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Questions for a Champion: a quiz about Harry Potter
This activity is a simple way for your students to act out a quiz show (you might want to make a video of their performance). They should work in groups of four or five.
After an initial approach where one or two more outgoing pupils quiz thz whole class about Harry Potter (the answers are included). The pupils can make up a quiz show sketch using...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 21
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Warm up questions
A set of simple questions to use as a classroom warm up or filler.
As my pupils enter the class, I give each of them one of the cards. After we have settled in and said hello we start a question chain until each of the pupils has answered and asked a question.
There are WH-questions and YES/NO questions. Encourage your pupils to give full ans...
Level: elementary
Age: 11-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 175
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Grammar practise
Grammar practise for relative clauses. Examples and exercises.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 30
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Let�s make breakfast
A simple video exercise to help learn about making suggestions and having breakfast. The 5 minute video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjS0CuWN7Sk shows some youth leaders making pancakes and scrambled eggs for breakfast. Listening, speaking, reading and writing. Lower intermediate.
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 57
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Homophones
Homophones are difficult for some ESL learners. Some of my pupils found it funny to learn that MESSY had nothing to do with their football hero (Lionel Messi) so I decided to help them with this lesson. We made a poster about Mr Messy and Lionel Messi and the following lesson plan will help them to learn and remember some common homophones. We will...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 25
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Where were you?
Where were you (when I phoned)? A simple pair work dialogue that you can use with or without the power point of the same name. Ss play roles asking and answering "Where were you?" Includes different places and times to help your students imagine new situations and to work on their intonation.
Level: elementary
Age: 10-15
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 23
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
A reading text from the opening chapter of the novel Girl with a Pearl Earring (taken form Tracy Chevalier�s website). The students are invited to discuss what they know then do a series of exercises: vocabulary categories; phrasal verbs; questions and answers; comprehension; ordering pictures to make soup.
It is editable and has an answer key for...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 19
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Write the dates!
A simple WS to practise writing dates. Pupils can use their school diaries to find the days of the week.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 24
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An interview with J.K. Rowling
A set of activities based on Harry Potter and an interview with J.K. Rowling. Students have to invent questions and discuss what they know about the world�s most famous magician and his author. The reading text is a modified version of an interview published on the web. There are suggestions for further activities. My thanks to our own "Montypython...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 33
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Grammar exercises
Two exercises I made as part of a test on a cinema theme. Thie first is about Jean Dujardin this year�s French Oscar winner...the adjectives are given ss must supply superlative forms. The second is about the multitalented Steven Spielberg and is about chosing between the simple past and present perfect. The answer key is included.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 32
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