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COLDPLAY - VIVA LA VIDA
A great song which provides good background for grammar revision (tenses) and afterwards you can have a debate on how fame changes people... I found it very useful, and even added a writing activity later on about the fame topic. I was pleasantly surprised with the maturity of some essays.
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 20
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RAPUNZEL & fairytales - detailed reading project
This is a lesson plan(with Rapunzel text included) for detailed reading activities. There are no wss inside, because it�s aimed at motivating kids to do a lot with just one copy of the text per group. All the lesson ideas and suggestions are included and are supposed to encourage your students to scan-read, read in detail, play word detectives, use...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-14
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 149
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funny song - down by the bay
If you�re looking for a really funny song for your kids, I recommend this one. My kids loved it, a colleague of mine even played guitar for her kids, and they loved writing thier own versions of unusual lyrics for it. It�s really fun.
Level: elementary
Age: 7-10
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 22
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SIMON AND GARFUNKEL - poetry or songs???
I decided to look for songs that are borderline poetry and remembered Simon and Garfunkel. I wanted something recognizable but not sth my sts hear on the radio every day. I didn�t want many wss or a lot of work for the sts to do, I wanted to create short breaks from double-lessons, or as intro or end to lessons. This is urban poetry with music, and...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 137
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SUMMER DIARY - lots of fun stuff to do
I actually made this in my mother tongue for my son, and then I thought why not do it in English as well - it�s sort of a scrapbook/diary of experiences, books, events, fun.... everything a child goes through during the summer, along with some fun word-bank activities. It�s goal is to inspire imagination and creativity and give the child a sense of...
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-17
Type: Choose
Downloads: 100
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ACTIVE READING - stories
This is a collection of 5 worksheets dealing with various motivational stories. 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 highly motivational, full of positivity, and inspire further discussion. I hope it�s useful to you!
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 820
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A JAR OF PICKLES AND A CUP OF COFFEE - great reading
This is one of the best short motivational texts I was sent to by e-mail (http://gleez.com/articles/management/cup-of-coffee-with-friend--time-management). It�s about time managment, friendship, family, everything that matters in life. Page 2 is a detailed lesson-plan on how to introduce the ws through discussion, brainstorming, and a project after...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 156
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SANTA VS. GRINCH - fun grammar worksheet
I needed a worksheet to review some grammar material at this Christmassy time of the year, so I decided to make it using Santa and the Grinch. The ws contains 3 tasks - comparing Santa and Grinch, filling in (with Past S.) a story about Santa�s bad day and guessing jobs the Grinch tried when he decided to be honest. I hope you find it useful! Happy...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-12
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 193
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BEGINNERS� CHECK
This is a very simple ws you can use for beginner kids, as revisiom and consolidation. My kids like to paste these in their notebooks, because e. g. they use the stars exercise as picture dictionary. Sometimes I even use it with preschoolers who can read and write. I hope you find use for it.
Level: elementary
Age: 6-9
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 4
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MIND OVER MATTER -five open-ended stories in worksheets
This is a collection of five of my open-ended stories organised in worksheets and to be used with upper-intermediate and advanced students. Each story covers a different genre (crime, SF, fantasy, horror, comedy) and also has additional vocabulary at the bottom of each for students to use. I hope you find it useful.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 424
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Comparison with Harry Potter
This is a short ppt game to practise comparatives and superlatives to describe the characters from Harry Potter. (Another adition to moravc�s project) There�s also a ws and an OE available. I hope it�s useful!
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-17
Downloads: 76
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SPEAK UP -guided intermediate and advanced speaking practice
Here�s a ppt I made for my FCE students to practise describing pictures. It contains several slides with �props� to guide them, inspire them, make them use some vocabulary and be creative. I hope you find it useful.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 1050
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Ever seen this woman?
