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Commas to separate sentence elements
Guide dealing with how to use commas to separate sentence elements and to separate items in a list. Final exercise is a paragraph which the students need to add the commas into.
Answers are provided on page 3.
(Does not cover restrictive and non-restrictive clauses.)
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: grammar-guide
Downloads: 31
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SAT-style critical reading / reading comprehension / identifying sentence errors on a text about an 1895 archaeological expedition
Text from Project Gutenberg. Exercises following SAT model: 1) identifying sentence errors and 2) critical reading. Answers also provided.
Level: advanced
Age: 15-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 31
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will/would clauses: how to talk about predictions and hypotheses
A detailed overview of how to use modal verbs, future and conditional to add nuance to your predictions and examples.
For advanced learners. I used this to prepare ACT and SAT essays.
Suggested answers are provided on p2.
Level: advanced
Age: 13-100
Type: grammar-guide
Downloads: 29
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Causative form: have/get something done, make someone do something etc.
An overview of the following structures:
have/get something done - have someone do something - get someone to do something - make someone do something
There are clear explanations of the structures and the subtle differences in meaning between them, followed by two authentic texts and exercises (open-ended questions as well as grammar gap-fill se...
Level: advanced
Age: 11-100
Type: grammar-guide
Downloads: 29
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Easily confused words: use - used to do - be used to doing - usually
A clear explanation of the commonly confused phrases use, used to, be used to and usually.
Worksheet covers pronunciation, open-ended expression and sentence correction (choose the correct option).
Answers are on the final page.
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
Type:
Downloads: 28
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Music and music preferences pairwork discussion activity
Questions about music and music preferences; useful phrases to include in answers. Pupils work in pairs or small groups. Suggested activity: they interview each other using the questions provided. Each time a pupil answers a question, they must draw one of the phrase cards (p2) from a hat or envelope and include that phrase in their answer. Increas...
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 27
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Vocabulary exercise based on article "Victorian coffin prank"
An article containing some lesser-known English words and vocabulary exercises to help learners to deal with that vocabulary.
Level: advanced
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 27
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Language of possibility - talking about things that might happen
Some useful phrases to discuss the likelihood of a certain event taking place. Pupils complete the sentences in exercise 1, then answer the questions in exercise 2 using an appropriate phrase from the list. Finally, they should discuss (and justify) their views on the statements given in the exercise 3. Works well for 1-1 tuition but should also be...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: others
Downloads: 27
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Guy Fawkes� night: listening and vocabulary exercises
A vocabulary matching exercise, listening comprehension, and phrasal verbs exercise based on a listening text about Guy Fawkes� night on November 5th in the UK. (Link to mp3 file is included in the word document.) Source text is on p1, exercises on p2 and p3, answers on p4 and p5 of the word document.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 27
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Practise PRONOUNS - based on article about smoking in cars with children
Text about a ban on smoking in cars with children and associated exercises on pronoun use. Designed to be used after a lesson on pronouns to show pupils why it�s important in the �real world� to aid with text comprehension.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: article
Downloads: 24
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