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ADAM LAMBERT, THE X-FACTOR AND 15MINS OF FAME - ws with lyrics and additional reading
This is part 6 of my collection of song lyrics and related texts on various social topics. The ws contains sts� wss, links and teacher�s key. Since the song is by Adam Lambert,the X Factor winner, I chose some additional texts about that topic, and fame. There are listening, reading, writing and speaking tasks. I hope you find it useful.
Level: advanced
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 54
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MAGIC WORDS - of politeness - classroom poster, stickers, ideas
This is a classroom poster inspired by stexstme�s comments on the growing lack of basic culture (bravo, Sylvie, dear, never give up!). It�s a classroom poster to help teach your sts to be polite, with additional activities and reward stickers. People, let�s create a generation of polite kids, shall we? We might learn a lot in the process!
Level: elementary
Age: 3-17
Type: others
Downloads: 144
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Pride - who can humanity be proud of?
This project is part 3 of today�s series, but can be used completely separately from the other 2. If you decide to use all 3, I do suggest to do this one last - to end on a positive note (Prejudice, Pride & Prejudice, Pride). This lesson plan contains a detailed, several-page set of instructions and various texts about famous people from human hist...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 79
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Kids on everyday life - how kids interprete everyday situations
This is part 2 inspired by yetigumboots� post about the Middle Wife - I�ve found some anecdotes on how kids interprete everyday life situations based on lack of linguistic or cultural knowledge. It�s funny, and I�ve truned it into speaking and writing activities for my English lessons with kids. I hope you enjoy them.
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 49
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CARTOONS AND FRIENDS - kids� rhymes for a show
I couldn�t resist sharing this with you - it�s something I worked out for my level 1 sts to perform at the end of the school year in front of the parents. It consists of several rhymes about their favourite cartoon characters (I had 2-3 of them speak out each rhyme and added movements and costumes), and they end it with a rhyme about friendship (wh...
Level: elementary
Age: 7-9
Type: reading
Downloads: 43
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seasons - sort out the vocabulary
This is a sorting out ws, which is fairly simple and can be used for elementary sts of all ages. The great thing about this activity is that you can apply the idea to any knowledge level, any vocabulary and all ages, and you can do it as a game anywhere, with very little time to prepare and practically no extra materials, because it can even be don...
Level: elementary
Age: 7-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 58
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THE SPIRIT LAKE SEA MONSTER - reading project
This is a reading project based on a legend about a monster I found on the internet. I linked it to the topic of myths and legends, so apart from the text, there are notes for teachers with tasks for sts and a follow-up project. I used it as follow-up for the movie The Water Horse (I strongly recommend the movie - a wonderful family story, fairly n...
Level: advanced
Age: 10-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 50
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ACTIVE READING - ambiguities
This is a collection of 5 worksheets dealing with ambiguities and inconsistencies in the English language. The worksheets require reading and writing and are very useful for advanced teenage and adult levels, including FCE and CAE levels. The texts are rather interesting and fun. I hope it�s useful to you!
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 400
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the Mom song
I loved doing this with my students. It can be used with the video on You Tube with a woman singing this in an opera fashion to William Tell Ouverture. It concerns family, it is perfect for teenagers, pure grammar in disguise...It is pure joy to listen to her and teenagers really get a kick out of it...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 27
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travelling - DETAILED LESSON PLAN and activity sheet
This is a lesson-plan (page 2)and an activity card(page 3)for advanced levels (I used it with my FCE sts). It�s perfect for breaking the classical organisation in the classroom, because it lets you use the whole classroom (you can even do it outside), your sts walk around writing tasks on different papers, and what keeps things interesting is that ...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: Choose
Downloads: 63
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FANTASY - CARTOONS AND MOVIES MIX-UP
This is a ppt with two tasks - to find mistakes in stories (Shrek 2, Robin Hood, Wizard of Oz, Minimoys, Stardust, Inkheart, Harry Potter, Little Mermaid, Lord of the Rings)and then to find mistakes in the spelling of fairytale words. I used it for a group game in summer camp, but since fairytales g...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-17
Downloads: 35
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THE SNOW QUEEN - advanced project
This is a ppt I prepared for my advanced groups based on 7 parts of a long version of the story. The ppt contains some pre, while and post reading tasks for all the chapters, but is basically meant to be used with the worksheet available here http://www.eslprintables.com/printable.asp?id=477995#thet...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 53
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THE SNOW QUEEN - intermediate project
This is a ppt based on the storynory.com text (link for text and audio provided). I made it for my intermediate students. It contains the part of the story till Kay is taken by the Snow Queen (with pics) and from then on there are tasks for sts to guess what happens next, etc. It can be used with ma...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Downloads: 57
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advanced Halloween workshop
This is a ppt I prepared for my intermediate and advanced teenage students. They love writing Halloween stories, but we usually do some brainstorming before the actual writing, so this ppt also has some vocab-expansion activities in the beginning. I had problems adding sounds, so feel free to add yo...
