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MY HALLOWEEN COLLECTION - challenge for advanced students
Hi! I know it�s too early for Halloween now, but it will come soon enough. Anyway, this is a collection of speaking/writing activities for advanced teenagers or young adults, which includes five different linguistic tasks, one of them being a challenge to you and your sts from me and mine. Some good-hearted, Halloween creativity exchange, if you�re...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 475
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crime lesson
This is a 2-page worksheet for crime vocabulary - the pages can be used separately; the 1st page can be used as introductory worksheet or activity for a lesson about crime and detectives, and the 2nd page is actually a follow-up for watching an episode or reading a story about Sherlock Holmes. I was amazed to see how his old-fashioned methods and u...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 23
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comparison - food and movies
I made this worksheet for reinforcement for my intermediate students. They loved doing comparatives and superlatives with food and movies... It�s a lot of writing and thinking, but they did it with smiles on their faces...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-11
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 80
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HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON - follow-up activities
This is a collection of texts about How to Train Your Dragon with suggested activities (to avoid too much fotocopying and engage sts to listen, read, speak and write. There is also a worksheet included with flexible writing activities for elementary and intermediate students. (You can also check out my ppt on the same topic, with a follow-up quiz, ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-17
Type: Choose
Downloads: 100
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THE ARISTOCATS
This is a follow-up activity worksheet. Students like to paste it on the left-hand side of their notebooks and do the comprehension check questions and sentence making on the right-hand side. It encourages writing and is fun to do with a class partner.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-11
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 9
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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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MIND OVER MATTER -five open-ended stories in worksheets
This is a collection of five of my open-ended stories organised in worksheets and to be used with upper-intermediate and advanced students. Each story covers a different genre (crime, SF, fantasy, horror, comedy) and also has additional vocabulary at the bottom of each for students to use. I hope you find it useful.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 424
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travelling - DETAILED LESSON PLAN and activity sheet
This is a lesson-plan (page 2)and an activity card(page 3)for advanced levels (I used it with my FCE sts). It�s perfect for breaking the classical organisation in the classroom, because it lets you use the whole classroom (you can even do it outside), your sts walk around writing tasks on different papers, and what keeps things interesting is that ...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: Choose
Downloads: 63
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WORD GAMES - writer motivators
This is the third and last part of this word game collection. This one focuses on writing, and contains 14 writer-motivator games, explained on elementary, intermediate and advanced levels. Just like the other two projects, these games can be used with any vocabulary, at any point during the lesson, and they are compiled from various sources and my...
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-17
Type: others
Downloads: 412
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LITTLE TEDDY�S BEDTIME RHYME - story in rhyme
This is a story in rhyme I wrote for my preschool advanced group, inspired by my son who never wants to go to bed. The whole lesson plan is included - you can read it for kids, role play it with them, use it for a show, do it in steps, etc. My sts loved it, they learned to finish my lines and to tell the key rhyme by themselves and we had lots of l...
Level: elementary
Age: 7-10
Type: Choose
Downloads: 51
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THE RAINBOW IN THE STONE
This is a story I wrote for my younger students, based on leprechaun legends and the mention of the Blarney stone. (I�ve used Ph. Martin�s free cliparts images.)I hope you find it useful and fun. At the end of the story I�ve prepared an association game (using my own template, available in the free ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 5-100
Downloads: 36
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The 5th Element - characters fill-in quiz
This is a ppt about the main characters from the movie The 5th Element. It contains a pic and a fill-in text about all the main characters from this fun science-fiction film. I used info and texts from www.imdb.com. I�m working on it as an additional activity with my sts (levels elementary-intermedi...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-12
Downloads: 3
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GRAMMAR ASSOCIATION GAMES
This is a collection of 4 ppt association games (I used my own template - available in the free templates) for grammar revision. Each slide is one game and you can use all games at once to revise some grammar, or one by one as you introduce a certain topic. Hope you find it useful!
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 190
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PEOPLE IN THE PRESENT - present tenses and describing people
This ppt is prepared for adults (but can be used with teenagers as well) who still have problems with describing people and deciding when to use the Present Simple or when to use the Present Continuous. It drills the difference with practical picture descriptions, also expanding their vocabulary ban...
Level: elementary
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 66
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BE THE TEACHER - error correction
This is a collection of movie quotes. Each of them contains a slight mistake, and it�s your sts� job to find them. Key is provided in the end. It�s a fun way to make your sts aware of some mistakes, and afterwards you can ask them to list their typical mistakes and become aware of them. It�s a reall...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 55
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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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�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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THE ADVENTURES OF ISABEL - funny scary poem(for Halloween maybe?)
This is a ppt inspired and dedicated to our very own Franknbea and Anaisabel, and the ESL cafe. It�s based on the Ogden Nash poem The Adventures of Isabel and I�ve also added a Halloween activity for students. It can be used for intermediate sts as well, but it has a special sense of humour, so be c...
Level: advanced
Age: 11-17
Downloads: 34
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VALENTINE�S DAY - WORD GAMES
This is a ppt created to play team word games with sts in class. It�s fun, nothing difficult, playing with words (5 games with key), but can be used at the beginning or the end of the lesson. It can be done in writing or as speaking activities. The tasks are also available in printable form as a ws ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Downloads: 82
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PIRATE�S TREASURE - fun summer story with pre, during and post-reading fun
This ppt is based on the story Pirate�s Treasure(the link is included because the online version also contains audio files). It�s a fun short story for children, and the ppt has an activity to do before reading, lots of discussion stuff to do while reading and fun challenges for after reading. I hop...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-14
Downloads: 126
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QUESTIONS AND TAGS - AGAIN
Here�s another OE with lots of question-making practise. It is based on interesting, little known facts of life from karmas.korner, which makes a rather dull grammar task more interesting and quite fun. Lots of wh-questions to make and even more question tags! Hope it�s of use!
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
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WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
This is a revision exercise I created for elementary students about jobs. It has several tasks, including a limerick at the end (which you may have to help them read, but limericks are great for rhythm). I hope you and your students find it useful and fun.
Level: elementary
Age: 6-11
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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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LET�S PLAY PIRATES!
I made this OE for my students who just love pirate stories, treasure hunting and pirate songs. It has a listening task (a very catchy pirate song), a reading task and a treasure hunt with prepositions. I hope you like it! AAAAArrrrgh!
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-12
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PIRATE FUN
I made this OE for my students to do before or during their summer holidays. It�s a wordsearch, vocabulary task and riddles about pirates and their equipment. It�s also available as a printable, without the interactive options. I love pirate stories, so I have made several materials about this topic...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-100
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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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