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TEST YOUR SKILLS IN ENGLISH
A wss of general practice for intermediate students to test their competence in English. Given fourteen pairs of sentences, apparently identical or quite similar, they should distinguish 1) why the sentences of each pair have different meanings and 2) the grammar/vocabulary/punctuation rules that make them be different. It takes some time..... Key ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 27
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THAT�S A LAUGH!
Humour, laughter, jokes : an interesting, pleasant topic. The wss offers some strategies to understand jokes in English and the context where they occur. A great variety of exercises on the topic: reading, writing, speaking... with different tasks for each of them. Key.
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-16
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 214
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THE HORROR WEEK PROJECT
This HWP is quite appropriate for these days of late October. It needs at least 5 school periods and some of the investigation work on the net should be done at home. I provide detailed explanations of how to carry it out on the last page of this contribution. Nevertheless, in short, the steps to be followed are these:
1) Presenting a list of evil...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-15
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 106
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THE HUMAN VALUES OF A NUMBER ONE
A reading text that gives a view on the figure of Rafael Nadal not only as a well-known sportsman but as an outstanding human being as well.
Tasks: 2 comprehension exercises, 1 vocabulary, 1 grammar and 2 exercises of written expression. Key included
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 127
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THE LANDLADY by Roald Dahl
This is the final passage of �The Landlady�, a short story by Roald Dahl. The aim of the wss is to encourage the sts to read the whole story (or maybe some others different from the ones they must have read when children, such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory or James and the Giant Peach).The Landlady is a motivating, intriguing story that leav...
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 253
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THE PASSIVE VOICE: ALL TRANSFORMATIONS
A grammar chart to show and explain in a concise, simplified and schematic way all the possible transformations from an active sentence to a passive
one. Each category has its corresponding practice exercises. Key
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: grammar-guide
Downloads: 533
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THE SOUNDS OF ENGLISH
Good pronunciation is essential to master or, at least, be good at a foreign language. But most students tend to think that phonetics is a boring, arid topic.That�s why I�ve started to create some worksheets to show my sts. that you can have a (reasonably) pleasant time when practising sounds in English. This is my aim, if I get good results, I�ll ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-15
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 229
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THE SOUNDS OF ENGLISH 2
My second worksheet on phonetics, phonemes and sounds. This one is for practising with the vowel phonemes /ʌ/ and /�/, sounds which are rather difficult, at least for Spaniards. The wss consists of some tasks: 1) a detailed explanation of how to pronounce both of them, position of the mouth, spelling and examples. 2) quite a few short, differ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 162
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William & Kate/Charles & Diana: Comparing the relationships
Two adapted articles about recent events in the history of The British Monarchy.Tasks:scanning for information to fill in a chart;quick/short questions about both articles; some writing in the readers� opinion section; group discussion about monarchies
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 166
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WORD ASSOCIATION 1
This is the 1st wss of a set of 3 (from upper-intermediate (1&2) to advanced level (3)) to revise or learn new words, which should be related in groups of three according to the semantic field they belong to. They should try and explain,afterwards, the common link among the words of the same team. They can be used as a whole or separately as a regu...
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 172
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