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Test on counting syllables and knowing which syllable to stress
This is an activity that can be used as a test or just for practicing counting the number of syllables in words and identifying where we place the stress. The passage is a short one page long biography. Students have to find all the words that have 2 or more syllables and underline the syllable that we stress.
Level: advanced
Age: 15-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 16
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Making sentences with was/were
Students make sentences with was/were using the prompts. This can be done as a speaking activity or as a written exercise.
Level: elementary
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 3
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Using shall to make suggestions (part 2)
This worksheet has different scenarios. Students work in pairs, one reads the scenario to the other one, then the listener has to make a suggestion or offer to help somehow using shall.
Level: inte
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 21
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Comparatives and Superlatives Pictionary/Charades
You can use this game to review comparatives and superlatives. Put students in teams, give them a time limit or a number of points to attain to win, then one person from each team takes a slip and draws/acts out the sentence, then when their team guesses, someone else has a go.
Level: elementary
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 21
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Past Perfect: what happened before (part 1)
This activity works on using past perfect to talk about 2 actions where one occurs prior to the other. Students work in pairs. On their sheet there is a list of events. Students have to speculate about what had happened to cause those events. (e.g. it says on the sheet �John arrived late to work�, they speculate and write �He had forgotten to set h...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 11
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Short and Long Vowels Rules
This is an introductory guide to knowing when the vowel sound in a word will be short and when it will be long. It explains the rules words normally follow. It also gives some pointers on how to pronounce words which have 2 vowels in succession (priest, eight, clean etc). There are word examples which you can drill or have students read aloud.
Level: elementary
Age: 12-100
Type: grammar-guide
Downloads: 29
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Short and Long vowels practice
This is an activity to follow the guide I uploaded on short and long vowels. It is a list of pairs of words which look similar but are pronounced differently. In every pair one of the words has a short vowel sound and the other has a long vowel sound. I normally have students work in pairs, one says the first word, then the other one says the secon...
Level: elementary
Age: 12-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 6
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Silent Letters Reading Passage
Students find and cross out all the silent letters in the reading passage. Answer key included.
Level: elementary
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 41
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Pronouns and Possessive adjectives
A penpal letter, students have to choose an object pronoun, subject pronoun or possessive adjective to go in the gaps.
Level: elementary
Age: 10-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 18
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Modal Verbs: Asking for permission Speaking Activity
Students work in pairs. Each student has a slip of paper with permission topics, they take it in turns to mime the actions they need to get permission to do, and their partner guesses and asks for permission to do them (e.g. person A mimes smoking, person B says �Would you mind if I smoke?)
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 25
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Silent Letters
Powerpoint explaining some rules about letters that are not pronounced in certain English words.
Level: elementary
Age: 12-100
Downloads: 22
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Connectors of purpose: to; for; in order to; so that; so as to
For learners whose first language is Spanish. Looks at the following connectors: to; for; in order to; so that; so as to. Explains how to use connectors of purpose with verbs in negative. Includes translating practice activities
Level: advanced
Age: 15-100
Downloads: 40
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Active and passive form: how to change active sentences into passive form
There is an explanation of how to change active sentences into passive form for different verb tenses including present simple, present continuous, past simple, present perfect, and sentences with modal verbs. There are also some other common passive structures and sentences which students have to c...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Downloads: 24
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Connectors of opposition
Explains/introduces the following connectors: but; although; however; nevertheless; and despite. Includes practice activities/exercises to do at the end.
Level: advanced
Age: 15-100
Downloads: 26
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Connectors for explaining why
Introduces/explains the following connectors: because; as; since; and so. Also explains other uses of these words (e.g. �as� for �while� or with an adjective; and �so� for descriptions and conversation questions). There are practice activities to do for all the connectors.
Level: advanced
Age: 15-100
Downloads: 28
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Diphthongs / double vowels - vowel + w
PowerPoint explaining how to pronounce words that end in a vowel plus the letter �w�. �ow� in �slow� is like �o� in �go� or �ow� in �now� is like �ou� in house. �aw� like �ore� in �more�, �ew� like �u� in �blue�
Level: elementary
Age: 10-100
Downloads: 30
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syllable stress rules and practice
This is a powerpoint that explains some of the rules of stress, i.e. which syllable we need to stress when we say a word. It also has the following practice activities: words to drill or have students read aloud; word banks which students need to sort according to how many syllables in each word and...
Level: advanced
Age: 15-100
Downloads: 55
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Jack and the Beanstalk: Possessive and Pronouns
Correct the mistakes in the use of possessives and pronouns in the story.
Level: elementary
Age: 6-100
Downloads: 16
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Connectors of Addition Powerpoint and Practice Exercises
Powerpoint explaining formal (in addition, furthermore, moreover) and informal (also, too, as well, plus) connectors of addition. It also has practice exercises for both types of connector.
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
Downloads: 38
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ough words listening practice
This is an activity to help students improve their listening skills. The powerpoint has a word bank with 15 ough words and a table with the 5 different pronunciations these words have. You can project the page or print it out. Then you read out the words in random order, repeating each word once, an...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Downloads: 19
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