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How babies are born and other questions? - project
This lesson plan and project were inspired by a forum post by yetigumboots about �The Middle Wife�. It has inspired a whole series of projects (this being the 1st one) based on language misunderstandings and kids� special language use and understanding �grown-up� concepts. This project was created to sort of connect and intertwine several age group...
Level: intermediate
Age: 6-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 50
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crime lesson
This is a 2-page worksheet for crime vocabulary - the pages can be used separately; the 1st page can be used as introductory worksheet or activity for a lesson about crime and detectives, and the 2nd page is actually a follow-up for watching an episode or reading a story about Sherlock Holmes. I was amazed to see how his old-fashioned methods and u...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 23
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children�s play - THE TORTOISES� PICNIC
Here�s another play I have to share with you - based on another traditional English story. It�s a funny play about a family of tortoises who decide to go on a picnic. I tried it with preschoolers (6-7 yrs old, 2nd & 3rd year of learning), and with school kids (7-9 yrs old), and both times it turned out great. It combines topics like family, food, n...
Level: elementary
Age: 5-10
Type: reading
Downloads: 116
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SPRING GAMES - shape writing and associations
Here are some spring word games you can play with your students. The first ws deals with shape writing, and you don�t have to print it for the whole class - just use the idea or make a poster. The second page contains 4 spring vocabulary association games (with teacher�s instructions on how to play). It can be fun with small kids, but also teenager...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 163
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St. Patrick�s Day
Here are only some of my St. Patrick�s Day�s favourite activities - a crossword, a song, a text about Ireland and a story about a leprechaun and a greedy lady. The story is really educational and I�ve used it with all my levels - with preschoolers I added mime and sounds and a song afterwards, with intermediates I had a jumbled text to sort out, an...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 104
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SUMMER PIRATE BOARD GAME (my board game no.2)
This is a board game I made for my kids (various groups, aged 4-12)for our final �pirate� summer farewell party. It can be played as a simple board game, or a giant one across the classroom (see instructions on last page). I added some colour to make it more fun, but it�s mostly b&w, so it can easily be printed like that. It�s rather simple, but yo...
Level: elementary
Age: 4-17
Type: others
Downloads: 100
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TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE - active reading workshop based on Lamb�s stories
This is a workshop I tried with my advanced sts to get them to love Shakespeare. I began with Tales from Shakespeare by Chales and Mary Lamb to get them to love the stories, and worked from there on. All the details are included, and also the link, copies of the texts and additional activities. It motivates active reading and is very effective. I h...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 111
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INKHEART - behind the scenes
Another Inkheart ws - this one is about some trivia behind the scenes (interesting for teenagers). It requires reading and then vocabulary work on the text itself. Again, regardless of the ws, I do recommend the book(s) and the movie to all of you and your sts who love fantasy.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 23
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The Little Christmas Spider - children�s play
This is a play I wrote many years ago and we have been using it for Christmas shows as kids� play or puppet show ever since. It is full of characters (something for every kid) and it�s intertwined with kids� rhymes and songs. I like the story a lot, because it shows that every single creature in the world has a purpose, regardless of the way it loo...
Level: elementary
Age: 5-12
Type: reading
Downloads: 239
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Mary Poppins
Who would have guessed modern kids would love Mary Poppins?! Just goes to show you never can tell until you try. My elementary students loved the movie, the songs, the worksheet, the movie word games... They all tried to snap their fingers to tidy up their rooms, too (it didn�t work though)... If you try this, please, let me know how it went.
Level: elementary
Age: 6-9
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 54
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St. Patrick�s Day
This is a powerpoint about some basic symbols of St.Patrick�s Day, with several word-game slides at the end. You can read and play it with your elementary, but also intermediate students. It can be used for revision or as introduction to St.Patrick�s Day lessons. Have fun!
Level: elementary
Age: 9-14
Downloads: 33
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LIMERICK RIDDLES
This is a ppt with some limerick riddles I made - to add to my limerick collection of worksheets as I find limericks so much fun and highly effective. This one contains 6 limerick riddles on no specific topic, and a dare in the end. I hope you and your students enjoy limericks!
