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Storm Text
This is an original text I wrote to practice the past simple and past continuous with vocabulary related to the weather. Students can read out loud to practice pronunciation before answering the 14 comprehension questions.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 57
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Used to, be used to, get used to
This is a guide to the 3 uses of "USED TO": used to, be used to and get used to.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: grammar-guide
Downloads: 17
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Terms Frequently Used with the Present Perfect
Here there are twenty sentences (sometimes pairs of sentences) to be completed with the terms: Already - Still - Yet - Just - Ever - So far - Lately - For - Since. The sentence structures are quite varied, but the present perfect is used throughout. Answer Key provided.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 51
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Professions/Jobs -- Riddles
These are lengthy descriptions of four professions to be read aloud in class for pronunciation practice and for comprehension. Students must discover which occupation each riddle describes. As a follow-up, I have students write their own description of different professions.
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 26
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Too & Enough, Oral Questions2
More oral questions to practice too and enough: 37 here, with some elaboration. Extra questions can be improvised along the way to enhance classroom conversation.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: others
Downloads: 7
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Used to, be used to, get used to
These are 7 situations which must be completed with a form of �used to�. The exercise is short and there are two on the page. Answer key provided.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 35
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Washington, D.C.
This is an original text with information about the capital of the United States. It can be used to generate conversation about Washington, D.C., or travelling in general. The teacher might make some follow-up questions or ask the students to write their own questions about it, as if they were the teachers. There could be some explanation about ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 17
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Connector Text
This is a description of a summer holiday written in the first person. It is to serve as an example of an essay with special emphasis on the use of conjunctions to make the writing more interesting. There are a great many conjunctions to be identified, explained and consequently used by the students. The second page is a question follow-up to be ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: Choose
Downloads: 21
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Dialogue: Going Out to Eat
A dialogue which can be used to practice normal English conversation. Students may be asked to give a summary (oral or written) after practicing it, or they might write their own dialogue using some of the vocabulary. I would follow up with a dictation and/or translation using expressions from the conversation in the next class.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 19
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Fill in the Blank with the Future
I made this as an exam to test the students� use of some of the future tenses: shall, will, to be going to, present simple and present continuous. There are ten situations and ss must decide from the context which form of the future is best for each case. At the end, there is a small translation section for teachers of Spanish students which can ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 11
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