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Video: National Geographic Secrets Of The Taj Mahal
Pre-listening, vocabulary building and while watching activities for this 9 minute video about the Taj Mahal. I linked this to an activity about the seven wonders of the world.
Key included.
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Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 45
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How to avoid apostrophe catastrophes!
The worksheet uses photos (page 2) of real life mistakes using apostrophes. Students work through the exercises to match the mistakes with the apostrophe rules, thereby discovering some of the rules for apostrophe usage.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 3
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Feelings vocabulary
Students complete the gaps in the sentences, then complete some follow up activities (page two) in pairs to practice dialogues and look at opposites.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 29
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Reading: 10 management practices to throw overboard (Bloomberg Business Week)
Reading article with before reading activities (opinion writing and vocabulary) and after reading questions.
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Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 4
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Find the people- countries and nationalities activity
Students complete an activity to match the countries to the flags then write the nationalities. They then, in pairs, play a version of battleships with people "hidden" in their grid to practice asking questions and short answers.
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Level: elementary
Age: 11-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 5
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Video: Troy Davis execution- race vs rights- listening
Students do the pre-watching activity as a warm up to the topic of the death penalty. Then they listen and complete the blanks. There is a vocabulary activity afterwards.
There is a key on the second page.
This could be used in tandem with my reading activity about Tory Davis execution and the protests on Twitter: http://www.eslprintables.com/pr...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 26
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Vocab: Crime vocabulary pairs crossword
A pairs crossword activity to revise crime vocabulary. There�s a key on page 2.
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Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 1
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Reading: Newspaper article �US electronics chain offers free guns to TV subscribers�
A read and report lesson with an article from the Daily Telegraph, London (April 2011) with the headline: "US electronics chain offers free guns to TV subscribers".
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Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 13
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Treasure hunt- alphabet & have got
A treasure hunt, based on the battleships game, to review "have got" questions and short answers. It also reviews the 20 most frequent letters of the alphabet.
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Level: elementary
Age: 10-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 3
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Reading: France 24 website article about French and American views about the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case
A gap-fill article from the France 24 website about American and French views in the wake of the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case. I used this as a lead in to a discussion about sexual harassment and cultural differences.
This could be used in tandem with the video activity about his accuser: http://www.eslprintables.com/printable.asp?id=574786#thetop
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Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 12
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Idioms with by
A powerpoint to practice the authentic use of idioms with by:
By choice, by heart, by mistake, by ear, by name, by far, by sight, by chance.
The contexts are newspaper and website headlines.
Key:
1. heart
2. name
3. mistake
4. sight
5. chance
6. ear
7. far
8. choice
Thanks.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 22
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So and Such for emphasis/extremes
A presentation with examples showing when we use so and such for emphasis and extremes.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 17
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Introduction to the Passive Voice
An introduction to the passive using celebrities who commit crimes as the context (Hugh Grant and OJ Simpson). The presentation includes notes (quite detailed as I like a script!). Please excuse the references to Brazil, where I teach.
Hope it is helpful.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 6
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Word formation 2
There is a general introduction followed by a specific focus on suffixes -ful, -less and -able/ible and the prefixes for the opposites of adjectives.
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Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 21
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1st, 2nd and 3rd conditionals
A presentation with examples explanation and practice for 1st, 2nd and 3rd conditionals. Includes examples with unless and alternatives for "would".
Hope it helps.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 29
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Adverb position
Powerpoint outlining the rules for adverb position, including when there is more than only adverb in a sentence. Practice included at the end.
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Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 171
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Make and do
A simple presentation to elicit the phrases for make and do, to illustrate the rules at a basic level.
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Level: elementary
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 43
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Pronunciation: word formation- suffixes
A powerpoint linked to this one: http://www.eslprintables.com/powerpoint.asp?id=47827#this
Powerpoint reviews syllables and stressed syllables before looking at the pronunciation changes made by certain suffixes (as in the powerpoint) above.
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Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 43
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Reported speech
A presentation about reported speech including:
- introductory verbs
- tense changes and no tense changes
- pronoun changes
- changes to place and time
- modal verbs
- reported questions
- indirect commands & requests & suggestions
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Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 9
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Word formation
This presentation focusses on prefixes and suffixes in general, before looking specifically at forming nouns from verbs and adjectives.
I have included my notes on the presentation.
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Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 39
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