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Politically correct English ;-))
Do we call someone LAZY ? Oh no, not any more!!! In the year 2009 we are politically correct and call him or her MOTIVATIONALLY DEFICIENT !
We don�t say a person is UGLY but use the term COSMETICALLY DIFFERENT. And guess what we call someone instead of saying he�s a COUCH POTATO?? Look it up in the cartoon on page 3.
This worksheet for advance...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 57
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Prepositions Challenge I - check yourself!
Prepositions Challenge I: Verbs + prepositions, Adjectives + prepositions. Students fold back the right part of the worksheet and later use it for checking their results. The column on the right can also be used for LEARNING as it repeats the verbs / adjectives before the prepositions. Have a look at Prepositions Challenge II, II and IV as well!
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 76
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Prepositions Challenge II: Check yourself
Prepositions Challenge II: Verbs + prepositions, Adjectives + prepositions. Students fold back the right part of the worksheet and later use it for checking their results. The column on the right can also be used for LEARNING as it repeats the verbs / adjectives before the prepositions. Have a look at Prepositions Challenge I, III and VI as well!
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 60
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Prepositions Challenge III: Check yourself
After 2 intermediate worksheets on prepositions this is now No. 3. It is on advanced level. Students FOLD BACK the column on the right, fill in the correct prepositions and then use it in order to check their results. They can revise quietly and don�t need a teacher for checking up. Have a look at worksheets I and II if you like, there is also IV...
Level: advanced
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 121
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Prepositions Challenge VI: Check yourself
Fourth in a series of worksheets in which students fold back the column on the right, fill in the correct prepositions and then check their results with the column on the right This column can be used for revising and study.
Level: advanced
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 107
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Q U E S T I O N S - A N D - J O K E R S
6 PAGES -- Activity designed to make students TALK. Over 100 cards with questions and lots of cards with jokers that occasionally permit students NOT to answer a question, to pass it on to someone else or to choose a different question.
Cut out cards. All the question cards go on one stack, the others onto the other one (blank side up. Students d...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 275
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Rapid answers, please!!
Ambush your students with these questions or impulses. Spring the questions at them and make them answer immediately. You can use one question for several students, their answers will be very different.
It�s a lot of fun since everybody is taken by surprise and doesn�t know what to expect.
One or two sentences as answers are sufficient. However,...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 50
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SINCE _ _ _ FOR
Very "basic" worksheet for those of my students who still do not know when to use SINCE and when to use FOR. No verb forms added, - expressions of time simply have to be put into the two categories to give students a "feeling" for whether they are talking about a point in time or a time span. Explanations and key added.
- Sorry,it�s really very b...
Level: elementary
Age: 11-14
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 9
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Stop commenting on my tattoo!!
In a letter to an agony aunt, a young woman complains about the unnerving comments people keep making on her large tattoo and enquires about how she can deal with these comments politely but firmly. - There are several tasks concerning role plays, group discussions, a written reply etc.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 15
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Stylistic devices -- rhetoric figures -- (3 pages)
Introduction to 15 stylistic devices, from hyperbole to euphemism, from climax to anaphora. _____ Cut this worksheet up and get your students to match the three categories: definitions, examples and the name of the stylistic device. (The order is correct as it is). ____
Print out several copies and make students work in small groups.
It will pro...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 50
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