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Song Worksheet:Take a Break
Give your students a break this festive season. Let them dance to this old number (from Boney M), dance along if you like. This song has a number of versions and I chose a fast, peppy one for this...
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Movie Worksheet: Comedy Fill In The Blanks (Milton Jones)
This is perfect if you would like your ss to learn some vocab that has double meanings and understand some clever plays-on-words. First watch the youtube video of 'Milton Jones - Teachers' (3 minutes...
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Movie Worksheet:Thanksgiving Day (Friends' Episode)
This Friends' episode aims at getting ss to practice some vocabulary related to people's physical appearance as well as describing the clothes they are wearing by means of a fun and engaging activity...
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Movie Worksheet: Fawlty Towers - Worksheet & Role Plays
This is an activity that I prepared for my upper intermediate and advanced students and it was very successful. Students will practice listening, vocabulary, speaking and then create a role play....
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Song Worksheet: Tea Song (Yorkshire tea)
This worksheet is based on the video advertisement about Yorkshire tea. You can start with describing English tea traditions and the English passion about tea. Afterwards you could get to this...
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Movie Worksheet: Putrid Pirates - The Pirate Rulebook Worksheet
I've used this worksheet to practise can/could and as an additional exercise to topics about pirates and history in general. Students should reflect on the questions from the worksheet before watching...
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Christmas Lesson For Adult Students - Intermediate
This is a full lesson about Christmas. I prepared it having in mind my adult students. It starts with a speaking warm-up, followed by a text and vocabulary practice part. There is also a set of quotes...
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New Year's Resolutions - Speaking, Reading and Vocabulary Practice for Adult...
This is a great worksheet for the begining of the year when our students are still a bit lazy to start working on grammar issues. I created it having in mind my adult students. It starts with a...
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English Resource: I Eat Spaghetti with a Spoon
The title of this poem is 'I Eat Spaghetti with a Spoon'. Kids will love to read this funny poem. Students are asked to read through the comprehension and then answer the accompanying study questions....
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Movie Worksheet: Mr Bean Goes to the Dentist
My ESOL learners LOVE Mr Bean and I enjoy letting them watch it but I can't help feeling guilty as they aren't getting a lot of language input, being that Mr Bean doesn't say much. So, instead I get...
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Movie Worksheet: Notting Hill
A worksheet for a great listening practice based on the movie Notting Hill (Hugh Grant, Julia Roberts) to watch with pre-intermediate students or higher, adapted to the needs of adult elementary level...
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Betty Botter- Visual Tongue Twister Activity
This worksheet makes use of the Betty Botter Tongue Twister to help students with pronunciation. It includes a brief minimal pair practice in which students must match the words to their phonetic...
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How about Thai Food?- Funny Speaking about Food
This is a simple but funny activity I use with my intermediate students, but it can be adapted to almost all levels. There are 5 different prompts with some information about the character's likes...
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Movie Worksheet: Charlie Brown, It's Magic!
I made this worksheet for my mixed level (elementary/pre-int) summer school group. They are a rowdy lot but visuals seem to capture their attention. The video, Charlie Brown, It's Magic can be...
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Movie Worksheet: Mr. Bean Is Packing for a Trip
One of the things I love about using Mr. Bean videos is the varied topics that can be covered using them. We used this one for both past and present continuous, but it can also be used for the simple...
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Pyramid - Game to Practice Relative Clauses
Pyramid is an American game show based on guessing words. It is perfect for esl classroom as it uses mostly relative clauses and it is pure fun. Show students a part of an actual show (I used one from...
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Song Worksheet: Meet Tigger
This worksheet was created to be used along with the youtube video linked here.The tigger song plays on the screen and the words are written below as it goes. The students have to listen to the song...
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Traffic Violation Article
Presentation for B level students (or up to C) to talk about abiding laws. Includes vocabulary about traffic and violations that work with the article (a real article!). It is a funny story about one...
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Movie Worksheet: Animals Can Be Jerks (Kingston Crown)
Teaching material : YouTube. Objectives: to stimulate students to practice listening and speaking from some amusing VDO like Yahoo or YouTube. Instructions : 1) The teacher provides the worksheet for...
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Movie Worksheet: Pirates' Weather Superstitions
It's a warm-up or a short listening task for students of all ages based on the BBC 1 min "Horrible Stories Pirate Weather Report". This can be used as an extra-material on topics "Traveling",...
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