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Pre fable reading activity
An aid to reading fables. An activity to use for descriptive writing and to allow students to understand the character traits represented by animals. This can change from culture to culture and could also be incorporated with a lesson on Chinese Astrology. This can then be transferred across th character profiles for people and expanded with diffe...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-15
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Downloads: 9
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WRITING A MOVIE REVIEW
For the upper intermediate student to give them the structure and content required for a movie review.
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
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Downloads: 23
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The Stranger Listening Assessment 1
This worksheet is to assist students with their listening comprehension, with a cloze and it has some short answer questions plus a longer writing task.
It is on the first two chapters of The Stranger and there will be more worksheets to follow on The Stranger which will become more challenging as the students move through the story. The text is o...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
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Downloads: 15
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Writing a Narrative with a picture prompt
This activity focuses on narrative structure and allowing students to explore inner dialogues, writing in first person or third person POV. Imaginative writing and having fun with words.
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-100
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Downloads: 21
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A simile game
A game for students to learn to use similes and expand their vocabulary and language usage.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
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Downloads: 11
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Growing up Asian in Australia
This group of activities includes an analysis text of the Short Story by Diana Nuygen 5 Ways to Disappoint Your Mother and allows ESL students who are studying at a higher level access to some important issues around family values and the culture clash of expectations inherent in a westernised civilisation.
I will be posting a comparative study w...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
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Downloads: 21
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Biography Versus Autobiography
Students broaden vocabulary, expand research skills, collect information on a subject and use the information to write a biographical text on him or her.
Work on an explicit language base to write an extended text using the scaffold.
They should be encouraged to use visuals to illustrate their story and to present it to the class as a PP presen...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
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Barak Obama Speech 2004 Dems convention Listening activity with MC questions
This is an activity based on the 2004 Barak Obama speech to the democrats convention. He speaks clearly and well. Plus there are two or three commentators on his speech. It is a good activity to spring board into persuasive language and easy listening with the use of repetition illustrated well in the text.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
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Downloads: 14
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The Breadwinner Part 1 Chapters 1 -5
A book that can be found in audio on ESL.bits under novellas. These activities cover the comprehension and language work of 15 chapters of the text. There are some extension activities in the third booklet.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
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Downloads: 12
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The Breadwinner Part 2 Chapters 6 -12
The work activities are based on The Breadwinner a novella of 15 chapters by author Deborah Ellis. You can find an audio version of the text with print text at ESL.bits under Novellas. It is a great text for those with intermediate reading skills.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
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