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Reading: A Call for Beijing to Loosen Its Grip on the Economic Reins (New York Times)
A New York Times unabridged article about China�s economy. It includes before reading, while reading and after reading activities.
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Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 3
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Passive voice- newspaper article
A lesson plan for a reading exercise looking at the passive voice. The article is from the Daily Mail newspaper (UK) about the arrest of a TV soap opera star. The lesson plan focusses on the usage of the passive rather than structure and form.
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Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 84
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Reading: Measuring the Efficacy of the World�s Managers (Harvard Business School)
An authentic article from Harvard Business School (unabridged), including pre-reading activities, vocabulary building, while reading comprehension and after reading opinion questions.
The article starts on page 3.
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Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 7
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The Butterfly Color Song- colours
Students watch the video of the butterfly colour song (link included on page two- you tube video) and complete the activities, they then sing the song and draw their favourite butterfly. This is a nice colour review, there is a number activity as well. My students love this song, it�s very relaxing
P.s. If, like me, you don�t have a colour print...
Level: elementary
Age: 5-11
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 3
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Reading and Webquest: Artist Van Gogh and the Museum
A reading and webquest article. Student must first find the art related vocabulary in the text, then look at the van Gogh museum website to fill in the paragraph headings and find out other information about the museum.
Links and key included.
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Level: advanced
Age: 13-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 16
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Adele- Hometown Glory
Listen to the song and delete the extra words.
Key:
Line 5- to
Line 7- then
Line 9- the
Line 11- I�m
Line 13- so
Line 15- that
Line 17- our
Line 19- the
Line 21- will
Line 23- is
Line 25- not
Line 27- us
Line 29- big
Line 32- have
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Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 9
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Sports vocabulary gap fill
A gap fill activity for upper intermediate and above students. The subject is the Brazilian football league so might be of interest to those students living in Brazil or with an interest in the Brazilian football league.
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Level: advanced
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7
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You read, I write: weddings, marriage and relationship vocabulary
Students take it in turns to read their text to their pair. Demonstrate that the students need to say blank or mmm to indicate where there is a gap. If students did not hear or understand the word, they should ask their partner �can you repeat that please?� or �can you spell that please?�. Arrange the class into pairs: A and B. Ask pairs A and B to...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 18
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Paraphrasing: worksheet and game
Page 1 is a worksheet to introduce paraphrasing structures.
Page 2 has a dominoes game for students to practice the phrases.
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Elise
Level: elementary
Age: 7-10
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 16
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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: 44
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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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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: 170
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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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Have- causative verb
A presentation with examples and practice for have as a causative verb.
Hope it helps.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 21
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Reported speech: Introductory verbs of reporting
A powerpoint with a quick review to reported speech, followed by introductory verbs of reporting (agree, insist etc.) and the verb patterns with which they are used.
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Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 76
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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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Adverbs
An overview of adverbs including:
Adverbs modifying advectives, past participles etc.
Adverb formation
Spelling rules
Adverbs and adjectives with same form
Adjectives with an adverb form
Adverbs with two forms
Adverb form in informal English.
Goes well with this game: http://www.onestopeng...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 34
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Adjectives and adverbs: gradable & ungradable
A powerpoint showing gradabale and ungradable adjectives and the adverbs of degree and intensity that can be combined with them.
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Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 30
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Vocab: Famous crimes
A powerpoint to elicit the famous crimes. Each example gives the crime, verb and criminal.
I teach in Brazil so have given three local examples that would need to be substituted. Or, if anyone knows an international example for: drug trafficking, mugging and rape, let me know and I�ll edit it.
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Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 13
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Expressing purpose
Powerpoint outlining structures to use when talking about Someone`s purpose, An object�s purpose, Judgements, More than sufficient/necessary, Sufficient (or not).
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Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 10
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