Punctuation Mark Card Game
Students can make cartoon characters (people, superheros, animals...) out of the punctuation marks on the cards. Playing games with the cards will reinforce both the name and shape of the mark. I have...
View ArticlePronunciation of Regular Verbs in Past Simple Tense
This simple worksheet helps students be more aware of the pronunciation of "ed" endings when using the past simple tense. Students classify verbs according to the pronunciation endings. Can be done in...
View ArticleStative Verbs - I'm Loving It
A student asked me to explain if "I'm loving it" was grammatically correct! I found this great blog post (http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/im-loving-it-grammar.aspx) and used it as a basis for this...
View ArticleOn the Farm
It's a power point file containing sounds and pictures of farm animals. This is suitable for kid's classes. I made it for engagement stage and my students really enjoyed it. You can show the slides,...
View ArticleLiving in Stockholm
This is a text about living in Stockholm( + 3 exercises). Skills to be developed: reading and understanding,work with a dictionary and speaking( answering questions about the text and some ideas for...
View ArticleMovie Worksheet : Gifted Hands
This worsheet was prepared for an online discussion of the film "Gifted hands" and was originally presented on Google Drive. So, maybe, it's not perfect for printing (too many pages) but is very good...
View ArticleFilling Forms Vocabulary
This is a set of worksheets designed to help with form filling and applying for jobs.It can be used for cutting and matching once the powerpoint has been shown. The powerpoint is used to introduce the...
View ArticleFilling Forms Vocabulary 2
This is a set of worksheets designed to help with form filling and applying for jobs. It can be used for cutting and matching once the powerpoint has been shown. The powerpoint is here to introduce the...
View ArticleBasic Test: Face Parts and Verb to Be
This is a basic test on face's parts and two more excercises on verb to be. Can be use as a warm up. Kids could used the face image to write the part indicated by the arrow and name as for example,...
View ArticleTelephone Messages Conversation
This is a nice role play invloving speaking. Try to find the information from the phone talk and sayl it clearly, change the pronoun based on who the person you talk to is. Concentrate on changing the...
View Article'Nice' Adjective
A good exercise to build vocabulary and make synonyms. It also aids in understanding adjectives better. A follow up activity can be the video which illustrates how important it is to increase your...
View ArticleCultural Quiz
This is a cultural quiz for students of,for example, primary school to check their knowledge about English speaking countries. There are 50 questions which students have to answer in groups at...
View ArticlePhrasal Verbs
These are two tasks connected with different phrasal verbs. Students can learn them in the context given because these phrasal verbs are in mini dialogues. There are 15 sentences spoken by one person...
View ArticleTEFL.net: BusyTeacher's Detailed Review
TEFL.net is described on their website as a free independent resource site for teachers of English worldwide. TEFL resources include worksheets, articles, advice, forums, job ads, and lessons. The...
View ArticleAddressing Student Individual Needs: (But How do You Even Know What They...
It probably hits an ESL teacher several weeks into a semester: ESL students are diverse. This probably seems so much a truism as to be laughable, but we sometimes forget it: even a relatively...
View ArticleHow to Use Email Writing in the ESL Classroom
The Internet has come a long way and a lot of things have changed – but email has been there right from the start. Far and wide, it has become the medium of communication of choice, which is why it is...
View ArticleAlphabet: A Stands For ...
This worksheet is for beginners. They have to find more words which begin with the different letters. I made this worksheet for kids in class 3 in Germany. They start learning English and know some...
View ArticleSpring
This is a small text for beginners in learning English. They learned new English words about spring and Easter. Now they can fill in missing words in this text, they practise their new vocabulary and...
View ArticleSong Worksheet: Guavaberry
It's a song for elementary students. You can review present continuos tense.It's a tropical song useful to work with adults. Pronunciation is very clear and the rythm is nice. It has four different...
View ArticleConjunction Tip
A nice trick to remember all conjunctions. The graphics are also very interesting and activities can be made around it. Either it can be hung in class or a b/w print-out can be taken and students can...
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