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  PARAPHRASING
 PARAPHRASING EXERCISES
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
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  Paraphrasing Activity 1
 This is a partner activity where each partner uses other words and phrases to describe the words on their worksheet. Leading phrases are listed at the bottom of the paper. This is a great warmup that gets everybody speaking English!
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-100
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  Paraphrasing task (phrasal verbs)
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
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  Paraphrasing Rules + Worksheet, ex 1
 Paraphrasing "rules" (synonyms/word order/parts of speech) + worksheet
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type:

 


  Paraphrasing Rules + Worksheet, ex 1
 Strategies to paraphrase with examples with a worksheet
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type:

 


  Paraphrasing
 Its useful to practice paraphrasing
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type:

 


  inversion
 seldom, rarely, never, only when, if only, negative adverbials
Level: advanced
Age: 17-100
Type:

 


  Vocabulary paraphrasing
 This worksheet helps students define words� meanings without using translation to their mother language and helps them get familiar with word searching in English-English dictionaries.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type:

 


  Infinitive or Gerund Paraphrasing
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type:

 


  Paraphrasing game - adjectives
 In a game-like fashion, students match pictures of items to a paraphrase which encourages them to use this item. Paraphrasing is a key skill, often overlooked at. Using this worksheet, your students will soon master it and never fall back into their native language.
Level: elementary
Age: 10-14
Type:

 


  Paraphrasing Exercise
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type:

 


  Paraphrasing
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type:

 


  Pronoun paraphrasing
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type:

 


  paraphrasing
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type:

 


  Paraphrasing PET
 Twelve sentences to practise paraphrasing for those students who are sitting for PET.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-15
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PARAPHRASING
 This PPT covers paraphrasing through synonyms, passive voice, relative clauses etc. Enjoy!
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


 Sentence Transformation
 Tic Tac Toe game (colours instead of dots and crosses) with sentence transformation exercises. Fully animated, with all the answers. Directions of use are on the first slide just wait until the title disappears.108 sentences of passive, conditionals, comparisons and what not.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


 Paraphrasing
Powerpoint teaching students how to paraphrase.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


 Intensive Exam Practice: Grammar(4)
 Lots of exercises for SS preparing for their language exams (e.g. FCE). Prepositions, relative clauses, cleft sentences, articles and linking words in this ppt. For other grammar topics see the previous parts of the series: http://www.eslprinta bles.com/powerpoint. asp?id=51052#thetop http://www.eslprint ables.com/powerpoint .asp?id=50992#thetop ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


 Intensive Exam Practice: Grammar(2)
 This ppt prepares your students for their language exam (e.g. FCE). Suitable for practising/revising present, past and future tenses, and paraphrasing sentences. Lots of exercises in each category.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


 Intensive Exam Practice: Grammar(1)
 This ppt prepares your students for their language exam (e.g. FCE). Suitable for practising/revising grammar points: passive, conditionals, reported speech, paraphrasing sentences. Lots of exercises in each category.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


 Paraphrasing Sentences
 This ppt is suitable for exam preparation and revising/practising how to paraphrase/tranform sentences.Different structures are included (I wish, conditionals, although, passive, etc). 26 slides altogether,
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


 Contrast and comparison - paraphrasing/transfo rmation
 The aim of the presentation is to test students knowledge of comparative and superlative form. The student has to create a new structure with a little change in the meaning of the original (given) sentence.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


 Paraphrasing
 �Paraphrasing� - You see something - you want to say it�s name in English, but you�ve forgotten it (or don�t know it)... paraphrasing will help you describe the object to someone.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 

 
PET paraphrasing
 I�ve prepared this exercise to practise paraphrasing for the PET exam. The sentences contain many different structures. I hope you�ll find it useful.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100

 


 PET - B1 Practice paraphrasing
 It�s a PET based exercises to practise used to and would
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100

 


 Quoting, Summarizing, Paraphrasing Sources
 Worksheet for Quoting, Summarizing, Paraphrasing Sources
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100

 

 

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