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movies-associations games
You�ve probably played associations before (maybe you call it differently), but if you haven�t, do try - it�s amazing how much fun it can be, how much language material you can cover with it, and kids soon start making them themselves, which is great. I made some about movies, but once you get the principle, you can use it for any level and it can ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-17
Type: others
Downloads: 72
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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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STARDUST - WORDSEARCH
This is just a simple wordsearch I created for my intermediate students who had to do quite a big comprehension follow-up worksheet for the movie Stardust, so this wordsearch came as just a bit of fun. If you like the movie and feel like using it in class, there are several more complicated worksheets about Stardust in my collection.
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 11
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children�s play - The Ugly Duckling
This is Ugly Duckling follow-up - it accompanies a ppt I�m sending (which is a children�s play). The ws is elementary, but it�s part of the whole project(children�s play, word games...), although you can do this separately, just as follow-up for the story you read in the ppt. Pages 2 & 3 contain the play in word. The story itself is about how we tr...
Level: elementary
Age: 7-10
Type: reading
Downloads: 76
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FRIENDSHIP - role-play, Past Simple and projects
This is a worksheet with Past Simple and reading comprehension, along with several ideas about projects on friendship you can do with your students. The worksheet is based on one of the dialogues between George and his best friend Andy, written by F. Letras and used for this purpose with his kind permission. I hope you find it useful and inspiring.
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 174
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SPRING NATURE - elementary crossword
This is a spring crossword about insects and flowers for elementary sts. The document contains a colour and a black-and-white version, plus a key in the end. One of the first crosswords I made as word.doc. (so go easy on the criticism...)!
Level: elementary
Age: 7-11
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 18
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SUMMER PIRATE BOARD GAME (my board game no.2)
This is a board game I made for my kids (various groups, aged 4-12)for our final �pirate� summer farewell party. It can be played as a simple board game, or a giant one across the classroom (see instructions on last page). I added some colour to make it more fun, but it�s mostly b&w, so it can easily be printed like that. It�s rather simple, but yo...
Level: elementary
Age: 4-17
Type: others
Downloads: 100
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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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project 1 - English around the world
This is part 1 of 3 projects I�m posting today. This one deals with countries and languages around the world, and where and for what purpose English is used. It�s a combination of language, geography and basic culture. It includes several pages of lesson ideas, with speaking, writing, listening, etc. You can do each project separately, or all toget...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 384
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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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HALLOWEEN ASSOCIATION GAMES - play and learn
Finally made it - with a little help from a friend, I managed to turn my association games into ppt games. Rules are included, so if you�ve never played - do try. You can do this with all ages and levels. If you like the game, and want to create your own, I�m also uploading a free template.
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-17
Downloads: 186
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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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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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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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CHRISTMAS SPIDER - ROLE PLAY
This is an old role-play of mine based on world legends, tales, songs and nursery rhymes about Christmas(I�ve just updated the word doc uploaded here before). I�ve used it as role play and a puppet show and am planning to use it again this year. It�s nice to do with children, because there are lots ...
Level: elementary
Age: 6-11
Downloads: 74
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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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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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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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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: 1050
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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LINGUISTIC DILEMMA - word formation
This is my second OE created to help my FCE students with their word formation skills. It is rather simple to use and offers two different tasks to practise word formation.
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
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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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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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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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