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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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PAST SIMPLE REVISION
There are two identical worksheets on one A4 paper (saves paper and can be pasted in smaller notebooks). It provides simple practice for the Past Simple Tense in the 1st exercise, and a fun exercise about famous people and characters in the 2nd one.
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-12
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 3
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LIMERICKS - A WS COLLECTION
This is a collection of wss and lesson ideas using limericks (funny, rhythmic poems) to improve your sts� language in a fun way. It was inspired by Dusia�s post in the forum. It contains several pages with reading and writing activities and brief instructions. I hope you have fun with it. My teenagers love limericks!
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 541
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Batman Begins
This is a follow-up activity for the movie Batman Begins. The first part briefly checks their understanding of the story, but they very much enjoy the second part, and I got some great ideas and essays from my students on that topic.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 17
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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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all tenses, active.passive, conditionals
A brief 2-page review of all tenses, active, passive and conditionals. It can be used for revision, looking for similarities and differences between tenses, or for a class poster. My students call it �all in one�. I�ve been using it for years.
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: grammar-guide
Downloads: 193
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THE INKHEART PROJECT - the book - part 2, INKSPELL
If you�ve always loved fantasy stories like I have and were looking for one for your intermediate and advanced teenagers, Inkheart might be really interesting for you. I�ve used both the book and movie in class, and they�re really interesting - having the gift to read out things and characters from books into real life, who wouldn�t want that? This...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 74
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Pride and Prejudice - movie, series and book
This is a project full of activities based on watching the series Pride and Prejudice, or the movie, or reading the 1st book chapter. It can be used as part 2 of my project which connects Prejudice, Pride and Prejudice and Pride, or each project can be used individually. This lesson is a collection of speaking, reading, watching, listening and writ...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: Choose
Downloads: 126
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Aesop�s fable- spot the difference in the text
This is a spot-the-difference task, but with text instead of pictures. Page 2 contains some more lesson ideas and teacher�s key. A different approach to dictation and reading practice, and developing synonyms.
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 82
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EMINEM & RELATIONSHIP ABUSE
I know Eminem�s lyrics have certain elements that should be censored, but I just couldn�t resist using this song (Love the Way You Lie), the previous events with Rihanna, and the sad reality of increasing abuse in relationships not to use it all for wss. Naturally, it�s up to you to decide who you can use it with(perhaps older teenagers and adults)...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 89
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SILLY ENGLISH - how easy is it to translate things?
This is a ppt I prepared for my advanced teenagers who got just a little bit overly self-confident as far as their knowledge was concerned. It is based on an e-mail I got with ridiculously translated hotel and other signs around the world. It�s really funny, but the task for the sts is to say it in ...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 82
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AN IMAGINARY PLANET - reading, speaking and writing for intermediate students
I have created this ppt for my internediate kids (9-10 yrs old), as follow-up for space and astronauts (a text in Chatterbox 4). It�s a reading text about an imaginary planet, a speaking activity about Earth, and a writing task to create their own planet. (There�s also a matching worksheet available...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-12
Downloads: 49
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CHIT-CHAT-speaking revision
This is a ppt made up from prop slides. I prepared it for my adults who are not very eager to speak, who need props to help them speak and who want to cover as much as they can in as little time possible. Sounds familiar? Anyway, I hope you find it useful. I�m also uploading a ws with the same vocab...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 119
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ELEMENTARY REVISION GAMES - kids� level 1
This is a ppt I use at the end of school year with my level 1 school kids - we revise all material through this ppt and we play it as games in 2-3 teams. It covers many topics (alphabet, he/she, colours, numbers, city places...) and it�s really fun to do.
Level: elementary
Age: 7-11
Downloads: 58
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THE SNOW QUEEN (poem) - creative writing ppt
Adding this to my Snow Queen project, I�ve created this ppt for my advanced groups based on a poem by F. Letras (with his permission - thanks, Frank). It contains a poem inspired by the Snow Queen story, two vocabulary task slides and a creative writing task which can be done individually or in pair...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 49
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PEOPLE IN THE PRESENT - present tenses and describing people
This ppt is prepared for adults (but can be used with teenagers as well) who still have problems with describing people and deciding when to use the Present Simple or when to use the Present Continuous. It drills the difference with practical picture descriptions, also expanding their vocabulary ban...
Level: elementary
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 66
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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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THE JUNGLE BOOK - short role-play for elementary kids
This is a ppt of a short play for kids I wrote based on Kipling�s Jungle Book. You can use it for class role reading, or even for a play with kids to perform in front of parents or audience, as I did (btw, a ws version is also available on ESL if you need it, and it contains lyrics to the songs used...
Level: elementary
Age: 7-9
Downloads: 210
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GRAMMAR ASSOCIATION GAMES
This is a collection of 4 ppt association games (I used my own template - available in the free templates) for grammar revision. Each slide is one game and you can use all games at once to revise some grammar, or one by one as you introduce a certain topic. Hope you find it useful!
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 190
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THE SNOW QUEEN - intermediate project
This is a ppt based on the storynory.com text (link for text and audio provided). I made it for my intermediate students. It contains the part of the story till Kay is taken by the Snow Queen (with pics) and from then on there are tasks for sts to guess what happens next, etc. It can be used with ma...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Downloads: 57
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BORN FREE - OUR PLANET
I made this OE inspired by the video for Born Free, but the basis for the exercise is actually environmental care, enjoying the nature and preserving it, so it revolves around nature vocabulary. It contains two videos and several tasks - vocabulary, spelling, memory practice, fill-in... well, you�ll...
Level: advanced
Age: 11-100
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QUESTIONS AND TAGS - AGAIN
Here�s another OE with lots of question-making practise. It is based on interesting, little known facts of life from karmas.korner, which makes a rather dull grammar task more interesting and quite fun. Lots of wh-questions to make and even more question tags! Hope it�s of use!
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
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Comparison with Harry Potter
Another addition to moravc�s project Grammar with HP. This one is for comparison practice and uses Harry Potter characters to make it more fun. (Also available, a ppt game and ws about this). Hope it�s useful!
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100
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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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TEDDYBEARS - PRESENT CONTINUOUS AND A STORY
This is a simple OE for elementary students to practise some Present Continuous (two tasks, all with animated teddies, followed by a story in rhyme with a fill in task and a challenge. I hope you like the story.
Level: elementary
Age: 6-12
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CONDITIONALS WITH HARRY POTTER
This is an OE with four different types of conditionals (from zero to third) and a fun video/audio challenge at the end, based on Harry Potter stories. It�s another addition to moravc�s project on learning grammar with Harry Potter. I hope you find it useful!
Level: advanced
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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SHERLOCK HOLMES
My students love Sherlock Holmes, and this is part of our project - reading stories about him, watching videos and working with the language. This is hopefully only the first of my OEs on the topic - contains a word formation task and a synonyms task connected to a video. Hope you find it useful!
Level: advanced
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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I WON�T GIVE UP - JASON MRAZ
I just couldn�t resist this song, the video and the melody. The tasks are rather simple (spelling, opposites and ordering by numbers), but the song is lovely and the video has a nice message. I�m planning to do it on Valentine�s Day, although the message is universal. I hope you like it.
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-100
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