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Great love songs - collection 1
I�ve been sorting out my old love songs wss to see which I could use on Valentine�s Day 2010, so I started making collections. Here are: P. Gabriel�s Don�t Give Up, Anastacia�s Left Outside Alone, Limp Bizkit�s Behind Blue Eyes, Eric Clapton�s Wonderful Tonight and A Groovy Kind of Love by Phil Collins. More to come in a day or two. The difficulty ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 245
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FAMOUS CHARACTERS- conditionals & phrasal verbs
This is a grammar ws for advanced students. They need to work on some phrasal verbs and then use them to complete sentences in all types of conditionals. The fun catch is that the sentences are about some famous book, TV and cartoon characters.
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 112
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word games
This is a very practical type of word game you can use with students of all ages. I did it with intermediate and advanced students (kids and adults) and it turned out to be more challenging than they had expected. I always do it in teams or pairs. It�s really useful, because it doesn�t require a lot of time to prepare, you don�t need all kinds of t...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 13
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CUTE ANIMALS - stories and worksheet
This is a collection of my 6 new, educational short stories about cute animals. Each story is on a separate card and has its own educational moral, so you can use it for a class discussion as well. The stories are about lying, being new, being different, being envious, etc. There is also a ws included, both in colour and b&w. You can use just this ...
Level: elementary
Age: 7-12
Type: Choose
Downloads: 159
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Kids and exam answers - student bloopers used to learn
This project is also inspired by a post in the forum about students� science exam answers/bloopers and expanded using some �false� definitions many of you wrote (I hope nobody minds my using it as inspiration and linguistic material). I decided again to use laughing at mistakes as prevention for making one. Using funny texts with advanced levels (a...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 53
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tongue twisters and rhyme - WHY LEARN ENGLISH
I�ve used this for a performance with my level 3 group who wanted to perform, but hated siging - it�s a cool rhythmic rhyme about why learn English and duelling with tongue twisters. We finished off by duelling with the audience, because they didn�t want to sing (cool boys, you know), but the response was wonderful. It might come in handy, and it�s...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-11
Type: others
Downloads: 50
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HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON - follow-up activities
This is a collection of texts about How to Train Your Dragon with suggested activities (to avoid too much fotocopying and engage sts to listen, read, speak and write. There is also a worksheet included with flexible writing activities for elementary and intermediate students. (You can also check out my ppt on the same topic, with a follow-up quiz, ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-17
Type: Choose
Downloads: 100
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WHY BULLY?
This is a worksheet for more than one lesson based on the article about an 8-year-old boy who asked Santa to stop the kids from bullying his sister. I added intro questions, vocabulary tasks (synonyms, finishing sentences, etc.) a writing task, a reading of Maya Angelou�s Still I Rise, and a task about her biography. I hope you find it useful. (I c...
Level: advanced
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 110
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THE INKHEART PROJECT - the book - part 3 INKDEATH
If you�ve always loved fantasy stories like I have and were looking for one for your intermediate and advanced teenagers, Inkheart might be really interesting for you - having the gift to read out things and characters from books into real life, who wouldn�t want that? This part of the project is based on part 3 of the book, called Inkdeath, and yo...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 70
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USE OF ENGLISH - 6 texts & tasks for FCE levels
This is a collection of 6 texts and tasks (multiple choice and open cloze), but I�ve also added speaking and writing tasks related to each subject and text. I chose various texts from the internet and e-mails, to use sth different from the usual test texts. It is prepared for FCE groups, but can also be used with any advanced group. There is also a...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 758
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Comparison with Harry Potter
This is a short ppt game to practise comparatives and superlatives to describe the characters from Harry Potter. (Another adition to moravc�s project) There�s also a ws and an OE available. I hope it�s useful!
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-17
Downloads: 76
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CHRISTMAS SPIDER - ROLE PLAY
This is an old role-play of mine based on world legends, tales, songs and nursery rhymes about Christmas(I�ve just updated the word doc uploaded here before). I�ve used it as role play and a puppet show and am planning to use it again this year. It�s nice to do with children, because there are lots ...
Level: elementary
Age: 6-11
Downloads: 74
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word games!!!!
It�s time for word games - brain teasers! You can use them to finish your school or start the next one! You can use them all at once, or each slide for a new lesson! You probably know some of them, but they may give you ideas on how to play games with all knowledge levels and ages, and it�s all LANG...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 345
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Ever seen this woman?
