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BODY VERBS; TWO AND A HALF MEN VIDEO CLIP
This is an 8/9 minute starter activity designed to work with a unit on the body/physical description for intermediate to advanced students. The students watch the extract from comedy show �Two and a Half Men� and re-order the actions as they appear in the clip. Additionally, they need to invent appropriate adverbs to go with the actions. The clip c...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 21
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SENTENCE BURGERS: CONNECTING CLAUSES
This is a sheet which is useful in helping students to get their heads round the structure of sentences. I introduce the idea of sentences as being like burgers (meat and bun!). Without the essential ingredients, it would taste disgusting! As a starter activity, cut out lots of separate clauses and connectives and have the students literally run ar...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 4
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FASHION VOCABULARY BINGO
This is a picture/word bingo card designed for upper intermediate/advanced students. It tests some basic clothing words as well as some quite difficult concepts (anachronistic for example). Enjoy! The answers are attached.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 4
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DISCOURSE MARKERS MEMORY INTERACTIVE CARD GAME
Fun �Memory� style card game to practice use of linking phrases and discourse markers. Instructions are attached and it is fully editable to suit the level of your class. Hope it�s useful!
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 11
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Cloze exercise based on Chile earthquake, 2010
This worksheet is a good reading comprehension but also contains challenging cloze exercise practising discourse markers and sentence openers.
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 39
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Song �Cell Block Tango� (Chicago): listening, crime vocab and writing
A really fun way to kick-start a unit on crime and crime writing. Students listen to the song (or watch the video off youtube) �Cell Block Tango� from the musical Chicago. As this is for advanced students, they fill in the blanks (focusing on idioms and phrasal verbs like �hit it off�), but they also must answer the word-formation and comprehension...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 36
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LADY GAGA ARTICLE AND VOCAB
My students LOVED this sheet (it helps that they are all obsessed with Lady Gaga). The vocabulary challenged them, and led to a discussion about fashion in the future (and practice of future tense). This sheet goes with the fashion bingo I have uploaded too. I hope it�s useful:).
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 76
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BODY AND CLOTHING IDIOMS MATCH
A worksheet where students match the image with the idiom, with an answer key which explains the origins of these common idioms. I also read out other idioms orally with gaps (eg "pull your ......up") and the students point to/shake the corresponding body part. Even advanced students love this for idiom practice!
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 21
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LISTENING AND DICTIONARY ACTIVITY: JAPANESE TATTOOING
Worksheet which accompanies the Youtube video on underground Japanese tattoo art, Irezumi (put Body art 6 7 in search engine -if any problems, please contact me). Listening exercise which also uses dictionary/thesaurus close vocabulary work. Leads to production of a discursive essay on tattooing. The activity engendered fascinating discussions with...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 16
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BODY VERBS CARD GAME
A fun body verbs game. Students work in pairs and put all the cards face down (so they cannot see them) on the desk. In turns they pick up a card and follow the instruction (explain the word, or mime �do� the action, eg sneeze). If the other student guesses correctly, they keep the card. The aim is to get as many cards as possible!
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 9
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