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Michael Hughes
Malaysia



Used to work as a lecturer in Linguistics in China, then opened my own language school. Got kicked out of China and came to Malaysia to work on Teacher Training Projects and finally as a lecturer in Sunway University. For the last two years I have been retired and mainly helping develop ideas to teach classes for refugees who cannot attend regular school and needed to learn online.

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heroic failures
A discussion worksheet for intermediate and above learners of English. All the examples are of people who have tried to do something and failed. All of the examples are completely true and taken from the book Heroic Failures.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 9


 
The Queue
This is a series of 36 cards which states the place where a person is standing in a queue (line up). This is ideal as a warmer, or ice breaker. Each student has to find their place in the line by finding what the person in front and behind is doing. Full instruction on how to stage manage this are given on the first page. (Not sure if this is o...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 45


 
Holidays - Past Tense
This is a worksheet using Marshmallow�s holiday illustrations but adding text in the present tense with two exercises to convert the text to simple past. The first exercise is simply change the verb form, the second is to write the entire script. (I notice that on the preview the format seems to have changed with a text box across the pictures, s...
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 145


 
signs
a worksheet with a selection of different signs and the situations in which they would be found. Also a matching exercise for road traffic signs.
Level: elementary
Age: 7-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 151


 
Tutorial -Triggers in PowerPoint
This is a short introduction to quite a complicated facility available in PowerPoint. If you can master the basics of using triggers, then you can make your presentations much more interactive and interesting. PowerPoint is a powerful tool at the disposal of a growng number of teachers. The sad fact is that many teachers don�t know - or don�t wa...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: Choose
Downloads: 181


 
Stupid People Awards
This is a record of the �Darwin� award for the most stupid person in 2007. Students have to match the three parts of each account to find the completed text. Not too difficult, but when put together, some of these are quite funny. It is amazing how dumb people can really be!!! I think these are all true, but if not they should be!!! Complete a...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 102


 
Animal Habitats 2
This shows a number of common animals with pictures of their natural habitat. The children should write the names of the habitats next to the picture and the name of the animal next to its picture, then draw lines to match which animal belongs to which habitat. This is worksheet 2 of 2.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-12
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 24


 
Sentence Maze
This exercise involves the pupils finding the first word of three different sentences and then following the words in the grid to complete the whole sentences. The sequence of each word is directly next to each other, either up, down, left right or diagonally. As you discover each word write it in the boxes until you have a complete sentence. It...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 13


 
Tutorial - How to reduce size of pictures using PAINT
This is uploaded in response to the numerous questions about How to reduce the size of illustrations. I show how to reduce a 9mb photograph to 16kb using Microsoft Paint. This method is not foollproof and there are other programs that can probably do it better, but everyone has Paint and so everyone can try it. Enjoy.
Level: elementary
Age: 3-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 559


 
Animal Matching
A simple matching game. Cut out the flash cards, divide the class into small groups and match the characteristics to the animal
Level: elementary
Age: 6-12
Type: flash-card
Downloads: 8

 


Language and the brain
This has been uploaded in response to a query in the forum about brain lateralisation. It is a simple presentation for a very complex subject but hopefully demonstrates the significance of the differences between language learning and language acquisition. This is not a presentation for classroom ...

Level: advanced
Age: 13-17
Downloads: 49


Word Substitution Exercise
This is a text where in each box a formal word has been substituted by an informal word. The list of words is in the bottom right box of the grid. This can be used online or in the classroom where the teacher asks the pupils to identify which words can be substituted. The questions can be done in ...

Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Downloads: 19


Asia - the countries of Asia
This is a PowerPoint used to play the game of pelmanism or matching words with pictures or meaning. It can be used online for teaching or in a classroom. I also have a PowerPoint tutorial that shows you how to use the game effectively. This can be downloaded for free as it is a tutorial. This matche...

Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Downloads: 12


pelmanism - clothes
This is a PowerPoint used to play the game of pelmanism or matching words with pictures or meaning. It can be used online for teaching or in a classroom. I also have a PowerPoint tutorial that shows you how to use the game effectively. This can be downloaded for free as it is a tutorial.

Level: elementary
Age: 8-15
Downloads: 20


Kitchen furniture - Kim�s Game - pictures
This is a kim�s game where the slide presents all the furniture as a seies of pictures (no words), the next slide shows the same items with three of them missing. The class should be challenged to work out which 3 are missing. Click on the numbers to show the missing items. The final slide is instru...

Level: intermediate
Age: 8-17
Downloads: 13


Occupations - Kim�s Game - Pictures
This is a Kim�s game where a number of occupations are presented in picture form only, making it a little more challenging. The class should be divided into small groups and told to remember as many as possible, then move on to the next slide where 3 are missing. Click on any of the numbers to revea...

Level: elementary
Age: 7-14
Downloads: 51


Fruit - introduction
This is the introductory slide to the Kim�s Game series and shows all the fruit as individual slides with the names of each fruit. Use this for beginners who know nothing about fruit to introduce the language and reinforce their understanding with the Kim�s Game powerpoints. Have fun!!!

Level: elementary
Age: 6-12
Downloads: 22


Kitchen furniture - Kim�s game
This is a kim�s game where the slide presents all the furniture, the next slide shows the same items with three of them missing. The class should be challenged to work out which 3 are missing. Click on the numbers to show the missing items. The final slide is instructions how to make more slides s...

Level: intermediate
Age: 8-17
Downloads: 9


Intelligence Test for students who think they are really clever!!!
Do not be deceived at the plain look of this presentation in the view window, you cannot see the content until you download it. This is a �light hearted� set of questions that will have your class saying "duh!!! I knew that!!!!) Try it yourself before trying it on the kids. This uses triggers, so...

Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 104


How to make flash cards in Word 2
This is the second in the series of how to make Flash Cards in Word. The first one shows how to make up the boxes, this one shows how to insert text and pictures. These flash cards are �hands on� size, so I make several sets for each class. I have used 10 sets of cards in one class of 50 kids and...

Level: intermediate
Age: 7-17
Downloads: 37

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