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Making suggestions and giving advice: structures
Writing frame modelling the structures used for making suggestions and giving advice.
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100
Type: grammar-guide
Downloads: 16
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Badgers: ACT or SAT reading comprehension
Reading passage in the style of the ACT and SAT reading tests. Used to help prepare a student for these tests.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 20
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Saint Nicholas - comprehension and past simple
The legend of Saint Nicholas (Santa Claus) in a simplified version, plus exercises on question words, antonyms and creative writing. The grammar focus is on the past simple.
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 82
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SAT-style critical reading / reading comprehension on Schiller
SAT-style critical reading test on Schiller. Covers reading comprehension and high-level vocabulary. Answers and text included.
Level: advanced
Age: 15-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 22
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Singapore: super trees - video and text comprehension
For the topic �space and exchange� - a video about green space in Singapore followed by two articles from which learners must extract key points. Final exercise offers some open-ended discussion questions. Would be well suited to small group work or homework. (Answers to the video comprehension are provided on the last page of the document.)
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 24
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"magic e" - a and a_e pronunciation - cards for games
Small cards to introduce the "magic e" rule (changing A to A_E sound). Ask pupils to pronounce each word, then try finding pairs of cards with the same sound, or building sentences using the words.
Level: elementary
Age: 3-12
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 10
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Reading comprehension: world�s largest drawing
A reading text from the Guinness World Records website about the world�s largest drawing - a drawing of a turtle created to raise awareness of marine pollution.
The 4 exercises are general comprehension questions, detailed comprehension questions, a vocabulary builder, and an open-ended writing task.
The answers are included on the last page.
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
Type:
Downloads: 37
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Pancakes video and exercises
Simple video about making pancakes for Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day).
Exercises cover listening for ingredients in the recipe and their amounts, vocabulary for cooking equipment, and putting the steps of the recipe in the right order.
Level: elementary
Age: 6-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 45
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Mixed grammar exercises: SAT preparation
An article from the LA times adapted into a training exercise for non-native pupils preparing for SATs or similar high-level exams. Exercises cover prepositions, tenses, adjectives/adverbs and identifying sentence errors. Answers can be found by comparing pupils� choices with the source text (also given in the document).
Level: advanced
Age: 15-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 36
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Heteronyms
9 common pairs of heteronyms and exercises to work with them.
Heteronyms are words which look the same but are pronounced differently and have different meanings. For example "lead" (a metal) and "lead" (a verb meaning "to guide").
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 22
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