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Discourse Markers - Alternatives to "Regarding"
A short explanation of the different ways to express the discourse marker (thank you Jayho) "regarding" in English in technical situations. I did this for my engineers but it can easily be changed for less technical contexts. There is a dice game to help the students practice and a second page with more practice sentences.
Level: advanced
Age: 11-100
Type:
Downloads: 40
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Distancing
A short worksheet designed to help people write in a formal manner or with expressions to help in presentations using distancing. This should be useful for articles. There is a dice game to help practice using the forms and expressions.
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-100
Type:
Downloads: 39
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Do they? - Present tense practice 3rd person plural
Beginners English - Well, more or less. You can use the images to get them to say positive and negative statements. Get them to repeat if necessary. Once that is done, Ask them questions that require a "yes they do" or "no they don�t" answer. Once that is done, get them to practice asking each other questions and answering using the same structur...
Level: elementary
Age: 14-100
Type:
Downloads: 10
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Dog and Jeep - Story and Debate
This won�t be to everyone�s taste as it involves the death of an animal so proceed with caution. This is supposedly a true story as related by the Darwin Awards. Do the reading in groups, pairs or however you want. Once read, assign roles for the debate, stand back and watch the fun. It might be an idea to use with my agreement and disagreement car...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 33
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Dutch Reach and Car-dooring Debate, - CAE reading exercise
An adapted reading from the Guardian made into the Part 1 of Reading and Use of English format. There is then a debate about the article. Answers are provided.
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 32
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Earthquake-proof Bridges Reading and Video Worksheet
A worksheet that has a list of questions for an episode of Richards Hammonds Engineering Connections all about the Rion Atirion Bridge. There is a link to the program on YouTube and a vocabulary box. The program lasts nearly 50 minutes. There is a time mark every 5 to 10 minutes or so for the teacher to pause the video and get the class to answer t...
Level: advanced
Age: 11-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 20
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Education Idioms
A small worksheet on idioms to do with education in some way. A small quiz is also included as are the answers.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type:
Downloads: 103
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Elision and Linking for Past Regular Verbs (part 2)
An exercise that is kind of connected to connected speech, if that makes any sense. Part one was more difficult so I have simplified it for mid-A2 level students. Answers at the back. I have found this helps when the students are trying too hard to pronounce every consonant when it just isn�t necessary. Please let me know if there are any mistakes.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 32
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Emergency Switchboard Dice-game
Another telephone dice-game. This time with the emergency switchboard operator. Not very serious though. It�s can be used before using my Emergency Switchboard Operator role-play or something similar.
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 69
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Emergency Switchboard Role-Play
We sometimes have to test the local emergency switchboard operators and I have some of the older role-plays left over. So, here they are.
Cut out the cards and divide them into �operator cards� and �casualty cards.�
On a board make a mind map of the kinds of questions emergency switchboard operators and accident victims would ask each othe...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 109
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