Not one of my most colourful activities, but the lesson I had using this ppt turned out to be one of the most powerful and memorable experiences with teenagers. I had been looking for an interesting, unlike-typical-school history text to do with kids, when this text came to me via e-mail and stunned...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 58
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advanced Halloween workshop
This is a ppt I prepared for my intermediate and advanced teenage students. They love writing Halloween stories, but we usually do some brainstorming before the actual writing, so this ppt also has some vocab-expansion activities in the beginning. I had problems adding sounds, so feel free to add yo...
Level: advanced
Age: 11-17
Downloads: 45
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ELEMENTARY REVISION GAMES - kids� level 2
This is a ppt I use to revise at the end of the year with my level 2 kids. It covers numbers (ordinal and cardinal), months, days of the week, school subjects, to be and prepositions, and we usually do it as a competition between two teams. Hope you find it useful.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-11
Downloads: 122
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CHANGING OUR WORLD - children�s motivational story
Here�s my contribution to Frank�s project for the children. It�s a story inspired by his poem Global Warming, and it�s meant to motivate children to change things. It�s simple reading with three motivational tasks as follow-up. The ppt includes the story and Frank�s poem. Thanks, Frank, for the moti...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Downloads: 38
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ASSOCIATION GAMES TEMPLATE - free and you can actually play it!
Dear colleagues, I�ve been trying to make a ppt in which you can actually play association games, but kept having problems. Then a friend gave me such a simple idea and, as all simple ideas - it worked superbly. So, as promised in the forum, here�s a free template with rules and an example game. I h...
Level: elementary
Age: 3-17
Downloads: 0
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Goblins and Firefairies - HALLOWEEN poem and ppt quiz
With kind permission from the author himself, our very own poet Francisco Letras (franknbea), I have used his Halloween poem to make a reading ppt with tasks of guessing hidden words and a short quiz and writing task as follow-up. I hope you enjoy the poetry and find the ppt useful for intermediate ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 29
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upper-intermediate revision games
This can be used for revision with upper intermediate students, and, as always, you can turn revision into team games, and later use the same or similar exercises to prepare an actual test for them. It covers conditionals, gerund vs. infinitive, modals,past tenses, word formation. I�ve even used it ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 32
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FANTASY LAND 2
This is another part of my Fantasy Land collection (5 wss and another OE). This one is a bit more difficult - it requires reading and filling in the blanks from given options. Hope it�s of use!
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-14
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READ & LEARN - SYNONYMS & WORD FORMATION
This is a vocabulary task based on a poem by F. Letras (with his kind permission) and it contains synonyms, word formation and reading comprehension. I hope you find it useful. The poem has an interesting ending, so you might even use it (for Halloween maybe?) as an open-ended poem with your stodent...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
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QUESTIONS - yes-no, wh, tags and some fun
This is an OE designed to drill the students in making questions in various tenses - yes-no questions, wh-questions, question tags. There�s a fun teenage youtube video at the end with the �world record� in asking and answering questions. It�s there just for fun and an extra challenge for your studen...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
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NIGHT LIKE THIS - ROMANCE
This is a simple exercise based on the song �Night Like This� by C. Emerald, with a listening task, vocabulary and writing tasks with adjectives and a short rhyming task with a silly love song at the end. I hope you like it.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
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SHERLOCK HOLMES 2
This is the second part of my Holmes OE series. This one contains two tasks - the first one is a multiple choice task with info on Holmes from Wikipedia, and the second one is an open cloze based on listening to the words from the given TV-series trailer. I hope it�s useful to you.
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
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JOKES AND PAST SIMPLE - practice
This is a simple OE to revise or practise the Past Simple. There is a task to practise regular and irregular past forms, a fill-in task with kids� jokes and a task with short past simple answers. I hope it�s of use to you.
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100
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SHERLOCK HOLMES
My students love Sherlock Holmes, and this is part of our project - reading stories about him, watching videos and working with the language. This is hopefully only the first of my OEs on the topic - contains a word formation task and a synonyms task connected to a video. Hope you find it useful!
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
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BORN FREE - OUR PLANET
I made this OE inspired by the video for Born Free, but the basis for the exercise is actually environmental care, enjoying the nature and preserving it, so it revolves around nature vocabulary. It contains two videos and several tasks - vocabulary, spelling, memory practice, fill-in... well, you�ll...
Level: advanced
Age: 11-100
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LINGUISTIC DILEMMA - word formation
This is my second OE created to help my FCE students with their word formation skills. It is rather simple to use and offers two different tasks to practise word formation.
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
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FANTASY LAND -PART ONE
I made this OE to accompany my Fantasy Land project (5 wss available with posters, projects and games). I prepared this for my after-holiday workshop, to step back into English, but not immediately into our coursebooks. It�s more fun and basic culture than grammar, but I love sneaking vocabulary in ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-14
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