Brick by Brick: How to Teach the Building Blocks of Language
If you ask the average person on the street what the basic unit of language is, they will most likely say it is the word. After all, words combine to make sentences which convey meaning. If a person...
View ArticleEnglish for IT Outsourcing or Why I Love Teaching Programmers
I am living in a Ukrainian city of Lviv which might soon become another Silicon Valley – there are hundreds of IT outsourcing companies here, employing anywhere from five to one thousand programmers,...
View ArticleColourful Time Flashcards
This is a set of colourful cards that you can use as bingo or telling the time for children in class. The aim is to learn how to tell the time correctly. These cards are very useful for pair and group...
View ArticleMiscellanea 5
Four activities about verbs to be, have got and there is/are. You can use them to revise these grammar points. The first activity is about the verb to be. The second activity is about the verb have...
View ArticleCompound Words (1)
Compound words are two words that can be joined together to make another word. This English worksheet asks students to look at the picture and write the compound word under each picture. There are nine...
View ArticleCompound Words (2)
Compound words are two words that can be joined together to make another word. This English worksheet asks students to look at the picture and write the compound word under each picture. There are nine...
View ArticleCompound Words (3)
Compound words are two words that can be joined together to make another word. This English worksheet asks students to look at the picture and write the compound word under each picture. There are nine...
View ArticleTexting and IM Language Mix and Match
I find that most of the text book lessons are boring on their own so I try to spice things up a bit by making my own worksheets. Basically this is a mix and match worksheet for Elementary-...
View ArticleFacebook Vocabulary
Most students use Facebook in their own native language and they don't know the terms we use for Facebook in English. This worksheet aims to make such terms clear + a lesson on Facebook is a great...
View ArticleLife Cycle of a Butterfly
The title of this worksheet is 'Life cycle of a butterfly'. The life cycle of a butterfly is made up of four parts - egg, larva, pupa and adult. Students are asked to read the comprehension and answer...
View ArticleAnimal Groups
Animals can be put into different groups: mammal, reptile, fish, bird, insect. This worksheet focuses on animal groups. Students are asked to look at the animals and then write them under the correct...
View ArticleAnimals and Their Young
The title of this worksheet is 'Animals and their young'. There are ten animals in each list. Students are asked to draw a line to match the mother and her baby e.g. cat - kitten, dog - puppy etc. This...
View ArticleTop 10 Spoken Languages
This ppt is made for the conversation class (for teenagers and adults). The students can practice countries/nationalities/languages. This ppt also has a worksheet. At the beginning of the class, the...
View ArticleAnti-Smoking Laws
Anti-smoking laws provides a reading material that aims for Elementary up to Pre-Intermediate Students. It is basically the staple for a Reading-Comprehension activity or a translation task. The latter...
View ArticleIrregular Verbs ( Romanian Translation)
I offer a few pages of small cards containing names of irregular verbs and their Romanian translation. Good for practice while learning these irregular verbs. You can print and laminate, then cut them....
View ArticleSong Worksheet: Feel This Moment by Cristina Aguilera and Pitbull
This is a worksheet with the song Feel this moment(Cristina Aguilera and Pitbull), the students listen to the song and then do different exercises. Filing the gaps, complete with the missing words...
View ArticleKey to Imagine Dragons Radioactive Song Worksheet
This worksheet is just a key for students to check the Imagine Dragons song worksheet, wich I had also uploaded here. Hoping that it will help you to do it and to create more activities for the...
View ArticleIt’s All Relative: How to Teach Relative Clauses and Why You Need To
Relative clauses are dependent clauses which define or explain a noun. They are not the most simple English grammatical construction, and most students don’t tackle them until they are advanced in...
View ArticleSong Worksheet: I'll Be There For You by Bon Jovi
A simple "fill in the blanks" activity. Great, classic rock song. Fill in the blanks is one of my favorite kinds of listening activities, because it's always fun and everybody loves music. Good for...
View ArticleMovie Worksheet: Mr Bean (Reflexive Pronouns)
This worksheet deals with reflexive pronouns and consists of a table on subject pronouns and their reflexive equivalents, a small gap-fill exercise and a true-false video activity on a hilarious...
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