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vocabulary_changes
Dear fellow teachers and their lovely students! Here is the vocabulary of changes you may find useful when revising for an international Cambridge-format exam (such as FCE of CAE, for instance). That would be nice if you could make use of it!
Level: advanced
Age: 15-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 71
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WRITING A LETTER OF APPLICATION FOR CAMBRIDGE B2 FIRST (FCE) [methodology]
Hello,
let me share a new writing piece from the series of similar exam-format handouts. Let us look at the principles of writing a letter of application for b2 first. Perhaps, a less pleasant task to do for students, but, nevertheless, it is sometimes offered among other writing assignments. I hope my bombarding you with all the recent writing st...
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
Type:
Downloads: 59
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FUTURE REFERENCE IN ENGLISH (GRAMMAR ANALYSIS)
Hi, everyone! Let me share one of my grammar analysis worksheets (there has been a full collection of them for a couple of years) with you! The approach which is applied here is similar to the well-known guided discovery method, i.e. ss analyze what they see, draw conclusions and come up with their examples based on what they�ve understood. Frankly...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: grammar-guide
Downloads: 25
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REVIVING PHOTO STUDIOS [a listening & speaking activity]
First, ss watch the video twice and then, they do a speaking activity. Hope you find this one interesting :)
Level: advanced
Age: 15-100
Type:
Downloads: 14
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Secondary School Subjects Activity
Hello! The .docx file you can see below is prepared to let students become familiar with English secondary school subjects and give them ideas how to describe them. The tasks are to be done in turn (first, describing pictures and matching them with some of the presented subjects and only after that collecting vocabulary units, referring to each of ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 49
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B2 FIRST / UPPER-INTERMEDIATE LISTENING ACTIVITY [for a CLIL class]
You can use the activity at a lesson devoted to travelling. Let your ss find out some information about the countries they SHOULDN�T visit. I personally treat the information from the youtube video with slight scepticism, but it is the language listening skill development that is in the centre of attention. The version is teacher-oriented, so don...
Level: advanced
Age: 15-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 35
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MEANS OF CONVEYING HABITS AT PRESENT AND IN THE PAST
Though the grammar points which this worksheet is based on are not quite common and are to be studied at higher levels, I�m hoping some of you on this website will find it useful :). The worksheet incorporates some peculiarites of the grammatical patterns used to express the meaning of repetead actions at present and in the past. In addition to qui...
Level: advanced
Age: 15-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 62
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PRACTISING THE LANGUAGE OF COMPARISON AND CONTRAST [on the basis of jobs] [2]
As promised, here is the 2nd part of the comparison & contrast job analysis set.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type:
Downloads: 34
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FUTURISM (TO PRESENT "HAVE SOMETHING DONE")
Good day!
Your students study the meaning / refresh their knowledge of the causative construction "have something done" through a listening activity. The subject is futurism. The link for the video is in the activity itself. Mind that for some of the statements more than one correct answer are possible depending on your ss� understanding of the v...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 54
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TALKING ABOUT ANIMALS [A CLIL CLASS]
Here is a printable with animals to describe. It may be used at a lesson on biology and, specifically, the animal world.
Level: advanced
Age: 15-100
Type:
Downloads: 21
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A JOURNEY THROUGH ART [a CLIL class]
Hi,
now that most art galleries and exhibitions seem to have closed down due to the pandemic, why not undertake a trip to a virtual picture gallery, get absorbed by the power or art and develop your language competence through grammar & vocabulary tasks? In this .ppt ss can work at their multiple s...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Downloads: 33
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HOW TO STAY ON TASK IN DIFFERENT JOBS [practising modal verbs]
Another presentation on practising the use of modal verbs in the context of job responsibilities. Mind that the slides here switch automatically, each showing its content within half a minute. It follows that students are allowed to suggest ideas for 30 minutes for each of the slide. Hence, the whol...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Downloads: 15
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WORD FORMATION COMPETITION (battle one)
This is a word formation activity which falls into two subtasks. First, students in teams try to derive new words from those presented on slide two, then they must make up words, using the affixes from subtask one. Mind that there is timing for students (it, of course, can be deactivated) who are gu...
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
Downloads: 29
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STORY-TELLING [to practise the past simple & continuous]
I used this presentation with my young learners some 5 years ago, which was a positive experience. Here kids create fairy tales or short stories by the introductions already written for them. Each story should last 3 minutes, which is indicated by the timing line. Get your pupils to display the powe...
Level: elementary
Age: 10-100
Downloads: 14
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DESCRIPTION OF DIFFERENT PLACES
Here is a simple presentation with places to describe by means of primitive A1+ level language. You launch the timer, and within 2 mins ss have to construct as many sentences as they can. Support on your part as a teacher would, I guess, be of help. I use this one when teaching my little A1 / A1+ / ...
Level: elementary
Age: 8-12
Downloads: 19
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PRESENT PASSIVE [guessing game]
Students have to open the gaps in the sentences and put the verbs in the present passive form, so they be given 1 point for the correct answer. In case they manage to correctly guess the one who does the action, they are awarded one more point. The activity can be done in the form of a competition.
Level: elementary
Age: 12-100
Downloads: 12
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SHOP TILL YOU DROP [a speaking presentation]
Get your students to compete! Who can make the biggest number of utterances within the given time-frames? The presented models will allow learners to generate full sentences. As a teacher, reject repeated ideas)
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Downloads: 17
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MY CLOUD GAME [2]
In this variation of the game ss are supposed to unscramble the presented words, each have an uppercase letter instead of the correct lowercase letter. Ss do a double task here: they not only unscramble words, but also put them in the right alphabetical order. On the the right side of the slide you�...
Level: elementary
Age: 7-14
Downloads: 12
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B1 / B1+ WORD PATTERNS PRACTICE [LETTERS "D", "E" & "F"]
A new bunch of patterns taught at the level of B1.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Downloads: 18
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SO & SUCH PATTERNS [a speaking presentation]
Ss invent their sentences based on the examples they can see on all the slides.
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
Downloads: 22
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