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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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Reading skills: space tourism
Text about space tourism with exercises designed to improve reading skills: identifying what pronouns refer to, finding definitions in the text, considering the significance of tenses. Final exercise requires readers to answer classic comprehension questions having completed the warm-up exercises. 2 writing tasks are also suggested. Answers provide...
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 142
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All conditionals: overview exercises
A gap-fill exercise testing all four conditionals (0, 1st, 2nd, 3rd), followed by an extension exercise on logical connectors and sentence reformulation.
Answers provided on p3.
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 47
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Freerunning (parkour) - short video and questions
A short video about children learning freerunning in their school gym class.
Exercises are: pre-video discussion questions, watch and answer "w" questions, watch and answer detailed questions (e.g. gap fill).
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 15
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Staying with a host family (homestay) - interactions practice
Prompt questions for students to practise the kind of interactions they might have when staying with a host family in an English-speaking country. A great way to prepare your learners before an exchange or a summer course in an English-speaking country.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 51
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Easily confused words: use - used to do - be used to doing - usually
A clear explanation of the commonly confused phrases use, used to, be used to and usually.
Worksheet covers pronunciation, open-ended expression and sentence correction (choose the correct option).
Answers are on the final page.
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
Type:
Downloads: 28
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ACT or SAT practice: delete/add text elements (topic: traditional medicine)
An exercise about text comprehension at a deeper level. Readers must decide how deleting a portion of the text would affect the meaning. Other questions ask whether certain elements should be added to the text, and if so, where would be best.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 18
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Back to school discussion questions
21 "back to school" discussion questions and phrases to include in answers.
Would work as a 1-1, paired, group or whole class discussion activity.
Designed to stimulate discussion and reflection in the first weeks of term.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 65
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Relative pronouns overview
A worksheet with explanations, a written exercise and oral exercises.
The first part deals with the difference between who and which, and the different structures in which these pronouns can be used. There is then an oral exercise involving drawing a card from a hat and giving a definition of the word.
The second part deals with whose, where, why...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type:
Downloads: 20
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Reading comprehension - 2 stories about NZ animals
2 articles from the BBC. One is about people replacing sheep at rodeos; the other is about the kokako, a bird in New Zealand thought to possibly be extinct.
Exercises cover "wh" questions, vocabulary, gist reading, reformulation, and creative writing tasks.
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 46
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