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Nicola5052
Nicola Rose
United Kingdom



I hope you enjoy using my resources - I love the fact that my work might be used around the world!!!

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Create your own fairytale worksheet
A worksheet to develop the imaginative use of adjectives and story-telling. Students have to complete the story as they wish and then share their ideas with each other. I found taking different ideas from various students and combining them made for a really funny story while, at the same time, reinforcing the use of adjectives for description. ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 52


 
Giving and asking for opinions, agreeing and disagreeing
Lexis for giving and asking for opinions and then agreeing and disagreeing. The list starts at elementary level and gets progressively more difficult so can be used to elicit ideas from all levels. I found it a good memory aid for myself and then asked students to use a selection in class discussions.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 184


 
Do you like?
A basic frame for a conversation class based on like/don�t like. Encourages students to talk to others and then practise third person when reporting back.
Level: elementary
Age: 5-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 1


 
Writing personal information - editable
A very basic writing frame for students to subsitute words for their own details. I work with teenagers many of whom are pre-literate or are not used to writing in the Roman alphabet. Copying a basic frame like this and inserting their own details gives a real sense of achievement. I imagine this would be useful for young children too for basic ...
Level: elementary
Age: 5-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 28


 
Sports matching with follow up conversation/writing exercise
A 2 page worksheet for matching sports vocab (some unusual words too) with a follow up page for conversation and writing about likes and dislikes. Thanks to charmed one for template.
Level: elementary
Age: 5-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 26


 
What do I say 2? Cultural conventions and how to say the right thing
Learn what to say in different situations. Match the responses to the dialogues. Template by charmed one - thank you. Content adapted from Clockwise pre-int resource pack.
Level: elementary
Age: 5-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 64


 
Idioms with ***** and ******* worksheet
A gap-fill worksheet to raise awareness of idioms that take the form ******* and *********** (bright and breezy, fair and square etc etc)
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 17


 
Common errors
A worksheet for learners to find the mistake in each sentence - all quite difficult and very common mistakes made. This worksheet tests students ability to spot mistakes made by others - grammar, spelling and punctuation. I usually put students in teams to see who can find the most - the competitive spirit always guarantees much more attention and...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 85


 
Opposites/antonyms game
A really good interactive opposites game. Copy onto card or laminate, and cut into individual cards. Distribute to students according to how you wish to play the game. It can either be used as a straightforward matching game in groups/pairs or as a team game to find your matching card. Alternatively it could be a mingle activity if you have roo...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 23


 
Animal Pictionary - 20 more unusual animals
Animal pictionary to go with word search and matching/gap-fill exercise also being uploaded.
Level: elementary
Age: 5-17
Type: flash-card
Downloads: 38

 


Appearance and personality words
A short but sweet ppt on basic vocab for describing appearance and personality

Level: elementary
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 13


Future forms - an explanation and examples of all ways to express the future
Slides to show all ways to express the future giving examples for each form.

Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
Downloads: 98


The Past Continuous - 8 page grammar guide
A step by step grammar guide on the form and use of the past continuous.

Level: elementary
Age: 5-17
Downloads: 14


Expanding Sentences
A PPT to help develop writing skills - step-by-step build a sentence adding adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions and pronouns. Helps students see how they can make sentences more interesting.

Level: elementary
Age: 5-17
Downloads: 25


Improving your punctuation
Part of a series of ppts. A 27 page ppt to help learners with how to use punctuation correctly. This includes: commas, full stops, colons, semicolons, exclamation marks, question marks, capital letters, apostrophes, quotation marks, hyphens, dashes, brackets. Really helped with improving my stude...

Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 38


Spelling strategies and rules
A 34 page ppt to help with the problem of spelling. Part of a series of ppts. This one deals with reasons for incorrect spellings, strategies to identify problems and deal with them as well as spelling rules for, amongst others, plurals, -ing and -ed spellings, -ly spellings, -er and -est spelling...

Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 31


Some, Any, Have you got, How much, Shopping list
A 12 page powerpoint I used to cover some and any and then use them to have a shopping activity using "Have you got any ...? How much is ....? Do they have any ....?. etc etc There are sheets with shopping lists, pictures of food, target vocab etc, adapt as necessary. Also used realia to add int...

Level: elementary
Age: 8-17
Downloads: 11


The verb �to be� in the present simple - positve/neg/question forms
A clear explanation of the present simple �to be� which can be put on an interactive whiteboard or printed as a handout for reference purposes.

Level: elementary
Age: 5-17
Downloads: 28


Adverbs of frequency
Adverbs of frequency powerpoint showing where to place them within the sentence

Level: intermediate
Age: 6-17
Downloads: 8


Active vs Passive
A comparison of a sentence in the active followed by a slide to elicit the same idea in the passive. All tenses are covered.

Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 13


Grammar terms - word class
A quiz to practise the parts of speech. Students have to choose between adjectives, nouns, adverbs, verbs, conjunctions, articles, pronouns, etc

Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100