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My personal holiday
Students are asked to describe church or national or regional holidays with their rituals and how their families celebrate them. They state their opinions on these special days. Then they are asked to invent a holiday which may be a crazy one like "national car washing day" or a serious one - and to explain and defend it in front of other students....
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 4
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Analyzing Metaphors in Poetry
When analyzing poetry students often have great difficulty understanding the meaning of metaphors and similes. I usually start off with pop songs because they are closer and less difficult for them, and then pass on to poetry. Here is a collection of metaphors and similes that have to be analyzed - either by choosing the correct interpretation or b...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 17
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"One of those moments" - collocations with the word "moment"
Collocations around the word "moment". Don�t forget to fold back or cut off solutions before you copy the sheet.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6
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Adjective Walkabout II
Students read sentences in which adjectives are missing and find out the missing adjectives from the context . They work their way from START to FINISH adding up the points given below the adjectives. The total sum helps them find out whether their answers were correct, but there is also a *KEY* with which the teacher can check quickly. I laminated...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 62
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Find the appropriate emotions II
Students match nouns expressing feelings with definitions or examples in order to memorize the vocabulary of emotions. On page 2 they are asked to find the corresponding adjectives.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 116
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Improve your style - Comment adverbs
Exercises on comment adverbs like "unfortunately, obviously, surprisingly...". Useful for advanced classes and Cambridge FCE and CAE preparation.
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 71
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**__EMOTIONS__ ** - Collocations
Four exercises that teach and practice collocations around the word "emotion(s): adjectives, nouns, verbs. Improves vocabulary a lot. There will be two more worksheets on emotions tomorrow (matching exercises emotions-situations)
Level: advanced
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 27
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A perfect nose
Would you have surgery just because you don�t like your nose or your breasts?? Some people think they would. One girl talks about her experiences. Lots of topics for discussion and roleplays and discussions.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 0
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How to write an interior monologue
In my country students are sometimes asked to write an interior monologue when studying literature. Here is a simple guide explaining what interior monologue is and helping them to write one.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 16
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CAE and FCE �SPEAKING� Preparation (songtext based) I (Prompts or �cheats� included)
Getting students to speak is often really hard. Getting them to speak to each other in an authentic, lively way is even harder. --
In my CAE and FCE preparation course, I use short extracts from pop songs for this purpose. --
This can be a warming-up exercise, a relaxing exercise in the middle of a long course or a filler at the end. --
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Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 69
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