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In praise of the egg!
Contrary to negative reports about eggs over the past twenty years, they are now being seen in a different light thanks to the diet the hens are being fed. An authetic text to be used to inspire discussion. Question prompts have been given for a pre-reading exercise as well as for after reading and language exercises.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 98
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The knitwits!
An authentic text about the positive effects an old skill has had on school children. Grammar point revision:used to. Lots of conversation points to discuss too. Answer key.
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 86
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Tesco advertisement is banned for misleading its customers.
An authentic text from the Daily Mail newspaper about a recent advert for a large grocery chain in Britain. The three papagraphs have been treated differently with a different focus on each. The worksheet is rounded off with questions about advertising in general.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 102
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Questions and negations in the present tense
For adult beginners. An oral drill which then could be used as a writing exercise for homework. This always needs a lot of practice at the beginning.
Level: elementary
Age: 11-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 57
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Mr Busy went to Egypt. (PAST PERFECT)
Mr Busy has come back from Egypt and is reflecting on his holiday. He had taken the same cruise as the characters in Agatha Christie�s "Death on the Nile" and was happy that there had been no murders on his trip. Past perfect verbs (either simple or continuous) are to be written in the gaps. An answer key has been added.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 279
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An activity with prepositions which are followed by the -ing form.
An exercise to practise linking phrases which include prepositions followed by the -ing form. A variety of answers are possible. A list has been given on page two to show examples.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 60
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Giraffe Hotel
A newspaper text (Daily Mail) about the world�s first giraffe hotel and the dream of two young Kenyan children. It explains a little about the conservation work done with Rothschild giraffes. I�ve added converstion questions, discussion questions and some language exercises on the text. An answer key has been added
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 120
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Mr Busy is back, but not alone, at a late summer barbecue
Another episode in Mr Busy�s life which he now shares with Lizzy. The story picks up old threads from the other stories while concentrating on finding the correct verb forms from the context. A gap fill exercise, distinguishing between the the simple and continuous forms of the present perfect and the present tense, relying on signal words and cont...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 90
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Happy Birthday WWW
The internet has changed our lives has been around for the last twenty years. An easy authentic BBC text flashing back briefly to how it all began and asks the question whether we could imagine a life without it? Language exercises and discussion questions have been added with a key.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 102
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Hope is growing for the Chilean Miners: News clip 2
A way to use an authentic text: reading, discussing and creating headings for the individual paragraphs.
I hope they get them out of there!
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 22
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