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AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH -ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS #1 (Listening Activity)
Last year (2007), we were discussing the effects of global warming in class and we had already read many articles, listened to an interview with Tom Flannery and guess what? I�ve discovered that teenagers are not worried with the environment and the consequences of global warming upon it. So, I took two excerpts from the scene "The solutions are in...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 59
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Storytelling - scary spooky story (listening)
I was teaching my students the use of the past tenses in narratives, especially the Past Perfect Tense and the Past Simple and after working with a short scary story from a book, I decided to use another one as an evaluation. I�ve found the audio in the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P11fo00WLMM .
Unfortunately, there was no transcript, so...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 28
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FRIENDS - "The One Where They All Turn Thirty" #1 (listening activity)
My students like "Friends" and what�s better to work with phrasal verbs and other structures from everyday English than the episodes of this sitcom? I showed the students only excerpts of the episode (check the script in the file) and it was perfect. it was the first time in my life I�ve seen students laughing during an evaluation! This is the fir...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 48
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Friends - "The One Where They All Turn Thirty" #2 (listening activity)
My students like "Friends" and what�s better to work with phrasal verbs and other structures from everyday English than the episodes of this sitcom? I showed the students only excerpts of the episode (check the script in the file) and it was perfect. it was the first time in my life I�ve seen students laughing during an evaluation! This is the sec...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 43
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AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH - ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS #2 (Listening Activity)
Last year (2007), we were discussing the effects of global warming in class and we had already read many articles, listened to an interview with Tom Flannery and guess what? I�ve discovered that teenagers are not worried with the environment and the consequences of global warming upon it. So, I took two excerpts from the scene "The solutions are in...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 44
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Used to, Chris Daughtry (song activity)
I used this song last year with my intermediate students. Chris Daughtry was not the winner from one of the editions of American Idol, but I liked his voice and his style. So, as I had to review the structure �used to� recently taught, I decided to use a song and also work with reading comprehension and improve the students� vocabulary. To my surpr...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 8
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Future Arrangements
A video activity to introduce the notion of future arrangements for the Present Continuous Tense.
Level: elementary
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 11
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FAMILY TIES - TIC-TAC-TOE
An interesting game to stimulate students in the reviewing of family relationships and the possessive case. Students love it!
You can add many other itens to it!
Level: elementary
Age: 3-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 12
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PASSIVE VOICE - MEANING AND USE
I`ve created this activity to make students think about why the passive voice is chosen in some contexts - my intention was to show them it has a meaning and a function and not only a form.
They loved it!
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6
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Writing paragraphs (Writing Activity)
A quick activity when teachers want to stimulate their elementary students to write a small paragraph. After doing the two first activities, students have to write about themselves. They feel excited (specially teens)because they feel secure about their learning ("I can write a paragraph!" "I know how to write in English!").
Level: elementary
Age: 3-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 14
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