My Own Planet
This worksheet is for practising different vocabulary, eg. appearance, clothes, dwellings, seasons... can be used with all levels except begginers and elementary students. Students can use their i ...
Describing Big Ben
Describing Big Ben is a writing prompt for Elementary and Pre-Intermediate levels. The students have to write a paragraph based on the facts and a picture they see in a box. Moreover they can fo ...
How to Write a (GOOD) Summary
This handout has been developed to guide students when they have to write a summary in English from a narrative text. It divides the process into different stages to make it easier and more meanin ...
Bonfire Night [Guy Fawkes]
This is a range of activities for all levels of students based on the plot by Guy Fawkes to blow up the Houses of Parliament. Use the activity for your level of students. There are various activi ...
Our Pastime Poem
Group the students and task them to make their own poem about their pastime following the given sample. In this activity, they will be able to express their opinions about various pastime. They wi ...
Creative Writing: Create Your Jellybean
This is a creative writing worksheet that practices descriptive adjectives and simple present verbs. You have to create a new flavor of jellybeans. Using the simple present tense, you can practic ...
On Writing
When you work to inspire young writers in school, you may find this presentation useful. I have made an excerpt from Sol Steins advice on how to write in an interesting way. I have used this prese ...
First Person Narrative
a worksheet I use it with grade 7 to give them a sample of first person narrative . In addition to some questions to focus on what the student suppose to write in the introductory paragraph of a s ...
Characteristics of Fictional Texts
Simple worksheet that explains the characteristics of fictional text. It includes two skills: reading and writting. It contains well known fictional stories: The Ant and The Grasshopper, Little Re ...
Video Worksheet: The Gruffalo's Child
I made this using the excellent BBC animation which looks at verb usage, prepositions and spelling. The participants watch the film while completing the exercises. The teacher can pause it between ...
Finish the Sentence
Level: Good beginner/Intermediate. A simple activity which at first sight looks like a grammar-type exercise. However, the students must complete one of the 25 unfinished phrases of passages of s ...
Connectors and Linkers
This is a compilation of the main words and structures that are used in English to connect and relate ideas within a text. There are several squares according to the different functions, and withi ...
My Own Time Capsule
I wish I could upload the whole kit in one file! I use this in the first day of class, but you can use it any day. This is how I do it: The students get: -One copy of this worksheet; -One card fr ...
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