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Pumpkin Soup - A cooking verbs gap fill
This is a gap fill exercise I used during one of my English Speaking Cooking Workshops. The students prepare everything, while the soup is cooking, they do the gap fill. At the end of the class everybody is busy eating the soup they cooked. It�s an easy recipe for a tasty soup - enjoy. My students love those workshops.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 13
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A board game to practice the past simple tense - version 1
A fun board game - making excuses for being late meeting a friend, who has been waiting for several hours.
All the verbs in the game cards are in the present simple tense, in order to make the excuse, the correct past simple tense must be used.
Depending on their level, students can add little stories when making their excuses.
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 92
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A reading worksheet based on a recent Guardian arcticle
To make this worksheet, I used a recent Guardian article about a London hairdresser using the North Korean leader�s picture for an ad campaign. The article contains quite a number of wonderful adjectives. Students should use their own words to explain the meaning of the underlined vocabulary (11 adjectives and 1 noun).
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 38
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Carrot and Coriander Soup - a cooking verb gap fill
This is a gap fill exercise I used during one of my English Speaking Cooking Workshops. The students prepare everything, while the soup is cooking, they do the gap fill, basically remembering what they just did and putting the correct verb into the recipe. At the end of the class everybody is busy eating the soup they cooked. It�s an easy recipe fo...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 16
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A fun board game about making complaints and responding to complaints, loosely based on the comedy series Fawlty Towers
I used this game as a speaking activity after watching Fawlty Towers� �Waldorf Salad". While watching the students had to fill in a chart about who complains, to whom, why, and whether the problem was solved.
The game contains two A4 sheets (to be connected together as one board), one set of complaint cards and one set of response cards.
The stud...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: others
Downloads: 21
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A reading lesson about cheating in exams
The text is an article from The Daily Telegraph (August 2013) about widespread cheating during the National University Entrance Exam (gao kao) in China.
I included pre-reading discussion points, a pre-reading exercise, gist and detail questions as well as an after reading discussion.
My class enjoyed it very much (I had my husband reading it to t...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 35
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Potato and Chorizo Soup - a cooking verbs gap fill
This is a gap fill exercise I used during one of my English Speaking Cooking Workshops. The students prepare everything, while the soup is cooking, they do the gap fill. At the end of the class everybody is busy eating the soup they cooked. It�s an easy recipe for a tasty soup - enjoy. My students love those workshops.
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 11
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Carrot Coconut & Lime Soup - a cooking verb gap fill
This is a gap fill exercise I used during one of my English Speaking Cooking Workshops. The students prepare everything. While the soup is cooking, they do the gap fill - basically remembering what they just did and putting the correct verb into the recipe. At the end of the class everyone is busy eating the soup they cooked. It�s an easy recipe fo...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6
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A board game to practice the past simple tense - version 2
A variation of my past tense board game, this time aimed at school-aged kids - making excuses for not handing in homework. All the verbs in the game cards are in the present simple tense, in order to make the excuse, the correct past simple tense must be used. Depending on their level, students can add little stories when making their excuses.
Level: intermediate
Age: 6-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 47
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A listening or reading lesson about fear
This is a 45 minute listening or reading lesson about fear. I included the script (I recorded my husband reading it for a listening lesson, but it can easily be used be used for a reading lesson as well).
The lesson has pre task and after task discussion points as well as a grammar exercise about adjectives that describe fear and how they are used...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 36
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Food Idioms 2
The next one in my idiom series, this is a power point presentation of 36 food related idioms. I let my students guess and figure out the meaning, before I give them the definition - then they have to use the idiom to make sentences. This can be done as a game or competition. Enjoy!
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Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Downloads: 114
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Sport Idioms 3
The next one in my idiom series, this is a power point presentation of 33 sport related idioms. I let my students guess and figure out the meaning, before I give them the definition - then they have to use the idiom to make sentences. Where the origin of the idiom is not obvious, I put it in bracket...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Downloads: 99
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Idioms about men and women 3
The next one in my idiom series, this is a power point presentation of 32 idioms about men and women. I let my students guess and figure out the meaning, before I give them the definition - then they have to use the idiom to make sentences. This can be done as a game or competition. Enjoy!
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Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Downloads: 121
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Common Proverbs 3
This is a power point presentation of 30 common proverbs. I let my students guess and figure out the meaning, before I give them the definition. This can be done as a game or competition. Enjoy!
Due to file size restrictions I had to split the presentation into 3 parts, this is the third one.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Downloads: 127
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Idioms Describing People 1
The next one in my idiom series, this is a power point presentation of 38 idioms describing people. I let my students guess and figure out the meaning, before I give them the definition - then they have to use the idiom to make sentences. This can be done as a game or competition. Enjoy!
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Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Downloads: 138
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Common Proverbs 1
This is a power point presentation of 30 common proverbs. I let my students guess and figure out the meaning, before I give them the definition. This can be done as a game or competition. Enjoy!
Due to file size restrictions I had to split the presentation into 3 parts, this is the first one.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Downloads: 142
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Travel & Transport Idioms 4
The next one in my idiom series, this is a power point presentation of 33 travel and transport idioms. I let my students guess and figure out the meaning, before I give them the definition - then they have to use the idiom to make sentences. This can be done as a game or competition. Enjoy!
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Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Downloads: 98
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Idioms about Life & Death 2
The next one in my idiom series, this is a power point presentation of 29 idioms about life and death. I let my students guess and figure out the meaning, before I give them the definition - then they have to use the idiom to make sentences. This can be done as a game or competition. Enjoy!
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Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Downloads: 54
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Love Idioms 2
Just in time for Valentines Day, the next one in my idiom series, this is a power point presentation of 30 love related idioms. I let my students guess and figure out the meaning, before I give them the definition - then they have to use the idiom to make sentences. This can be done as a game or com...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Downloads: 116
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Clothing Idioms 3
This is a power point presentation of 26 clothing/fashion related idioms. I let my students guess and figure out the meaning, before I give them the definition - then they have to use the idiom to make sentences. This can be done as a game or competition. Enjoy!
Due to file size restrictions I had ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Downloads: 54
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