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Space exploration timeline
This worksheet presents a basic timeline of how space exploration has developed since the late 1950�s.
It can be used as na introduction to the topic "New Worlds to be discovered / explored" and it is also a good starting pointo to have students think about how tachnology has evolved during this period and how fierce the competition in this area w...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 22
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Word search on jobs
A word search activity that requires students to find 30 jobs - jobs that consist of more than one word (e.g. - computer technician) have the two words shown one right after the other, with no separation in between them.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 28
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Save Miguel - Guidelines
Save Miguel (www.savemiguel.com) is a campaign (by an environmentalist organization and by a cork industry) meant to promote the usage of cork (instead of plastic - cork is not only natural and recyclable, but it also promotes a very large absortion of CO2) and to protect cork oak forests, which are a natural habitat for many endangered species.
T...
Level: elementary
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 9
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Dependent prepositions - practice exercises
These are practice exercises on dependent prepositions in very short texts referring to jobs. Answers are included at the end of the file (page 2).
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 24
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Noughts and crosses
This printable is to be covered (digitally - with the black highlighter - which instead of highlighting anything, covers it - or merely with some post-it notes, if you work with an overhead projector) so that the teacher can control that ss only see one question at a time.
A noughts and crosses scheme is to be drawn (on the board, on a very large ...
Level: elementary
Age: 6-17
Type: others
Downloads: 5
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Food Domino D
This is file four out of six.
If you are curious about this, look for the files Food Domino A, Food Domino B and Food Domino C - preparation and usage are explained there.
This specific file is differentr from all the previous ones because I had to remove some of the pictures that are meant to be there, in order to make the file small enough to ...
Level: elementary
Age: 6-14
Type: others
Downloads: 3
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Defining and non-defining relative clauses - practice exercises
Practice exercises on defining and non-defining relativa clauses - ss are first asked to insert the adequate relative in each sentence, and then they move on to having to combine two sentences in one, using a previously chosen relative pronoun.
Once these have been done, ss are then directed to more specific topics, for which they need to know the...
Level: intermediate
Age: 17-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 49
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Exercises on If-Clauses
This worksheet presents four levels of exercises on conditional sentences (A - The conditional type is given and students are to: 1 - fill in the blanks; 2 - complete the sentences according to their own imagination; B - fill in the blanks in the sentences where conditional types are mixed; C - Rewriting exercises), which may serve as a way of deal...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 39
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Mirror, mirror, on the wall
Sally is a very insecure teenager who sees a very distorted image of herself when she looks in the mirror.
Ss are asked to reflect upon it and then very briefly describe her (in one or two sentences), both physically and psychologically. In a second exercise, they are asked to read a text about beauty as a social construction in order to spot and ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 17
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Working in catering
This is a reading comprehension worksheet on a very specific job (catering) which is now becoming more and more popular.
It refers to different things involved in the job, and is particularly adequate for ss in vocational schooling, as it helps them to better describe what they do.
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 58
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Meet the Clarksons
This is a game which ss play by clicking on the correct answers; if they do so, they move on to the next question until they get to the end of it. If they click on a wrong answer, they will be given a second chance.
The questions include the adequate means of transportation for the Clarkson family ...
Level: elementary
Age: 7-12
Downloads: 4
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Expressing obligation - have to - must - mustn�t
A simple and easy way to draw students attention to the fact that both "must/have to" and "mustn�t" express obligation, and the "mustn�t" is not the negative of "must".
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Downloads: 31
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Fashion Quiz
This powerpoint consists only of one slide, which works as a quiz on students� awareness of fashion (mostly, on their awareness of who was important in creating things that are now a part of their everyday-life).
It�s a soft way to introduce the topic "Fashion" / clothes.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 8
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Questions on TV programmes
These questions are meant to have ss start talking about different types of TV programmes and discuss their preferences; as ss name their favourite TV programmes, the teacher can register (on the board) the name of the programme and the type of show it is, and from here other types of programmes can...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Downloads: 7
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Language in use - past simple vs. present perfect
Past simple tense (usage) vs. present perfect tense (form and usage).
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Downloads: 33
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The inner structure of a traditional piece of news
This is a short powerpoint presentation to show the three most common parts of a traditional piece of news - headline + lead paragraph + text. It can be used to guide ss in writing when working on the topic news / media. For obvious reasons, pictures and the subtitlies that go with them are not dea...
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
Downloads: 9
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Phrasal verbs with turn
Powerpoint with phrasal verbs made from "turn" - the most common meanings are explained with a clear definition and a practical example of how each can be used.
Verbs with similar or opposite meanings are grouped in the same slide to help ss compare and contrast them as to meaning and usage.
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
Downloads: 15
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Reported speech
A powerpoint presentation showing the changes to be made from direct speech to reported speech - verb tenses, modal verbs, pronouns and adverbs (both time and place). The vocabulary used in examples focusses mainly on the topic "media", namely on Rageh Omar (the journalist).
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
Downloads: 37
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Modal verbs
This PowerPoint explains the most common usage of modal verbs, giving specific information about the limits to the usage of each one of them and illustrating the contents with specific examples (whenever necessary, the sentences in which modals are used come as a part of two- or three-long sentence ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Downloads: 49
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