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 98
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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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PRESENT PERFECT WITH HARRY POTTER
Here�s a Present Perfect game based on the HP stories - another addition to moravc�s project. I hope you find it fun and useful. (When you get the answer right, a magical creature appears:)).
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 87
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CUTE ANIMALS - short stories about animals
This is a ppt linked with my ws also called Cute Animals. The ppt contains 3 of my new stories with a follow-up activity for each, plus three suggestions for the sts to invent their own stories (so you can also use it with intermediate sts). You can use the ppt alone, or accompanied with the ws wher...
Level: elementary
Age: 7-12
Downloads: 77
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GRAMMAR ASSOCIATION GAMES
This is a collection of 4 ppt association games (I used my own template - available in the free templates) for grammar revision. Each slide is one game and you can use all games at once to revise some grammar, or one by one as you introduce a certain topic. Hope you find it useful!
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 190
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JUDGING BY APPEARANCES - educational and motivational
This ppt (and a corresponding ws) were inspired by Lucia13 who posted this wonderful text in our ESL cafe not long ago. Since I�m covering describing people with my teenagers, this is just the perfect icing on the cake to teach them to see past the surface. It�s designed for speaking and reading. I ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 221
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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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SPEAK UP -guided intermediate and advanced speaking practice
Here�s a ppt I made for my FCE students to practise describing pictures. It contains several slides with �props� to guide them, inspire them, make them use some vocabulary and be creative. I hope you find it useful.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 1050
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THE RAINBOW IN THE STONE
This is a story I wrote for my younger students, based on leprechaun legends and the mention of the Blarney stone. (I�ve used Ph. Martin�s free cliparts images.)I hope you find it useful and fun. At the end of the story I�ve prepared an association game (using my own template, available in the free ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 5-100
Downloads: 36
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LET�S PLAY PIRATES!
I made this OE for my students who just love pirate stories, treasure hunting and pirate songs. It has a listening task (a very catchy pirate song), a reading task and a treasure hunt with prepositions. I hope you like it! AAAAArrrrgh!
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-12
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LIFE CHALLENGES
Our very own Victoria-ladybug posted this video in the cafe and I just wanted to make sth with it so it inspired me to make my first OE. It doesn�t focus on one particular grammar or vocabulary point, but it�s good for discussing problems, giving advice (should...) and motivating. The video is about...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
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CONDITIONALS WITH HARRY POTTER
This is an OE with four different types of conditionals (from zero to third) and a fun video/audio challenge at the end, based on Harry Potter stories. It�s another addition to moravc�s project on learning grammar with Harry Potter. I hope you find it useful!
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
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MEMORIES & RESPECT
This is a word formation task I prepared for my students, although it is the message I�m trying to get across to them, more than have them practise word formation. Inspired by a small, but significant act of teenage vandalism, I decided to prepare this text. I hope you find it useful, be it just for...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
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WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
This is a revision exercise I created for elementary students about jobs. It has several tasks, including a limerick at the end (which you may have to help them read, but limericks are great for rhythm). I hope you and your students find it useful and fun.
Level: elementary
Age: 6-11
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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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DRAGONS
I created this OE with my son in mind. (His English level is not yet there, but I�m hoping the topic will inspire him!) The exercise contains several tasks - a T/F one, two reading tasks with comprehension and fill-in and a listening task with the theme song of a dragon movie. There are pics and ani...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100
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FISHING FUN
This is an OE based on a fun/funny dialogue between two boys about fishing (thank you, Frank, for your kind permission to use your text). It contains a reading task, two fun fishing videos, a preposition and a vocabulary task. I hope you find it useful and enjoy the dialogue.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
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SUMMER - DON�T YOU JUST LOVE IT?
I made this OE for my last lesson with my students before the summer holidays. There is a bit about ocean animals, about diving and a funny cartoon taking place on the beach. I hope you have fun with it!
Level: elementary
Age: 7-100
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QUESTIONS AND TAGS - AGAIN
Here�s another OE with lots of question-making practise. It is based on interesting, little known facts of life from karmas.korner, which makes a rather dull grammar task more interesting and quite fun. Lots of wh-questions to make and even more question tags! Hope it�s of use!
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
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