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Expanding headlines- Articles: a/an/the/zero article before nouns
Headlines taken from: New York Times (USA), Chicago Tribune (USA), BBC News (UK), The Guardian (UK) and The Sun (UK).
Procedure:
Write up one of the headlines on the board, and ask the students where they would insert a/an/the before noun or noun phrase and there they wouldn�t, if they were expanding the headline into a sentence.
e.g. "Volcano...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 7
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Phrasal verbs: Travel
A two worksheet activity to introduce or practice phrasal verbs related to travel. There are teacher�s notes with a key on page 3.
Elise
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 9
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Take Your Mama Out- Scissor Sisters
The pre-listening tasks are:
- completing a table with the infinitive/present/continuous/past simple/past participles
- countable and uncountable nouns- writing plural forms where relevant
- future- will and be going to- usage and contracted form
- linked forms in spoken English: going to/ought to/going to
- home/house and man/boy- difference ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 2
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Vocab: Crime vocabulary pairs crossword
A pairs crossword activity to revise crime vocabulary. There�s a key on page 2.
Thanks.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 1
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Reading: A Call for Beijing to Loosen Its Grip on the Economic Reins (New York Times)
A New York Times unabridged article about China�s economy. It includes before reading, while reading and after reading activities.
Thanks.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 3
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Listening: British Council podcast: "Charities"
Instructions:
Listen to the British Council magazine podcast �Charities� and answer the questions below about the charities mentioned.
The podcast is available online or for mp3 download from: http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/magazine/charities
There is a different task available online.
Thanks.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 21
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Paraphrasing: worksheet and game
Page 1 is a worksheet to introduce paraphrasing structures.
Page 2 has a dominoes game for students to practice the phrases.
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Elise
Level: elementary
Age: 7-10
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 16
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Suffixes activity
An activity to practice word building with the suffixes: ty, ity, ence, ance, ness, th, ion, ment, ism.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 27
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"Irreplaceable" Beyonce
A gap fill activity with definitions.
Thanks.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 47
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Book report- writing lesson plan
A lesson plan outline focussing on a book review. It starts by looking at the book "Three Cups of Tea" (details included on pages 3 and 4), moving on to writing a synopsis of the first page, then discussing book review content before crafting the book report.
This lesson format is taken from Tricia Hedge�s book "Writing"- I have chosen a differe...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 10
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Adverbs
An overview of adverbs including:
Adverbs modifying advectives, past participles etc.
Adverb formation
Spelling rules
Adverbs and adjectives with same form
Adjectives with an adverb form
Adverbs with two forms
Adverb form in informal English.
Goes well with this game: http://www.onestopeng...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 34
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Relative clauses
A power point presentation about relative clauses, using Vincent van Gogh as the concept. This was created for an upper intermediate class, so some of the language might need to be re-graded for lower levels.
The presentation includes defining and non-defining relative clauses.
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Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 28
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Pronunciation: word formation- suffixes
A powerpoint linked to this one: http://www.eslprintables.com/powerpoint.asp?id=47827#this
Powerpoint reviews syllables and stressed syllables before looking at the pronunciation changes made by certain suffixes (as in the powerpoint) above.
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Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 43
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Word formation 2
There is a general introduction followed by a specific focus on suffixes -ful, -less and -able/ible and the prefixes for the opposites of adjectives.
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Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 21
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So and Such for emphasis/extremes
A presentation with examples showing when we use so and such for emphasis and extremes.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 17
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Vocab: Famous crimes
A powerpoint to elicit the famous crimes. Each example gives the crime, verb and criminal.
I teach in Brazil so have given three local examples that would need to be substituted. Or, if anyone knows an international example for: drug trafficking, mugging and rape, let me know and I�ll edit it.
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Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 13
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Like and as for similarity
A presentation with examples to express similarity with like and as.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 25
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Reported speech
A presentation about reported speech including:
- introductory verbs
- tense changes and no tense changes
- pronoun changes
- changes to place and time
- modal verbs
- reported questions
- indirect commands & requests & suggestions
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Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 9
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Idioms with by
A powerpoint to practice the authentic use of idioms with by:
By choice, by heart, by mistake, by ear, by name, by far, by sight, by chance.
The contexts are newspaper and website headlines.
Key:
1. heart
2. name
3. mistake
4. sight
5. chance
6. ear
7. far
8. choice
Thanks.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 22
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Adjectives and adverbs: gradable & ungradable
A powerpoint showing gradabale and ungradable adjectives and the adverbs of degree and intensity that can be combined with them.
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Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 30
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