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ACTIVE READING - stories
This is a collection of 5 worksheets dealing with various motivational stories. The worksheets require reading and writing and are very useful for advanced teenage and adult levels, including FCE and CAE levels. The texts are rather interesting and highly motivational, full of positivity, and inspire further discussion. I hope it�s useful to you!
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 820
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St. Patrick�s Day
Here are only some of my St. Patrick�s Day�s favourite activities - a crossword, a song, a text about Ireland and a story about a leprechaun and a greedy lady. The story is really educational and I�ve used it with all my levels - with preschoolers I added mime and sounds and a song afterwards, with intermediates I had a jumbled text to sort out, an...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 104
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everybody�s free - to wear sunscreen
This is one of my favourite texts of all times and I�m happy to share it with you! It�s by Baz Luhrman and it�s a fantastic text/poem about life and advice for life - funny, wise, sad, cynical, kind-hearted... I�ve prepared a worksheet on page 1 and lesson ideas on page 2. You can also do the text as a slideshow. My advanced teenagers and adults al...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 69
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Valentine�s Day for kids
This is a choice of rhymes, ideas on how to play with vocabulary and stories, and a worksheet to use with preschool or elementary school kids. I hope you like it.
Level: elementary
Age: 4-9
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 263
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ADVANCED VOCABULARY TREASURY - word games
This is a collection of word cards with advanced nouns and adjectives, with detailed instructions for the games and work you can do with them to improve your sts� vocabulary, word formation, writing and speaking. I�ve been using these cards with my FCE and CAE groups for several years, and they are very effective. The good thing about them is that...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 332
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4-in-a-row WORD GAMES
This is a collection of 4-in-a-row games, with basic rules of use for those who have never played it before. It�s a great game for all ages and knowledge levels and you can even improvise it in a few minutes. It starts by listening and building vocabulary, but it ends with sts creating their own games by writing a lot and using the dictionary. My s...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 85
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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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ALPHABET RIDDLES
Here you can find a riddle in rhyme for each letter of the alphabet, and suggested activities about teaching alphabet along with numbers. The riddles I wrote can be used just for fun, or even be performed for the parents. I hope you like them.
Level: elementary
Age: 7-12
Type: others
Downloads: 92
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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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SPRING RIDDLES - elementary riddles and picture cards
This is a set of 8 spring vocabulary riddles and matching picture cards. You can also edit everything, print the pages twice and play as memory game, or use the idea for your older sts and higher levels and have them create their own riddles. Have fun!
Level: elementary
Age: 5-10
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 163
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THINGS FROM AROUND THE WORLD - intermediate reading and writing practice
This is a ppt I created for my intermediate sts (9-10 yrs old), as follow-up for Chatterbox 4 - the units with countries, adjectives and materials. The task is to write a sentence about each item in the slides turning the name of the country into an adjective and using the phrase �made of�. The fina...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-12
Downloads: 15
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PRESENT PERFECT WITH HARRY POTTER
Here�s a Present Perfect game based on the HP stories - another addition to moravc�s project. I hope you find it fun and useful. (When you get the answer right, a magical creature appears:)).
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 87
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Past Simple - practical revision
This is a very simple ppt to revise the past simple tense. I used it with my kids and adults, and it was fun because we played it as games(each slide was one game) in 2 teams, and only made notes afterwards. I even used some exercises in a test later on.
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Downloads: 17
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SPEAK UP -guided intermediate and advanced speaking practice
Here�s a ppt I made for my FCE students to practise describing pictures. It contains several slides with �props� to guide them, inspire them, make them use some vocabulary and be creative. I hope you find it useful.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 1049
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ALPHABET LESSON - SONG AND RHYME FOR KIDS
This is a rhyme I made up for my kids to add a word to each letter of the alphabet. They can perform it in front of the parents, adding signs for letters and movement for words, and you can add any alphabet song they like. My kids liked it a lot - I hope yours do, too.
Level: elementary
Age: 6-10
Downloads: 46
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LIMERICK RIDDLES
This is a ppt with some limerick riddles I made - to add to my limerick collection of worksheets as I find limericks so much fun and highly effective. This one contains 6 limerick riddles on no specific topic, and a dare in the end. I hope you and your students enjoy limericks!
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 98
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ASSOCIATION GAMES TEMPLATE - free and you can actually play it!
Dear colleagues, I�ve been trying to make a ppt in which you can actually play association games, but kept having problems. Then a friend gave me such a simple idea and, as all simple ideas - it worked superbly. So, as promised in the forum, here�s a free template with rules and an example game. I h...
Level: elementary
Age: 3-17
Downloads: 0
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�ALLO �ALLO - short play for intermediate teenagers
This is a ppt of a short play I wrote for my teenagers (there is a wss version for sts uploaded on ESL as well), based on the hillarious comedy �Allo �Allo. They loved imitating different funny characters and their accents, which actually helped them improve their own English. It�s not too complicat...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 34
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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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FCE VOCABULARY PRACTICE
This is a ppt prepared for the FCE level. It contains a vocabulary task with multiple choice (with key), and a paraphrasing task (with key). Both tasks also contain an extra slide which is bw and printable as a ws or test (with key). These activities are then followed by a brain teaser which you can...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 86
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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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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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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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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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JOKES AND PAST SIMPLE - practice
This is a simple OE to revise or practise the Past Simple. There is a task to practise regular and irregular past forms, a fill-in task with kids� jokes and a task with short past simple answers. I hope it�s of use to you.
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100
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NIGHT LIKE THIS - ROMANCE
This is a simple exercise based on the song �Night Like This� by C. Emerald, with a listening task, vocabulary and writing tasks with adjectives and a short rhyming task with a silly love song at the end. I hope you like it.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
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LET IT SNOW - WINTER CLOTHES
This is a very simple task for small children to revise colours and winter clothes. It contains a Peppa video about snow and a task with colours and winter clothes. I made it all in capital letters, because my 6-year-olds find them easier to follow. I hope you find it useful and fun.
Level: elementary
Age: 5-8
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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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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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DEMONS - IMAGINE DRAGONS
Trying to find a new song that has a message and no lyrics I would have to censor, I came across this one. I think it has something to teach my teenagers about not being superficial, about being self-critical, but also about relying on the good in each other. I prepared some tasks with synonyms, ant...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
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