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Could you have food intolerance?
This is a text about food intolerance, which affects more and more people nowadays. The first letter of some words in the text have been taken out, so students have to guess from context what the incomplete words are and fill in the blanks with the missing letters. Discussion questions follow the exercise, and on the third and fourth pages you hav...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 10
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Questions to ask yourself at the turn of the year
This is meant as a conversation guide, containing 20 questions which might be useful in assessing the year that is about to end. The questions can help students to reflect on what went wrong and what went well, at the same time they practice talking about their feelings, opinions, and past events.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 18
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Christmas conversation questions
These conversation questions come with and without blanks. If you use them with blanks, the conversation activity can also be used to review vocabulary and structure. I suggest you cut the strips and put them in a box. Then play a song while the students pass the box around. When the music stops, the student who has the box picks up a question, r...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 18
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Auxiliary verbs Do or Does or the verb To Be in confirmation questions
Auxiliary verbs is a difficult concept to grasp when students don�t have them in their native language. I developed this material to contrast the use of Do, Does, Is and Are in confirmation questions. After the questions are completed and corrected, students interview each other, turning the task into a conversation activity.
Level: elementary
Age: 10-100
Type:
Downloads: 24
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Dominique Strauss-Kann: culprit or victim?
This is a different kind of reading comprehension activity. Its aim is to discuss current international news while teaching new vocabulary. The answers are on the second page.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 2
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Rehab by Amy Winehouse
Students are supposed to pick out the "alien" word in each verse of the song and unscramble it so as to turn it into a "real word". To make it more challenging, the alien words are not marked in any way, but to make it less frustrating, the first letter of each alien word was kept in its right place.
There is no need for an answer sheet because y...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7
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Father and Son by Cat Stevens
This song is nice to use as a warm up for discussions about family relationships. The vocabulary is not hard, and its pace is slow enough for students to follow easily. I made the activity so as to also raise awareness about parts of speech.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 26
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Ethnic jokes and stereotype
I made this material to use with New English File Upper Intermediate lesson on national stereotypes, but it can be used on its own. Although this worksheet was intended for reading and writing practice, I think jokes are also a great tool to discuss ethnic stereotypes and prejudice, which can be very mean and untrue. So this material can also lead ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 20
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Halloween Riddles
Match the riddles with their answers. Be aware of the play on words!
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 9
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Memory: what it is and how it works
Memory is essencial in learning a language, so I read a lot about this topic. I came across this text that explains how we store and retrieve information in our brain, and I thought students would be interested in this topic too, so I turned this article into a reading comprehension activity. Some words were scrambled, and students have to rely on...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 17
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Christmas symbols
This is an activity to teach or practice Christmas vocabulary (Christmas symbols).
I use it as a game in groups: for each round, we roll the dice and that is the number of points each word will be worth. If, say, they roll the dice and get a seven, they will get seven points if the know the word, m...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Downloads: 18
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