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olgumco
Olga Uma�a
Colombia



I am an ESL/ESP professor and a professional translator interested in sharing instruction material. I enjoy my job a lot and I�m very happy to be a part of this great site! I hope my contributions are useful and meaningful. Thanks a lot!

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Video activity "How good chewing gum is made"
This is a video activity. Find the video at : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt03qI0fS_I It is good to practice listening and to raise coversation about healthy dental habits, advantages and disdvantages of chewing gum. Good also for dentistry ESP classes. Enjoy it!
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 24


 
Doublespeak Proverbs
In this matching ws students need to find the doublespeak version of the proverbs. it�s especially good to teach students how to use this linguistic phenomenon. It is recommendable to provide additional examples used by famous people or politicians. I hope you fin it profitable.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 9


 
PASSIVE VOICE IN CONTEXT -The History of Chewin gum
Contains a text with cloze exercises to practice the forms of passive voice in context. It has a variety of verbs for students to practice while learning some cultural aspects.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 97


 
Adjectives (Faces and emotions)
This worksheet was designed to activate students� critical and creative thinking skills. They have to choose, from a list that contains more words than the number of faces, the one they belief describes the best the emotion expressed by the face. There are no right or wrong answers since all their perceptions can be different. It is good also to st...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 68


 
Exam -Listening & Language Use-
An exam you can edit and take the items you want to use. If you want the audios for the listening exercises, you can download the exam and send me a message, I�ll send them to your mail.
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-17
Type: others
Downloads: 6


 
Song: Love Runs Out by OneRepublic
This worksheet was created to teach students different vocabulary and expressions. The song is very catchy and easy to understand. I hope you enjoy it!
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 14


 
Platypus -complete questions-
This worksheet contains a reading text about platypi and an exercise for students to complete the questions and practice syntax and question formation techniques. It is challenging but clarifies many doubts about how to correctly ask questions.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 10


 
No Rain -Blind Melon
This song worksheet based on the song No Rain is intended to practice some forms of Gerunds and Infinitives as well as pronunciation of commonly used words. It also contains some homophones and minimal pairs to work on listening skills. Besides, it is a very easy-to-sg-along song and you can rock your class with it. Enjoy!
Level: intermediate
Age: 4-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 19


 
Zero Conditional - Matching exercise
This is a matching exercise that is meant for practicing the real use of the 0 Conditional. The idea is to cut each sentence and hand the students all of them in disorder and propose a competition: the fastest mind can win any creative reward the teacher considers appropriate. I hope you can use it and enjoy it!
Level: intermediate
Age: 5-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 65


 
Hot n� Cold -opposites-
From the poo song "Hot and Cold" by Kathy Perry I have created an exercise to practice some opposites that can be expanded by adding another stanza using the adjectives the students choose! Fun song to start or finish your class.
Level: elementary
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 8

 


What is the EL/EFL Approach?
This presentation contains descriptions of the main English Teaching Approaches. The idea is to show each slide and have students guess and say why they believe it is the approach, then, the name appears and the teacher explains the rest. It is excellent especially for those interested in EFL/ESL te...

Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Downloads: 12