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Stupid People Awards
This is a record of the �Darwin� award for the most stupid person in 2007. Students have to match the three parts of each account to find the completed text. Not too difficult, but when put together, some of these are quite funny. It is amazing how dumb people can really be!!! I think these are all true, but if not they should be!!! Complete a...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 102
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The Queue
This is a series of 36 cards which states the place where a person is standing in a queue (line up). This is ideal as a warmer, or ice breaker. Each student has to find their place in the line by finding what the person in front and behind is doing. Full instruction on how to stage manage this are given on the first page. (Not sure if this is o...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 45
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Tutorial - How to reduce size of pictures using PAINT
This is uploaded in response to the numerous questions about How to reduce the size of illustrations. I show how to reduce a 9mb photograph to 16kb using Microsoft Paint. This method is not foollproof and there are other programs that can probably do it better, but everyone has Paint and so everyone can try it. Enjoy.
Level: elementary
Age: 3-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 559
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Tutorial -Triggers in PowerPoint
This is a short introduction to quite a complicated facility available in PowerPoint. If you can master the basics of using triggers, then you can make your presentations much more interactive and interesting. PowerPoint is a powerful tool at the disposal of a growng number of teachers. The sad fact is that many teachers don�t know - or don�t wa...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: Choose
Downloads: 181
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world�s easiest quiz
This worksheet can be used in small groups or pairs, or can be given as a �pop quiz�. The answers seem obvious, but are not all they seem. They are given on page 2 of the quiz. A fun activity for intermediate students and above
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 10
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Writing - Round Robin
Arrange the class into small groups of 3, 4 or 5, sitting in a circle round a table and give each one a copy of the worksheet. Tell them to each fill out the beginning section of the sheet with their own ideas. Then when all have completed the first section, pass all the sheets to the right and each one complete the next section. Keep repeating ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 9
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Hidden pictures
This is another demonstration powerpoint showing the power of triggers. This is a picture with lots of other little pictures hidden within it. Move the cursor over the picture and it turns into a hand. If you click on the correct spot, the small picture will be circled, click on the wrong spot a...
Level: elementary
Age: 7-17
Downloads: 43
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How to make flash cards in Word 2
This is the second in the series of how to make Flash Cards in Word. The first one shows how to make up the boxes, this one shows how to insert text and pictures. These flash cards are �hands on� size, so I make several sets for each class. I have used 10 sets of cards in one class of 50 kids and...
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-17
Downloads: 37
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How to Make Flash cards with Word
This presentation is inspired from FrenchFrog�s excellent introduction to making stylised boxes as flash cards. This gives a simple introduction how to make a template that can be used over and over again to insert your own pictures or text. All the boxes will be the same size and so can be cut ou...
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-17
Downloads: 66
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Intelligence Test for students who think they are really clever!!!
Do not be deceived at the plain look of this presentation in the view window, you cannot see the content until you download it. This is a �light hearted� set of questions that will have your class saying "duh!!! I knew that!!!!) Try it yourself before trying it on the kids. This uses triggers, so...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 104
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Interviews - an introduction to classroom methodology
This is a �methodology� introduction how to organise the class to undertake interview type role plays. I have done this with classes of over 40 participants. The benefit of this style of activity is that the participants get to do the same activity four or five times, but without it becoming too b...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 31
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Introduction how to use PowerPoint for Pelamanism
This is a powerpoint show to demonstrate how to use PowerPoint to play the traditional game of pelmanism, which is an ESL matching game. With PowerPoint you can have many more objects than the traditional game which requires the making of numerous cards. Check out all the pelmanism games that I wi...
Level: elementary
Age: 7-100
Downloads: 0
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Jolly Phonics - blending phonemes
This PowerPoint uses the first 12 letters prescribed by Jolly Phonics and can be used to demonstrate blending. The menu on the left is the list of words that are demonstrated and the buttons below allow the teacher to select the letters one at a time or to have them appear together with an arrow th...
Level: elementary
Age: 3-7
Downloads: 31
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Kitchen equipment and machinery - Matching
A matching exercise to introduce kitchen equipment. Put the class into small groups and have them match the letter with the object. To show the solution, simply click on the letter next to the picture. This is the first presentation in a series of KIm�s Game type of activities to test the memory ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-17
Downloads: 11
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Kitchen Furniture - anagrams
This is a game where the slide presents all the furniture, in the form of words, but they are mixed up as anagrams. Organise the class into groups to solve as many of the anagrams as possiboe. Click on each anagram to reveal the correct word. See also the kitchen furniture matching presentation to...
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-17
Downloads: 8
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Kitchen furniture - Kim�s game
This is a kim�s game where the slide presents all the furniture, the next slide shows the same items with three of them missing. The class should be challenged to work out which 3 are missing. Click on the numbers to show the missing items.
The final slide is instructions how to make more slides s...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-17
Downloads: 9
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