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The Crocodile - Roald Dahl (reading writing activity)
This is a great activity for students to use prediction to piece together a famous poem. First work with the verses and then with the lines in each verse. If you have access, students can check their answers using the youtube link. After, students are to write two verses in the same structure.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 28
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Sell My Sports Drink - marketing task
My students loved this activity. They created magic sports drinks (we discussed this using Willy Wonka and Harry Potter as examples) and really enjoyed creating an advertising campaign for their products (some filmed TV ads, others taped themselves for radio ads, some created dialogues for talk-back shows). It is a great writing and speaking skill ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 18
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Listening - Hannah Montana - Life�s What You Make It
My students loved this task. After working on the listening task (more than a cloze passage) they had to analyse the lyrics. Hope you enjoy this as much as my students did.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 10
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Natales Song - Sia
This is great for inferring tone and mood. The main themes are friendship, support and sadness and this generates discussion amongst students. The tasks themselves are great practice and are a little more tricky than a cloze passage. I used this with pre-intermediate teens and they enjoyed it. From here we used the themes for anecdotal speaking tas...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 4
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Listening - Here if You Want, The Waifs
Not just a cloze passage, activities encourage active listening. This also includes a reading task - a recent festival poster featuring the Waifs and other bands; lyric comprehension and incident understanding - i used the live version featured on their Brief History album which has an audience and a mobile phone. Its great for accents - my student...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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Fractured Ghost Story
This is a creative writing task. It can be extended into a speaking task as well if students are asked to retell thier ghost stories (this can be a lot of fun if the atmosphere is good ie, sitting in a circle, lights dimmed etc.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 12
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past tense irregular verbs domino
to photocopy, cut and make your primary students play as they review basic past tense of irregular verbs.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-11
Type: others
Downloads: 0
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London Still - Listening Task
I used this song for pre-intermediate students. We had to discuss some expressions before the listening. It is great to infer mood and tone.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 15
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future
read and practice the future
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 9
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Paranoid - Jonas Brothers Listening
A fun skills building listening activity. This focusses upon listening to follow instructions and for finer detail. There is a link to the official clip on youtube. My students loved this, I hope yours do too.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 12
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