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every- some- no- any- words overview and exercises
An overview of how the prefixes EVERY, SOME, NO and ANY combine with ONE/BODY, THING and WHERE.
Each prefix is discussed separately, with a guided gap-fill exercise each time.
The final exercise asks students to do a mixed gap-fill as a plenary/conclusion activity.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type:
Downloads: 41
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Time adverbs: since, for, still, already, yet - news article and questions, grammar exercises
A short news article from the BBC followed by vocabulary and simple comprehension questions, and a role play.
Grammar guide based on the news article - it deals with present perfect + since/for, preterite + in/on/at, and present or present perfect + already/still/yet.
Question stimuli to encourage pupils to use these time structures in their own ...
Level: advanced
Age: 13-100
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 113
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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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World records: superlatives
Pupils match the pictures to the world record and then deduce the rules for forming superlatives by analysing the sentences.
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 8
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4 short news stories from BBC Newsround + questions
4 short news stories.
Task 1: match the headlines and pictures to the stories - this requires pupils to read quickly for key words only.
Task 2: answer the "w" questions about each story (who/what/when etc.) - this requires pupils to summarise and to show they can read for gist.
Task 3: answer the mixed questions (answers provided in key) - this...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 68
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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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Reading comprehension: China bans celebrities� children from appearing on reality TV shows
Article from BBC News about a ban on Chinese celebrities� children appearing on TV.
Pre-reading discussion questions and vocabulary, post-reading true/false/not in text questions, vocabulary matching and gap-fill, role-plays based on the text.
Answers are provided.
This would fit into a unit on TV, media, press freedom, celebrities and fame, rig...
Level: advanced
Age: 11-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 67
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Discussion prompts: scenarios and objects
Various scenarios and a list of objects/conditions.
Pupils could simply use the scenario cards to discuss what they would do and why; how they got into the situation; what could go wrong; what advice they would give to someone in this situation.
Pupils could pick a scenario card and one �object� card and try to explain how they would cope in this...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 24
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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: 64
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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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Comparatives and superlatives in adverts
Examples of adjectives of differing lengths used in real advertisements. A good way to introduce or refresh the topic of comparatives and superlatives by asking pupils to deduce the rules from the examples given. (Can be used in conjunction with my �comparatives flowchart� worksheet.)
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100
Downloads: 21
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