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Role plays / Situation cards: a holiday in an English-speaking country
A set of 12 situations which a visitor might encounter on a visit to an English-speaking country. To stimulate role-play and "survival English".
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 173
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Easter crafts: 3 sets of instructions to unjumble
Instructions for 3 Easter-based craft projects (a recipe, dying eggs and making an Easter bonnet). Learners must identify which instruction goes with which project and then order them correctly. Answers available by following the links on the worksheet.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 11
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Children read to dogs to improve literacy (article and questions)
Article from BBC news accompanied by vocabulary and comprehension exercises. The article is not too difficult, even for younger teenagers.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 63
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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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SAT-style critical reading / reading comprehension / identifying sentence errors on a text about an 1895 archaeological expedition
Text from Project Gutenberg. Exercises following SAT model: 1) identifying sentence errors and 2) critical reading. Answers also provided.
Level: advanced
Age: 15-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 31
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all but, anything but, everything but, nothing but
A guide for advanced learners explaining the often confusing structure "all but" as well as anything, everything and nothing but.
The sheet includes an explanation of each structure, then examples taken from real-life sources (newspapers and literature) for learners to analyse.
Level: advanced
Age: 13-100
Type:
Downloads: 9
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Commas to separate sentence elements
Guide dealing with how to use commas to separate sentence elements and to separate items in a list. Final exercise is a paragraph which the students need to add the commas into.
Answers are provided on page 3.
(Does not cover restrictive and non-restrictive clauses.)
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: grammar-guide
Downloads: 31
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Use of �s for possessive and for "is"
Very simple explanation of use of �s for possession (singular only) and for "is". (Does not cover �s for has.) A first introduction to this topic for young pupils. Exercise requires pupils to determine whether the sentence uses �s to mean "is" or as a possessive.
Level: elementary
Age: 7-12
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 22
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Using a question word to introduce a subordinate clause
Thorough explanation of, and exercises about, introducing subordinate clauses using question words or if/whether.
E.g. Where is the church? / I don�t know where the church is.
Worksheet takes a deductive approach. Pupils work out the rule from the examples given, fill in a flowchart to explain the rule, and then practise with closed and open-ende...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: grammar-guide
Downloads: 19
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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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