Practice Present Tenses
People will be able to practice making questions and answers based on the two present tenses (present simple and present continuous). This activity can be done in pairs or groups of 3 to more. Very...
View ArticleClassroom Rules
This ppt presentation is useful to remember some classroom rules at the beginning of the school year. The students will remember some vocabulary and at the same time the rules that they have to obey....
View ArticleSong Worksheet: Show Must Go On by Queen
This worksheet can be used for practice modal verbs and present continuous. Song is not difficult for listening and children like it. This worksheet contains 3 tasks: 1) choose the right modal verb;...
View ArticleRestaurants & Eating Out
2 pages lesson plan on the topic of "Restaurants & Eating Out". Includes: reading, vocabulary, discussion questions, grammar and phrasal verbs. Level: beginner (pre-A1), elementary (A1),...
View ArticleSong Worksheet: Take Care by Drake & Rihanna
Fill in the gaps- an easy listening exercise for pre and upper levels.
View ArticleTake the Animals to Their Food
Children have to take the animals to their food by drawing sleeping lines from left to right. By this children will recognize the pet animals and the food they like to eat, they will also identify what...
View ArticleWord Order for Pre-intermediate
Word order practice allows students to understand the formation of proper sequencing in a sentence. Students can then detect patterns in order to form correct sentences. Word order is very important in...
View ArticleVerbs of Gerund and Infinitive Intermediate Worksheet
This is a worksheet for teaching or revising verbs of gerund and infinitive. Recommended for intermediate students who are asked to rewrite 23 sentences beginning them with the given words. The answer...
View ArticleContrast Clauses Intermediate Worksheet
This is a worksheet for revising contrast clauses. Recommended for intermediate students who are asked to rewrite the sentences beginning them with the given words. The answer key is included.
View ArticleSong Worksheet: 3 Popular Songs
Three songs with different exercises each, order the lines, find and correct the mistake, jumpled letters to form a word, and fill in the blank. Song titles: Hey..Ho by Lumineers, Soul Sister by James...
View ArticleListening to BBC Radio 4: Facebook and Twitter
This is a podcast from BBC Radio 4 and the questions I made for my students of upper-intermediate level. The topic itself is not that unique. However, I am sure, it will be an interesting lead-in to...
View ArticleRole-play: Gap Year
We played this role-play in our class with Russian students, so I asked the students to imagine that you can spend a gap-year not only before your studies, but also after the first or second year at...
View ArticleSpeaking with Past Simple Regular Verbs
These speaking cards were designed to make simple controlled conversation using regular verbs in the past for elementary students. There are two cards labelled A/B and eight questions in each card. The...
View ArticleComplete List of Contractions
This is, I belive, the most complete list of contractions. This work and information sheet tell you what a contraction is and when you should and shouldn't use them. There is an exercise for you...
View ArticleKim's Choice
This is a reading guide about the reader Kim's choice. It has activities related to vocabulary and the plot, too. I hope you find it useful. It has been divided in four lessons, students found it...
View ArticleGetting to Know Your Students: a Fun Diagnostic Test
Every year I start teaching English in a different school where I have no information about what my students know. ESL books come with a very boring diagnostic test and this gives the students the idea...
View ArticleHealthy Lifestyle
A 2 page lesson plan on the topic of "Healthy Lifestyle". Includes: reading, vocabulary, discussion questions, grammar and phrasal verbs. How to use these lesson plans: 1. Start with vocabulary. Ask...
View ArticleHow to Teach Your Students to Write an Essay
Being a teacher, you perfectly understand what skills your students should get in order to become successful. Their college life is impossible to imagine without paper work, and that is why it is very...
View ArticleESL Alert! Do You Make These Mistakes When Teaching English?
Have you ever noticed how some ESL students put their teachers on a pedestal? They seem to think we can do no harm. But we’re far from perfect, and we make mistakes – though, thankfully most students...
View ArticleTop 5 Ways for Busy Teachers to Make Some Extra Money [INFOGRAPHIC]
If you are good at your job as a teacher it's only natural to use the skills earned by hard work to get extra income through a similar but still a slightly different job, right? Check out our new...
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