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student bloopers & history- FUNNY!!!
When you find a funny text, you just have to turn it into a great lesson. This is a lesson plan I developed to take a funny twist to a unit about human history, and it�s based on student bloopers. The lesson plan contains introductory activities, word games, the copy of the text and a follow-up project(5 activities, over 10 pages). The topic is mul...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 91
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�ALLO�ALLO - short play for teenagers
This is a short play for intermediate teenagers. It is in printable b&w form on 2 pages to save space, so you can hand it out to your sts. I have also made a ppt which can be used for rehearsals or simply role-reading. It�s lots of fun and can be used along using an episode in a lesson, and teenagers love imitating different accents and the funny c...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: Choose
Downloads: 157
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STARDUST - INTERMEDIATE COMPREHENSION WORKSHEET
This is an intermediate follow-up worksheet for the movie Stardust. It contains tasks with synonyms, translation, grammar (Present tenses), answering questions, making questions, and a writing task. Its first page is for lower-intermediate, whereas both pages are for intermediate students, but the ws is editable. Since the movie was so much fun for...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-12
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 58
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seasons - sort out the vocabulary
This is a sorting out ws, which is fairly simple and can be used for elementary sts of all ages. The great thing about this activity is that you can apply the idea to any knowledge level, any vocabulary and all ages, and you can do it as a game anywhere, with very little time to prepare and practically no extra materials, because it can even be don...
Level: elementary
Age: 7-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 58
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STARDUST - wordsearchES
And another Stardust ws - this one different again. In this one sts have 2 different wordsearching tasks - one typical (to look for movie words and names in a grid) and one which makes them match beginnings and the ending of the sentences. My sts found that one especially interesting, because it seemed, but only seemed, very easy. Have fun watching...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 23
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THE KISS THAT MISSED - story time
This is a worksheet I made for my students while working on D. Melling�s story The Kiss that Missed. I used it to expand their vocabulary and revise the Present Simple and Past Simple Tense. The story is really cute, there are plenty of useful links online for it (link available in the doc). The worksheet is not �heavy� in colour and contains the k...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-12
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 33
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PIRATE FUN
This is a worksheet I made for my students to do before or during their summer holidays. It�s just for fun and contains two vocabulary tasks and riddles about pirates and their equipment. (There�s also a matching OE with an additional wordseach.) I just love pirate stories, so this is only part of my material about the topic. I hope you have fun wi...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 54
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lucky lyrics
My students and I just loved this summer song, and they enjoyed doing the worksheet - it seems simple at first - you just have to listen to the song and fix certain words, but they found it challenging in some places and all missed the first �hear�... Try it (teacher�s copy is the right column)...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 3
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ADAM LAMBERT, THE X-FACTOR AND 15MINS OF FAME - ws with lyrics and additional reading
This is part 6 of my collection of song lyrics and related texts on various social topics. The ws contains sts� wss, links and teacher�s key. Since the song is by Adam Lambert,the X Factor winner, I chose some additional texts about that topic, and fame. There are listening, reading, writing and speaking tasks. I hope you find it useful.
Level: advanced
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 54
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GEORGE MICHAEL - LYRICS WSS
This is an updated collection of wss based on George Michael�s lyrics to I Can�t Make You Love Me, Faith and Freedom(and Freedom 90), with tasks for the lyrics and brief tasks for after listening. His songs are great for teenagers and adults, and you can show them the videos if you can. There�s even a task to compare his Freedom 90 lyrics and Lady ...
Level: elementary
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 28
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advanced Halloween workshop
This is a ppt I prepared for my intermediate and advanced teenage students. They love writing Halloween stories, but we usually do some brainstorming before the actual writing, so this ppt also has some vocab-expansion activities in the beginning. I had problems adding sounds, so feel free to add yo...
Level: advanced
Age: 11-17
Downloads: 45
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CHANGING OUR WORLD - children�s motivational story
Here�s my contribution to Frank�s project for the children. It�s a story inspired by his poem Global Warming, and it�s meant to motivate children to change things. It�s simple reading with three motivational tasks as follow-up. The ppt includes the story and Frank�s poem. Thanks, Frank, for the moti...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Downloads: 38
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Goblins and Firefairies - HALLOWEEN poem and ppt quiz
With kind permission from the author himself, our very own poet Francisco Letras (franknbea), I have used his Halloween poem to make a reading ppt with tasks of guessing hidden words and a short quiz and writing task as follow-up. I hope you enjoy the poetry and find the ppt useful for intermediate ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 29
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jobs ppt - have fun!
This is a short ppt I did with my kids to revise jobs. There�s some multiple choice, some writing, fill-in, etc. You can expand it on the same principle (I had to delete some slides, as it was too large to send)... I hope you find it useful.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-12
Downloads: 30
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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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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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tenses - when does it happen?
You know when your teenage or adult sts have covered most tenses in English, and there are always those who try to memorize the rules of usage instead of simply listening to the sentences to decide what happens when? So I made this ppt for my sts, to rely on their feelings about time, and only then ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Downloads: 69
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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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advanced levels - practice (CAE)
This is a ppt I used for my CAE group. It is made up from various exercises from books, free website practice and experience. It requires writing, speaking and English in use, but every 2-3 slides, there�s a short pop-word game to break the drill routine and stimulate the brain. I hope you find use ...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 159
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St. Patrick�s Day
This is a powerpoint about some basic symbols of St.Patrick�s Day, with several word-game slides at the end. You can read and play it with your elementary, but also intermediate students. It can be used for revision or as introduction to St.Patrick�s Day lessons. Have fun!
Level: elementary
Age: 9-14
Downloads: 33
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PREPOSITIONS - with rooms and furniture
This is an OE to practise prepositions. It contains several tasks with multiple choice and fill-in, accompanied with simple pictures to help the students. I hope it�s of use to you!
Level: elementary
Age: 4-100
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SHERLOCK HOLMES 3
This is the third OE I�ve made about Sherlock HOlmes. It contains two reading tasks - a multiple choice(based on a tex from Wikipedia about Holmes�s habits) and a true/false(based on a ppt video about Conan Doyle.). Hope you can use it.
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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SHERLOCK HOLMES 2
This is the second part of my Holmes OE series. This one contains two tasks - the first one is a multiple choice task with info on Holmes from Wikipedia, and the second one is an open cloze based on listening to the words from the given TV-series trailer. I hope it�s useful to you.
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
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FANTASY LAND -PART ONE
I made this OE to accompany my Fantasy Land project (5 wss available with posters, projects and games). I prepared this for my after-holiday workshop, to step back into English, but not immediately into our coursebooks. It�s more fun and basic culture than grammar, but I love sneaking vocabulary in ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-14
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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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REPORTED SPEECH WITH HARRY POTTER
Another addition to our Grammar with HP project - started by moravc. This one, in addition to the ws, deals with direct and indirect speech. I hope you find it useful.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
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Present Perfect with Harry Potter
This exercise is part of moravc�s project on learning grammar with Harry Potter. It is designed to practise the Present Perfect. It has three different tasks. Thanks, dear moravc, for letting me join the project!
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
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LET IT SNOW - RUDOLPH�S COLOURS
This is a fun song about Rudolph I used with a video (littlestorybug) to revise colours. It also has a fill-in task with the basic Rudolph story below. I hope you get as hooked on the song as I have - it�s really cute!
Level: elementary
Age: 7-11
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SUMMER - DON�T YOU JUST LOVE IT?
I made this OE for my last lesson with my students before the summer holidays. There is a bit about ocean animals, about diving and a funny cartoon taking place on the beach. I hope you have fun with it!
Level: elementary
Age: 7-100
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