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Christmas conversation questions
These conversation questions come with and without blanks. If you use them with blanks, the conversation activity can also be used to review vocabulary and structure. I suggest you cut the strips and put them in a box. Then play a song while the students pass the box around. When the music stops, the student who has the box picks up a question, r...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 18
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Smartphone privacy
As smartphones become more and more indispensible in our lives, our privacy suffers, because the apps we download, many times for free, request access to information that is often not at all related to the task the app is supposed to perform. This reading activity starts with a warm up conversation about apps and smartphone privacy issues, and then...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 29
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Family Members + possessive �s
Most students know the basic vocabulary related to family members, so I wanted to make the task a little more challenging than the usual family tree. So I made this crossword puzzle and a true or false activity which is not so easy because, besides mastering the family member vocabulary, students also have to decipher the use of the genitive case t...
Level: elementary
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 18
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Mine, by Taylor Swift
Students are asked to complete the lyrics with the words they think might fit in the blanks. If they need hints, the words that were taken out are listed, but in alphabetical order, not in the order they come in the song. Last, they listen to the song to check if their guesses were right.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6
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Dominique Strauss-Kann: culprit or victim?
This is a different kind of reading comprehension activity. Its aim is to discuss current international news while teaching new vocabulary. The answers are on the second page.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 2
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A lesson on gratitude
Students often comment on the fact that the verb "take" has several different meanings. While brainstorming idioms, phrases and phrasal verbs with the verb "take", I suggested "take for granted", and my students didn�t know what it meant. I decided to prepare a whole lesson on taking things for granted, but focusing on the opposite option, which...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type:
Downloads: 19
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Numbers in the world cup
To raise students� curiosity to read the text, a fill-in-the-blanks exercised is suggested, in which they will test their general knowledge concerning the history of tournament, as well as this year�s championship in South Africa and the next edition of the World Cup, which will happen in Brazil in 2014. Only after doing that will they read the tex...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 10
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Rehab by Amy Winehouse
Students are supposed to pick out the "alien" word in each verse of the song and unscramble it so as to turn it into a "real word". To make it more challenging, the alien words are not marked in any way, but to make it less frustrating, the first letter of each alien word was kept in its right place.
There is no need for an answer sheet because y...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7
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Father and Son by Cat Stevens
This song is nice to use as a warm up for discussions about family relationships. The vocabulary is not hard, and its pace is slow enough for students to follow easily. I made the activity so as to also raise awareness about parts of speech.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 26
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Will Smith�s punishment by the Academy
This is the adaptation of an article about the punishment of Well Smith by the Academy following the incident with Chris Rock in the 2022 Academy Awards ceremony. The aim is vocabulary building and discussing the topic.
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type:
Downloads: 11
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