Level: advanced
Age: 11-17
Downloads: 45
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upper-intermediate revision games
This can be used for revision with upper intermediate students, and, as always, you can turn revision into team games, and later use the same or similar exercises to prepare an actual test for them. It covers conditionals, gerund vs. infinitive, modals,past tenses, word formation. I�ve even used it ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 32
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children�s play - THE UGLY DUCKLING
This is the children�s play I wrote on the basis of the original story. It�s made to suit the needs of my groups(we did a play and a puppet show with it), so I added a few characters (couldn�t load their pics, sorry, too large a format. They absolutely loved it, and so did the parents, especially be...
Level: elementary
Age: 7-10
Downloads: 157
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AN IMAGINARY PLANET - reading, speaking and writing for intermediate students
I have created this ppt for my internediate kids (9-10 yrs old), as follow-up for space and astronauts (a text in Chatterbox 4). It�s a reading text about an imaginary planet, a speaking activity about Earth, and a writing task to create their own planet. (There�s also a matching worksheet available...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-12
Downloads: 49
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VALENTINE�S DAY - WORD GAMES
This is a ppt created to play team word games with sts in class. It�s fun, nothing difficult, playing with words (5 games with key), but can be used at the beginning or the end of the lesson. It can be done in writing or as speaking activities. The tasks are also available in printable form as a ws ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Downloads: 82
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FCE PRACTICE - use of English, speaking, writing
I prepared this FCE practice for my groups (highschoolers), using exercises from free web-sites, course books and experience. It concentrates on word formation (use of English), speaking and writing practice, and I use it with my advanced groups as practice, and then give them similar exercises as t...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 135
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Goblins and Firefairies - HALLOWEEN poem and ppt quiz
With kind permission from the author himself, our very own poet Francisco Letras (franknbea), I have used his Halloween poem to make a reading ppt with tasks of guessing hidden words and a short quiz and writing task as follow-up. I hope you enjoy the poetry and find the ppt useful for intermediate ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 29
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REPORTED SPEECH WITH HARRY POTTER
Another addition to our Grammar with HP project - started by moravc. This one, in addition to the ws, deals with direct and indirect speech. I hope you find it useful.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
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Present Perfect with Harry Potter
This exercise is part of moravc�s project on learning grammar with Harry Potter. It is designed to practise the Present Perfect. It has three different tasks. Thanks, dear moravc, for letting me join the project!
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
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TEDDYBEARS - PRESENT CONTINUOUS AND A STORY
This is a simple OE for elementary students to practise some Present Continuous (two tasks, all with animated teddies, followed by a story in rhyme with a fill in task and a challenge. I hope you like the story.
Level: elementary
Age: 6-12
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LIFE CHALLENGES
Our very own Victoria-ladybug posted this video in the cafe and I just wanted to make sth with it so it inspired me to make my first OE. It doesn�t focus on one particular grammar or vocabulary point, but it�s good for discussing problems, giving advice (should...) and motivating. The video is about...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
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ON THE BEACH - beach, ocean, summer, and grammar!
This is a revision OE with tasks to practise have got, prepositions, ocean vocabulary, prepositions and there is/are. It�s filled with beach and ocean pics and vocabulary, so it can be done for fun even during the summer break.
Level: elementary
Age: 7-100
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JOKES AND PAST SIMPLE - practice
This is a simple OE to revise or practise the Past Simple. There is a task to practise regular and irregular past forms, a fill-in task with kids� jokes and a task with short past simple answers. I hope it�s of use to you.
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100
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ANIMAL TALES
This is my fourth OE - but my first one for younger kids. It�s for kids who like animals - it contains some short reading fill-in tasks, find the mistake tasks, questions with can and a video with a follow-up wordsearch. I hope you find it useful.
Level: elementary
Age: 7-11
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DRAGONS
I created this OE with my son in mind. (His English level is not yet there, but I�m hoping the topic will inspire him!) The exercise contains several tasks - a T/F one, two reading tasks with comprehension and fill-in and a listening task with the theme song of a dragon movie. There are pics and ani...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100
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SHERLOCK HOLMES
My students love Sherlock Holmes, and this is part of our project - reading stories about him, watching videos and working with the language. This is hopefully only the first of my OEs on the topic - contains a word formation task and a synonyms task connected to a video. Hope you find it useful!
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
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LINGUISTIC DILEMMA - word formation
This is my second OE created to help my FCE students with their word formation skills. It is rather simple to use and offers two different tasks to practise word formation.
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
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