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MAGIC WORDS - of politeness - classroom poster, stickers, ideas
This is a classroom poster inspired by stexstme�s comments on the growing lack of basic culture (bravo, Sylvie, dear, never give up!). It�s a classroom poster to help teach your sts to be polite, with additional activities and reward stickers. People, let�s create a generation of polite kids, shall we? We might learn a lot in the process!
Level: elementary
Age: 3-17
Type: others
Downloads: 144
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Great love songs - collection 1
I�ve been sorting out my old love songs wss to see which I could use on Valentine�s Day 2010, so I started making collections. Here are: P. Gabriel�s Don�t Give Up, Anastacia�s Left Outside Alone, Limp Bizkit�s Behind Blue Eyes, Eric Clapton�s Wonderful Tonight and A Groovy Kind of Love by Phil Collins. More to come in a day or two. The difficulty ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 245
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ALL 4 CONDITIONALS - a poem and a worksheet
This is a worksheet based on my poem. It�s meant to help sts recognise and use all four conditionals. The poem touches on science fiction and ecology, and the need to change our ways, so it can also have some educational value, if not poetic. the tasks are reading comprehension, grammar and writing. I hope you find it useful. (Btw, it is in colour,...
Level: advanced
Age: 11-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 344
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STARDUST - WORDSEARCH
This is just a simple wordsearch I created for my intermediate students who had to do quite a big comprehension follow-up worksheet for the movie Stardust, so this wordsearch came as just a bit of fun. If you like the movie and feel like using it in class, there are several more complicated worksheets about Stardust in my collection.
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 10
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riddles
You can find 16 riddles in rhyme here with ideas on how to use them in class and expand them for all levels and age groups. Have fun! Riddles rock!
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 116
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FRIENDSHIP - role-play, Past Simple and projects
This is a worksheet with Past Simple and reading comprehension, along with several ideas about projects on friendship you can do with your students. The worksheet is based on one of the dialogues between George and his best friend Andy, written by F. Letras and used for this purpose with his kind permission. I hope you find it useful and inspiring.
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 174
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CARTOONS AND FRIENDS - kids� rhymes for a show
I couldn�t resist sharing this with you - it�s something I worked out for my level 1 sts to perform at the end of the school year in front of the parents. It consists of several rhymes about their favourite cartoon characters (I had 2-3 of them speak out each rhyme and added movements and costumes), and they end it with a rhyme about friendship (wh...
Level: elementary
Age: 7-9
Type: reading
Downloads: 43
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SUMMER PIRATE BOARD GAME (my board game no.2)
This is a board game I made for my kids (various groups, aged 4-12)for our final �pirate� summer farewell party. It can be played as a simple board game, or a giant one across the classroom (see instructions on last page). I added some colour to make it more fun, but it�s mostly b&w, so it can easily be printed like that. It�s rather simple, but yo...
Level: elementary
Age: 4-17
Type: others
Downloads: 99
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�ALLO�ALLO - short play for teenagers
This is a short play for intermediate teenagers. It is in printable b&w form on 2 pages to save space, so you can hand it out to your sts. I have also made a ppt which can be used for rehearsals or simply role-reading. It�s lots of fun and can be used along using an episode in a lesson, and teenagers love imitating different accents and the funny c...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: Choose
Downloads: 157
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CUTE ANIMALS - stories and worksheet
This is a collection of my 6 new, educational short stories about cute animals. Each story is on a separate card and has its own educational moral, so you can use it for a class discussion as well. The stories are about lying, being new, being different, being envious, etc. There is also a ws included, both in colour and b&w. You can use just this ...
Level: elementary
Age: 7-12
Type: Choose
Downloads: 159
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jobs ppt - have fun!
This is a short ppt I did with my kids to revise jobs. There�s some multiple choice, some writing, fill-in, etc. You can expand it on the same principle (I had to delete some slides, as it was too large to send)... I hope you find it useful.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-12
Downloads: 30
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PEOPLE IN THE PRESENT - present tenses and describing people
This ppt is prepared for adults (but can be used with teenagers as well) who still have problems with describing people and deciding when to use the Present Simple or when to use the Present Continuous. It drills the difference with practical picture descriptions, also expanding their vocabulary ban...
Level: elementary
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 66
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CHRISTMAS SPIDER - ROLE PLAY
This is an old role-play of mine based on world legends, tales, songs and nursery rhymes about Christmas(I�ve just updated the word doc uploaded here before). I�ve used it as role play and a puppet show and am planning to use it again this year. It�s nice to do with children, because there are lots ...
