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Role plays / Situation cards: a holiday in an English-speaking country
A set of 12 situations which a visitor might encounter on a visit to an English-speaking country. To stimulate role-play and "survival English".
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 173
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Reading comprehension: China bans celebrities� children from appearing on reality TV shows
Article from BBC News about a ban on Chinese celebrities� children appearing on TV.
Pre-reading discussion questions and vocabulary, post-reading true/false/not in text questions, vocabulary matching and gap-fill, role-plays based on the text.
Answers are provided.
This would fit into a unit on TV, media, press freedom, celebrities and fame, rig...
Level: advanced
Age: 11-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 67
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2 news articles and reading comprehension questions about animals: bullfrogs and democracy dogs
Two BBC articles (US bullfrog invasion and Hong Kong dogs at democracy protests) and questions to go with them. Exercise 1: choose which animal is being referred to (read for gist). Exercise 2: word manipulation (grammar). Exercise 3: correct the errors (read for detail). Exercise 4: vocabulary building. Answers are provided on p4.
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 15
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Picture discussion prompts
A set of questions to use with any picture (from magazines or newspapers, or your own photos). Each question is open and designed to promote either detailed description or creative thinking.
Print the document out DOUBLE-SIDED - the second page gives useful vocab and structures to support pupils with each question.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: others
Downloads: 22
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Present perfect tenses - News article
News article containing examples of present perfect, past simple, present perfect progressive and present simple. A great way to consolidate these tenses after having taught them, and a good example of how they are used in real life.
Answers included.
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 64
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Saint Nicholas - comprehension and past simple
The legend of Saint Nicholas (Santa Claus) in a simplified version, plus exercises on question words, antonyms and creative writing. The grammar focus is on the past simple.
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 82
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Reading comprehension: park ranger in the Grand Canyon National Park
Article from the Washington Post kids� section about a park ranger in the Grand Canyon National Park.
Exercises include: pre-reading discussion, reading for gist, vocabulary match, reading for detail, inference questions, creative writing tasks (extension).
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 65
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Easily confused words: memory and remembering
A handout, discussion questions and gap-fill exercise on easily confused words in the lexical field of memory and remembering.
Words and grammatical constructions explained in the handout:
memory, souvenir, remember, remind, commemorate, memorise
Answers are provided on p3.
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
Type:
Downloads: 22
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Questions in songs
2 songs which include questions. Learners listen to the songs and in exercise 1, correct the errors; in exercise 2, write in the question forms.
You can find the songs on YouTube.
Answers included on p3.
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 51
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Sentence completion: if and when statements
A creative, open-ended activity to complete a unit on "when" and "if" statements. Pupils choose a card and must complete the sentence using the correct complementary tense.
Level: advanced
Age: 13-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 24
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