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Pronunciation Tongue Twisters - Organized by IPA Minimal Pairs
This worksheet contains six IPA sound groupings, divided into sections, that students studying English often find difficult. Each section has two sentences that each use many sounds from that section, grouped tightly together.
The result is a difficult and humorous pronunciation activity.
Although designed for East Asian students, these soun...
Level: intermediate
Age: 6-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 49
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Nuclear Holocaust Role Play
In this activity, students will work in groups to decide which people should be allowed to help repopulate the world after a nuclear holocaust. Students must select people based on their abilities according to available resources.
Great problem-solving speaking activity.
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 43
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English is Difficult (Even for native speakers!) - Bushisms and Quayleisms
A two-page collection of real quotes from George Bush and Dan Quayle which have either grammar or logic problems. Have higher level students read these and try to discover the problems with each quote.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 16
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English Homonyms
An interesting worksheet with 15 different sentences, all using two words with the same sound but different spellings and different meanings. For example, blue (colour) and blew (past tense of "blow"). Students must decide what the homonyms are and what the meaning of each homonym is.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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Tongue Twister Poetry
Cute poems designed to be difficult to pronounce. Use these readings to help students develop their English pronunciation.
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 16
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What would you do if...
In this activity, I usually get students to work in pairs or small groups, and give them one of the situations listed. For example, "What would you do if a bear attacked you?" Students must then use only three items in the worksheet to solve the situation.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 20
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Error Correction - Demonstrative Pronouns and Singular vs Plural - This, That, These, Those
Students must decide if each sentence correctly uses the demonstrative pronouns this, that, these, those with the appropriate plural or singular items and the plural and singular verbs "is" and "are."
Level: elementary
Age: 5-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7
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Physical Appearance - Grammar, Vocabulary and Activity
This is a two page file with the first page focusing on a grammar trick for using "is" or "has" for describing people. The trick is that you use "has" when you can take something off or out and "is" when you cannot. For example, "He HAS blue eyes" and "She IS tall" because you could potentially take out someone�s eyes, but you could never take "t...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 12
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How to Make Riddles
A nice little activity demonstrating to students how they can make their own professional-looking riddle-poems. Have students go through the examples and then work through the instructions below.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 5
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Modes of Communication
This business English activity is BOTH individual and pair work. First, students must try to guess the correct vocabulary that is missing on each of their sheets. Then, students will pair off with one student using the "Partner A" sheet and the other using the "Partner B" sheet. Students will then try to read their answers to each other while th...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 58
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