Not one of my most colourful activities, but the lesson I had using this ppt turned out to be one of the most powerful and memorable experiences with teenagers. I had been looking for an interesting, unlike-typical-school history text to do with kids, when this text came to me via e-mail and stunned...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 58
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The 5th Element - key vocabulary activities
This ppt is one of the ppts and wss I use while and after watching The 5th Element as an aditional activity in lessons. This one focuses on some key words from the movie, some science fiction basics. My teenagers (and younger sts) absolutely love the movie, so I have lots of useful while and after w...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-14
Downloads: 13
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JUDGING BY APPEARANCES - educational and motivational
This ppt (and a corresponding ws) were inspired by Lucia13 who posted this wonderful text in our ESL cafe not long ago. Since I�m covering describing people with my teenagers, this is just the perfect icing on the cake to teach them to see past the surface. It�s designed for speaking and reading. I ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 221
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wanted - enchanted or not...
This is a ppt with basic info on some magical creatures, like wanted posters without pics, for sts to guess the creature. It�s designed to start as simple reading in a game, which can then be turned into using the given info for writing short essays. Again, fairytales go well with Halloween, so it c...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-17
Downloads: 10
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jobs ppt - have fun!
This is a short ppt I did with my kids to revise jobs. There�s some multiple choice, some writing, fill-in, etc. You can expand it on the same principle (I had to delete some slides, as it was too large to send)... I hope you find it useful.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-12
Downloads: 30
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FCE VOCABULARY PRACTICE
This is a ppt prepared for the FCE level. It contains a vocabulary task with multiple choice (with key), and a paraphrasing task (with key). Both tasks also contain an extra slide which is bw and printable as a ws or test (with key). These activities are then followed by a brain teaser which you can...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 86
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advanced levels - practice (CAE)
This is a ppt I used for my CAE group. It is made up from various exercises from books, free website practice and experience. It requires writing, speaking and English in use, but every 2-3 slides, there�s a short pop-word game to break the drill routine and stimulate the brain. I hope you find use ...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 159
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THE CONDITIONALS GAME
This is a ppt I made for my intermediate and advanced students who are fed up with revising conditionals using worksheets, which we sometimes all are. It can be used directly in class, or simply as an idea for an activity with pictures and word cards. You can use it with any type of conditional, as ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 358
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QUESTIONS - yes-no, wh, tags and some fun
This is an OE designed to drill the students in making questions in various tenses - yes-no questions, wh-questions, question tags. There�s a fun teenage youtube video at the end with the �world record� in asking and answering questions. It�s there just for fun and an extra challenge for your studen...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
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PIRATE FUN
I made this OE for my students to do before or during their summer holidays. It�s a wordsearch, vocabulary task and riddles about pirates and their equipment. It�s also available as a printable, without the interactive options. I love pirate stories, so I have made several materials about this topic...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-100
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LET IT SNOW - RUDOLPH�S COLOURS
This is a fun song about Rudolph I used with a video (littlestorybug) to revise colours. It also has a fill-in task with the basic Rudolph story below. I hope you get as hooked on the song as I have - it�s really cute!
Level: elementary
Age: 7-11
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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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NIGHT LIKE THIS - ROMANCE
This is a simple exercise based on the song �Night Like This� by C. Emerald, with a listening task, vocabulary and writing tasks with adjectives and a short rhyming task with a silly love song at the end. I hope you like it.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
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EMELI SANDE -CLOWN
The song is just too beautiful to miss. There are some follow-up vocabulary and comprehension tasks with Sande�s biography and explanation for the song. I hope your students enjoy it.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
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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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PREPOSITIONS in idioms and phrases
This is my third OE. The graphics are simple, but it will be useful for my FCE students to revise some idioms and phrasal verbs. The tasks are fill-ins. I hope you find it helpful.
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
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FANTASY LAND -PART ONE
I made this OE to accompany my Fantasy Land project (5 wss available with posters, projects and games). I prepared this for my after-holiday workshop, to step back into English, but not immediately into our coursebooks. It�s more fun and basic culture than grammar, but I love sneaking vocabulary in ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-14
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THE KISS THAT MISSED
This is an OE I made based on my ws for the story The Kiss that Missed (by D. Melling). It�s a funny fairytale with a synonyms task before reading, and the story from a youtube video with follow-up questions (Present and Past Simple).
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-12
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