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Connector Text
This is a description of a summer holiday written in the first person. It is to serve as an example of an essay with special emphasis on the use of conjunctions to make the writing more interesting. There are a great many conjunctions to be identified, explained and consequently used by the students. The second page is a question follow-up to be ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: Choose
Downloads: 21
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Present Perfect Practice--Dictation
This can be used to review several tenses, although the emphasis is on the present perfect, so students can get a feel for it before they have to use it. There are twelve sentences (some are pairs of sentences) to be dictated to students. One student goes to the blackboard while the rest copy the sentences into their notebooks. When each student�...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: Choose
Downloads: 8
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Reading Comprehension Riddles
These are twelve descriptions (six per page) to read and comprehend. The vocabulary is quite varied as are the solutions. If the students understand the riddles, they will be able to provide the answers. Answer Key provided on the third page. The fourth page has an assignment for written expression where students must make their own description...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 19
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Reading Comprehension Riddles
These are ten riddles to test students� reading comprehension. Vocabulary is varied. I made it for my group of 6th graders. Answer Key provided.
Note: I allow students to write the answers in their native language if they don�t know them in English--after all, I am grading reading comprehension, so if they understand the description, that�s g...
Level: elementary
Age: 11-14
Type: reading
Downloads: 25
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Making Comparisons
Students must draw their own comparative conclusions about the descriptions. Using the information given, an evaluating sentence has to be written that uses a comparative (including equality)or superlative form. The last sentence may be written in the past; otherwise, all tenses are in the present and most are with the verb TO BE.
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 4
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First-Time Traveller Text
This is a short text which emphasizes the Present Perfect. It is designed for students who have already started studying this tense. After the text (which may be used first as a listening exercise), there are thirteen comprehension questions.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 41
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Beginning Multiple Choice Test
This may be used as a placement exam, final exam or simply for practice to review basic question structures and answers before continuing with the present simple/continuous. Many common mistakes are taken into account so that it should be easy to "separate the men from the boys" when the test is corrected and to find out which areas need more prac...
Level: elementary
Age: 8-12
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 2
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Passive Structure with Have/Get
This is for older students to practice the special passive structure using Have/Get, used mostly to communicate when something is professionally done for a person. Ten sentences/situations are given and must be rephrased using the required structure. Answer Key included.
Level: advanced
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 15
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Fill in the Blank with the Future
I made this as an exam to test the students� use of some of the future tenses: shall, will, to be going to, present simple and present continuous. There are ten situations and ss must decide from the context which form of the future is best for each case. At the end, there is a small translation section for teachers of Spanish students which can ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 11
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Oral Questions to Practice Too & Enough, page 1
This consists of three sets of 12 oral questions in order for students to get used to hearing too and enough used correctly before they have to write their own translations or fill in the blanks.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: others
Downloads: 13
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