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Prepositions: ADVANCED - literature gap-fill
An extract from a story by H.G. Wells with different preposition exercises. Used to help advanced students prepare for English language exams.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 35
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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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Christmas cracker jokes
A list of groan-worthy jokes such as the ones found in Christmas crackers in the UK. Page 1 just has the jokes in a list; page 2 is in a table so you can cut up the jokes and ask learners to match up the jokes and their punchlines.
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 44
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Questions in songs
2 songs which include questions. Learners listen to the songs and in exercise 1, correct the errors; in exercise 2, write in the question forms.
You can find the songs on YouTube.
Answers included on p3.
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 51
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Present perfect tenses - News article
News article containing examples of present perfect, past simple, present perfect progressive and present simple. A great way to consolidate these tenses after having taught them, and a good example of how they are used in real life.
Answers included.
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 64
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Tourists in Antarctica: article and vocabulary/grammar questions focusing on reading skills
Questions focus on using the context to elicit the meaning of unknown vocabulary, and using grammatical knowledge to reformulate sentences from the text.
The article discusses the benefits and risks of Antarctic tourism.
Level: advanced
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 38
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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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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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Writing a postcard - BEGINNERS
A simple postcard and comprehension questions, followed by a list of useful postcard phrases. Pupils can then use the original text as a model to write their own simple postcard (by changing the underlined phrases). Designed for beginners aged 9. No formal explanation of the grammar is required as the verb structures are to be copied from the sourc...
Level: elementary
Age: 7-12
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 244
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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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