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  1. Song Worksheet: Don't Stop the Music by RihannaSong Worksheet: Don't Stop the Music by Rihanna
    Rihanna hit song from 2008, "Don't Stop the Music" is full of Present Continuous examples. The worksheet I prepared is a fill-in -the-blanks activity for beginners. Students are supposed to use the verbs given in the box and apply them in the PRESENT CONTINUOUS form, respecting the GERUND rules, to fill in the blank spaces within the lyrics. You can first translate the verbs and check if the s ...
  2. The Rock - Simple Past vs Present PerfectThe Rock - Simple Past vs Present Perfect
    Use this worksheet to practice a little bit with your students when to use simple past or present perfect. Video is available on youtube. There are some tasks to activate knowledge and at the end students have to create their own sentence.  
  3. MoonMoon
    This is a new video and a poem about the MOON. There are 5 exercises. You can watch the video and read the poem. Then you can do the exercises (Circle the correct words, Fill in the missing words, Put the words in the correct order to make sentences, Our solar system, etc.) Have fun!!
  4. Punctuation MarksPunctuation Marks
    This grammar-guide presents in a clear manner the most important punctuation marks in English, (full stop, comma, semi-colon, apostrophe, etc.), explaining their use and providing examples (page 1-2). Page 3 contains a list of other signs and symbols (acute accent, plus-or-minus-sign, per cent sign, etc.).
  5. Past Simple: PracticePast Simple: Practice
    Students have to fill in the gaps of a short story about a road trip with verbs in the past simple (affirmative or negative). As a follow-up, you can ask students to share travel experiences with their classmates or even write a piece like the one in the worksheet. Verbs present: arrive, have, look for, find, stay, see, go, buy, lose, get, decide, take, be, can.
  1. Past Simple: PracticePast Simple: Practice
    Students have to fill in the gaps of a short story about a road trip with verbs in the past simple (affirmative or negative). As a follow-up, you can ask students to share travel experiences with their classmates or even write a piece like the one in the worksheet. Verbs present: arrive, have, look for, find, stay, see, go, buy, lose, get, decide, take, be, can.
  2. Holiday SurveyHoliday Survey
    This is a holiday survey of 8 questions useful when you would like to engage all of the students in a group to report on their holidays. This is also a tool to ask and answer questions in Past Simple Tense. After the survey students can report on their findings. In a group of around 16 students it is going to take up 45 minutes or even more.
  3. Song Worksheet: Don't Stop the Music by RihannaSong Worksheet: Don't Stop the Music by Rihanna
    Rihanna hit song from 2008, "Don't Stop the Music" is full of Present Continuous examples. The worksheet I prepared is a fill-in -the-blanks activity for beginners. Students are supposed to use the verbs given in the box and apply them in the PRESENT CONTINUOUS form, respecting the GERUND rules, to fill in the blank spaces within the lyrics. You can first translate the verbs and check if the s ...
  4. Order of AdjectivesOrder of Adjectives
    This is a grammar-guide about the order of adjectives (describing objects). It’s an explanation on how to use several adjectives in front of a noun. With some examples and a few illustrations. I hope you like it and find it useful. Have a nice evening/day. Hugs!
  5. Punctuation MarksPunctuation Marks
    This grammar-guide presents in a clear manner the most important punctuation marks in English, (full stop, comma, semi-colon, apostrophe, etc.), explaining their use and providing examples (page 1-2). Page 3 contains a list of other signs and symbols (acute accent, plus-or-minus-sign, per cent sign, etc.).
  1. Talk for a MinuteTalk for a Minute
    This ppt is a good game for your students to practice speaking for one minute on one of the topics that they are going to choose by luck, it is appropriate for a conversation class ( beginner- intermediate), I hope you enjoy it, it 's very interesting.
  2. Songs To Study English 2Songs To Study English 2
    This Teacher's resource pack contains 16 songs to study (and - I hope - to speak) English. I used them during my lessons, made some corrections and finally decided to share. The structure of the pack is: Teacher's notes for a song followed by a students' page (worksheet). Unlike Songs To Study English 1, you can use more games and other activities with songs. That's why Appendix was added. I ...
  3. Christmas Materials Package 2010: Tons of ActivitiesChristmas Materials Package 2010: Tons of Activities
    Here's a huge 41-page Christmas materials package kindly provided by www.learnwell.fi (also publicly available from their website) that is filled with dozens of ready-to-print Christmas materials, seasonal exercises on vocabulary and grammar, Christmas dialogues and more. Download it and see for yourself - and you won't be disappointed! Merry Christmas! Activities include: Christmas board game ...
  4. Christmas BookletChristmas Booklet
    In this booklet designed for my primary school pupils, who study English for five years, there are some of the most beautiful Christmas songs (Oh Christmas Tree, Jingle Bells, Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer, We Wish You a Merry Christmas, White Christmas, Happy Christmas) and fun activities (color by number, riddle, crossword puzzle, write a letter for Santa, Christmas acrostic write, read and ...
  5. Animal RiddlesAnimal Riddles
    Elementary worksheet consisting of 21 riddles. Students or teams of students read the riddles to each other and the other team has to guess. Focuses on reading aloud, pronunciation, listening, listening comprehension and team work. Enjoy!

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