 file is included in the word document.) Source text is on p1, exercises on p2 and p3, answers on p4 and p5 of the word document.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 27
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Singapore: super trees - video and text comprehension
For the topic �space and exchange� - a video about green space in Singapore followed by two articles from which learners must extract key points. Final exercise offers some open-ended discussion questions. Would be well suited to small group work or homework. (Answers to the video comprehension are provided on the last page of the document.)
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 24
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ACT or SAT practice: delete/add text elements (topic: traditional medicine)
An exercise about text comprehension at a deeper level. Readers must decide how deleting a portion of the text would affect the meaning. Other questions ask whether certain elements should be added to the text, and if so, where would be best.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 18
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Preferences, likes and dislikes: sentence builder
A writing frame/grid showing how to build sentences about likes and dislikes. A good support to help beginners scaffold a written piece or a simple speech about likes and dislikes.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-100
Type: others
Downloads: 16
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Participles used as adjectives: cards
A set of adjectives ending in -ed or -ing for students to use to create random sentences. Good plenary or warm-up activity.
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100
Type:
Downloads: 10
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IVE pronunciation in English
A handout showing the two main ways of pronouncing the letter combination IVE in English - as in �give� or as in �five.�
Special consideration is given to the problem of live/live/alive/lives.
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100
Type:
Downloads: 12
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Easily confused words: will, would, want, would like
An overview of 4 easily confused and misused verb structures: will, would, would like, want.
There are simple exercises to practise the question and negative form of these structures, and then reading comprehensions and questions which use the structures in context.
Answers are provided on p4 of the document.
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 15
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Prepositions training: advanced
An extract from H.G. Wells with prepositions exercises which increase in difficulty (gap-fill from choices, correcting wrong sentences and free gap-fill). Designed to prepare learners for ACT and SAT style exams. C2+ level.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 42
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News article and exercises: penguin research robot
A news article (from The Guardian) about a very cute robot which was disguised as a baby penguin to help study penguin behaviour in the wild.
Exercises: true/false, vocabulary, extended comprehension, phrasal verbs, word formation.
Answers provided.
Level: advanced
Age: 13-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 82
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Music and music preferences pairwork discussion activity
Questions about music and music preferences; useful phrases to include in answers. Pupils work in pairs or small groups. Suggested activity: they interview each other using the questions provided. Each time a pupil answers a question, they must draw one of the phrase cards (p2) from a hat or envelope and include that phrase in their answer. Increas...
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 27
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