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olgumco
Olga Uma�a
Colombia



I am an ESL/ESP professor and a professional translator interested in sharing instruction material. I enjoy my job a lot and I�m very happy to be a part of this great site! I hope my contributions are useful and meaningful. Thanks a lot!

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Useful sentences for the classroom
This is a print you can make and ask students to stick them in their notebooks so they use English everytime they need to communicate with you. It has very simple expressions that helps them start interacting in English. There is also a short biography that serves as an example for sts to write their own. An additional advantage is that there are s...
Level: elementary
Age: 5-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 17


 
Coke commercial 2011
This is a very complete activity worksheet. You can use the 2011 Coke commercial from youtube and accompany it with the first page to have students listen and complete the sentences. Especially designed to practice passive voice, but you can also have fun by discussing the issues presented along the images of the commercial. In the second page you...
Level: intermediate
Age: 6-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 39


 
Edentulism -write the correct question-
This worksheet contains a reading text about edentulism and an exercise for students to write the question for the underlined part of the text. It gives them further practice about the correct syntax to ask questions. It is challenging but clarifies many doubts about how to correctly ask questions.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 3


 
The Score - Movie Worksheet
This movie worksheet is based on the movie "The Score". Is was intended to rehearse the combination simple past/past continuous. It also contains a section for students to work on synonyms. I do believe that complete movies can be used in class as long as they are accompanied by material that helps students improve their language. Enjoy!
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 16


 
Zero Conditional - Matching exercise
This is a matching exercise that is meant for practicing the real use of the 0 Conditional. The idea is to cut each sentence and hand the students all of them in disorder and propose a competition: the fastest mind can win any creative reward the teacher considers appropriate. I hope you can use it and enjoy it!
Level: intermediate
Age: 5-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 65


 
Guess who!
This worksheet challenges students� linguistic and logical skills. They need to discover who is who according to the indirect clues.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6


 
First Conditional - Matching Exercise
This worksheet is a practical way to have students practice the First conditional structure. Cut each clause and give the students all of them, they have to find the logical conexions. It worrked for me. Hope you can use it too.
Level: intermediate
Age: 5-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 64


 
The Big Bang Theory - Sheldon is sick- 2nd part
This is the second part of The Big Bang Theory - Sheldon is sick. This funny episode brings laugher to your classroom while practicing the language in a meaningful context... soon the third part!
Level: intermediate
Age: 4-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 33


 
Song: Love Runs Out by OneRepublic
This worksheet was created to teach students different vocabulary and expressions. The song is very catchy and easy to understand. I hope you enjoy it!
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 14


 
Canker sores
This worksheet contains a text about and oral pathology (canker sores) and an exercise for students to correct the mistake in the question formation process. It can be syntactic or a word that is missing or a wrong word use. It is challenging but clarifies many doubts about how to correctly ask questions.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 2

 


The Passive Voice -Explanation and exercises-
This presentation can be very useful to teach students about how to use the passive voice. It also contains some guided exercises and other freer exercises to practice speaking and writing. Different famous international characters were used to activate students� memories.

Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 17


Error analysis in TEFL/TESL
This presentation deals with current TESL/TEFL theory on the matter of correction. It shows some of the types of errors students commonly make and some ideas regarding how to tackle them. The topic can be helpful for novice teachers or teacher trainers. Hope you find it suitable!

Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 22


What do they do? occupations and their activities
This ppt contains the pictures of different sports people and as you click, the presentation will show first the photo, then what they are, and finally what they do (simple sentences in present simple). It has different famous people so we also challenge our students with knowledge on the area and m...

Level: elementary
Age: 6-17
Downloads: 13


Teaching speaking
This presentaation is a brief introduction to the fundamentals of teaching speaking. It is useful to present some notions to new teachers or trainees who are learning how to get their students started on the tasks of speaking.

Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 36


What is the EL/EFL Approach?
This presentation contains descriptions of the main English Teaching Approaches. The idea is to show each slide and have students guess and say why they believe it is the approach, then, the name appears and the teacher explains the rest. It is excellent especially for those interested in EFL/ESL te...

Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Downloads: 12


Third Conditional or Speculations
This presentation contains an explanation of the grammar, uses and function of the third conditional. You will also find examples that support those explanations. Besides, it presents a series of sentence-completion exercises in which clues and pictures have been included to facilitate understandin...

Level: intermediate
Age: 4-17
Downloads: 100


Teaching Grammar: A challenge for modern EFL teachers
This presentation is especially designed to raise a discussion about teaching grammar in the era of communicative language teaching. Each slide shows a myth and a good discussion with future and in-service teachers can be conducted. I recommend it for training teachers in this area and especially to...

Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 28


Second or the Unreal Conditional
This presentation contains the explanation of grammar, use and functions of the Second Conditional, illustrating each case with examples. Besides, it presents a series of sentence-completion statements to practice and deepen the concepts learned. Each of those statements also provides a picture to f...

Level: intermediate
Age: 4-17
Downloads: 107


Curious Superlatives in context
This presentation has slides at the beginning with three objects for the teacher to elicit comparative and superlative forms of the adjectives she considers appropriate. Then, there is a series of pictures describing the most... in the world. Some curiosities you can complement by asking students to...

Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Downloads: 13


Integrated skills in the EFL/ESL classroom
This presentation has relevant information about the importance that language skills integration has in any English class. It also shows some theoretical background on the matter and tips on the way we can achieve such integration. Useful to train new teachers and refresh our knowledge.

Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 23


Final Exam Language Use-UAM
Different types of items to evaluate knowledge acquired along a language use course. There is a diversity of items for students to practice the adequqte use of English.

Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100