Level: elementary
Age: 6-11
Downloads: 74
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Past Simple - practical revision
This is a very simple ppt to revise the past simple tense. I used it with my kids and adults, and it was fun because we played it as games(each slide was one game) in 2 teams, and only made notes afterwards. I even used some exercises in a test later on.
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Downloads: 17
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FCE VOCABULARY PRACTICE
This is a ppt prepared for the FCE level. It contains a vocabulary task with multiple choice (with key), and a paraphrasing task (with key). Both tasks also contain an extra slide which is bw and printable as a ws or test (with key). These activities are then followed by a brain teaser which you can...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 86
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LIMERICK RIDDLES
This is a ppt with some limerick riddles I made - to add to my limerick collection of worksheets as I find limericks so much fun and highly effective. This one contains 6 limerick riddles on no specific topic, and a dare in the end. I hope you and your students enjoy limericks!
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 98
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THE SNOWFLAKE AND THE RING - interactive story for kids
This story was inspired and commissioned from me by my son. It�s a fairytale with parts which are unfinished, so you need to interact with your sts to get them to complete it. I�ve tried it with various age groups and levels, andit really works. It�s fun and creative and expands their vocabulary...
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-12
Downloads: 39
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GRAMMAR ASSOCIATION GAMES
This is a collection of 4 ppt association games (I used my own template - available in the free templates) for grammar revision. Each slide is one game and you can use all games at once to revise some grammar, or one by one as you introduce a certain topic. Hope you find it useful!
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 190
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CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP - advanced story writing
I designed this ppt based on an activity I sometimes do with my advanced students (FCE&CAE) - it�s a fun, creative way to expand their adjectives vocabulary and let their imagination do some work for them. They love writing stories about interesting photos with some, but not too much, guided vocabul...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 353
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advanced Halloween workshop
This is a ppt I prepared for my intermediate and advanced teenage students. They love writing Halloween stories, but we usually do some brainstorming before the actual writing, so this ppt also has some vocab-expansion activities in the beginning. I had problems adding sounds, so feel free to add yo...
Level: advanced
Age: 11-17
Downloads: 45
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FANTASY LAND 2
This is another part of my Fantasy Land collection (5 wss and another OE). This one is a bit more difficult - it requires reading and filling in the blanks from given options. Hope it�s of use!
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-14
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I WON�T GIVE UP - JASON MRAZ
I just couldn�t resist this song, the video and the melody. The tasks are rather simple (spelling, opposites and ordering by numbers), but the song is lovely and the video has a nice message. I�m planning to do it on Valentine�s Day, although the message is universal. I hope you like it.
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-100
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NIGHT LIKE THIS - ROMANCE
This is a simple exercise based on the song �Night Like This� by C. Emerald, with a listening task, vocabulary and writing tasks with adjectives and a short rhyming task with a silly love song at the end. I hope you like it.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
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DEMONS - IMAGINE DRAGONS
Trying to find a new song that has a message and no lyrics I would have to censor, I came across this one. I think it has something to teach my teenagers about not being superficial, about being self-critical, but also about relying on the good in each other. I prepared some tasks with synonyms, ant...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
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Comparison with Harry Potter
Another addition to moravc�s project Grammar with HP. This one is for comparison practice and uses Harry Potter characters to make it more fun. (Also available, a ppt game and ws about this). Hope it�s useful!
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100
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EMELI SANDE -CLOWN
The song is just too beautiful to miss. There are some follow-up vocabulary and comprehension tasks with Sande�s biography and explanation for the song. I hope your students enjoy it.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
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SHERLOCK HOLMES 2
This is the second part of my Holmes OE series. This one contains two tasks - the first one is a multiple choice task with info on Holmes from Wikipedia, and the second one is an open cloze based on listening to the words from the given TV-series trailer. I hope it�s useful to you.
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
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LIFE CHALLENGES
Our very own Victoria-ladybug posted this video in the cafe and I just wanted to make sth with it so it inspired me to make my first OE. It doesn�t focus on one particular grammar or vocabulary point, but it�s good for discussing problems, giving advice (should...) and motivating. The video is about...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
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LET IT SNOW - RUDOLPH�S COLOURS
This is a fun song about Rudolph I used with a video (littlestorybug) to revise colours. It also has a fill-in task with the basic Rudolph story below. I hope you get as hooked on the song as I have - it�s really cute!
Level: elementary
Age: 7-11
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CONDITIONALS WITH HARRY POTTER
This is an OE with four different types of conditionals (from zero to third) and a fun video/audio challenge at the end, based on Harry Potter stories. It�s another addition to moravc�s project on learning grammar with Harry Potter. I hope you find it useful!
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
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