The Tale of the Three Brothers: Past Simple Handout
I'm a big fan of Harry Potter and I just remembered this scene from the movie. Students have to complete the handout by writing the correct verb as they listen to and watch the movie. You can always...
View ArticleSong Worksheet: Every Drop of Rain by David Byrne
This is a song I discovered long time ago. I was planning one of my lessons and I didn't know what to do for next class, so I played some music on my computer and, magically, as I listened to the song...
View Article7 Simple Activities for Teaching the Simple Future
Try These 7 Simple Activities to Teach the Simple Future 1 Dreams of Someday Whether your students are planners or prefer to fly by the seat of their pants, writing a five year plan can be beneficial...
View ArticleTo Whom It May Concern: Phrases, Structures, and Register of Business
I just downloaded some information from a writer’s website about its materials submission policy. This was not a contract but rather an explanation of the site, its business, and its services for...
View Article7 Best Sources for New Vocabulary
Try These 7 Best Sources for New Vocabulary with Your Students 1 It's Black and White Use a newspaper or magazine to teach new vocabulary. Have students choose one unfamiliar word from an...
View Article7 Idiom Activities to Get Your Students' Creativity Flowing
Try These 7 Idiom Activities to Get Your Students' Creativity Flowing 1 Back to the Source Can your students guess how an idiom might have originated? If not, can they tell a creative story that shows...
View ArticleSong Worksheet: I Said I Loved You, But I Lied by Michael Bolton
A worksheet to practice reported speech with an exercise based on Michael Bolton's song I Said I Loved You, But I Lied to show that sometimes we do not need to change the tense if the original...
View ArticleSong Worksheet: Imagine by John Lennon
I find this song really meaningful and the words are not too difficult for my students so I made an exercise with it. There are three worksheets all together, all are blank-fill exercises. The first...
View ArticleA New World
This is designed to be a speaking activity for upper - intermediate students. It has a frame work so that the teacher can intervien when necessary but allows students to openly express opinions. I like...
View ArticlePrefixes (+ key)
This worksheet consists of two exercises to practise word formation involving prefixes. In 1 the studnets have to match the prefixes and their meaning. In 2 the have to add the correct prefix to the...
View ArticleThat's My Village! (+ key)
There is a text describing a village and three exercises about it. In 1 the students are asked to say if the sentences are True/False and correct the false ones. In 2 they have to tick the buildings in...
View ArticleMake or Do Collocations (+ key)
This workheet consists of 20 pictures and 20 sentences with gaps all of them involving collocations with do or make. The students have to fill in the gaps with the correct form of do or make. After...
View ArticleBasic English Conversation Questions
Here's a worksheet I created for my low-literacy, adult English classes. It covers a variety of question structures and subjects that they are likely to hear in their community. I made copies of this...
View ArticleMovie Trailer: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Listening activity based on the trailer of The Two Towers. I play the students the movie trailer two times and have the students fill in the missing words. I find it helpful for the students to listen...
View ArticleSong Worksheet: California King Bed by Rihana
Hello there!You may revise some body parts as well as irregular verbs by listening to Rihana's song_California King Bed. In addition, the file contains label exercise and reading for gist in search of...
View ArticleSong Worksheet: Little Things by One Direction
This is a simple worksheet with a "fill in the blanks" exercise. The song is a new song by the teen group One Direction called "Little Things". There is also a key for the teacher. I hope your students...
View ArticleVideo Lesson: Envelope
This is a a worksheet with some tasks, exersises based on a short but interesting movie "Envelope" that can be successfully use to teach how to write letters. This film triggers a lot of discussion,...
View ArticleSong Worksheet: Leave Out All The Rest [Present Perfect]
I've just turned one of my favorite songs into a worksheet to practice the present perfect tense... I haven't used it yet but I'll try it on my next class.I would first have ss read the lyrics and...
View ArticleWalking Tour
It's the first part of this lesson. The pre-reading is devoted to developing map-reading skills; it includes several tasks that will engage the sts attention and narrow it to the lesson's topic. The...
View ArticleSpeaking Out
This worksheet has 10 situations for discussion. Students should be divided into two teams. The captain of one team gives the situation to the member of the opponent team. He has to listen carefully to...
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