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Reading for Meaning
Extract from �On Foot Through Africa�
by Ffyona Campbell
Ffyona Campbell is a long distance walker. On 2nd April 1991, she left Cape Town, South Africa and walked the length of Africa covering over 16,000 km before arriving in Tangiers, Morocco two years later on 1st September 1993. She wrote a book about her journey.
You will read about ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 20
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Simple Past Tense
This passage is written in the simple present tense. Verbs are underlined. Students rewrite the passage in the simple past. I use this passage as a starter activity at the beginning of a lesson. A nice, short homework piece too. Also good to use with daily routine lessons.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-12
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 20
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Grammar Teaching Record
I use this grammar teaching record when planning a unit of work to record the grammar I include in a topic. It can also be used for team planning where teachers colour code the grammar they teach within a unit of work. Can be used electronically or as a hard copy.
Level: intermediate
Age: 3-17
Type: grammar-guide
Downloads: 10
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What is a metaphor?
This worksheet is used to support the teaching of metaphors in writing. Students read the sentences, underline the metaphor and explain its meaning. Crocodile in top right hand corner looks odd/text cut off in worksheet preview, ok when printed.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-14
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 9
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Helping your child: parent checklist
Suggestions for improving achievement
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: others
Downloads: 7
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My First Day of High School
This text gives an account of student�s first day of high school. It is written in the form of an advice text with sub headings. Activities included: brainstorm, idioms, word order, order of events.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-14
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6
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Literary Non Fiction
This lesson introduces the topic of literary non fiction. Introduces autobiography, biography, letters, diary, travel writing and report - short, sample text extracts where students complete grid that highlights features of each of the above texts. Lesson plan and word / sentence activities included.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6
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Big Cat Holidays
I use Big Cat Holidays to assess reading after teaching a non fiction unit. Big Cat Holidays assesses students� understanding of the use of language, including grammatical and literary features at word and sentence level. Alternatively, the webpage could be used as a teaching tool and the assessment activities could be used to teach features of ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 3
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