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Chinese New Year - Story Starter (Year of the Dragon)

Chinese New Year - Story Starter (Year of the Dragon)

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This worksheet asks students to look at the picture and write a creative story to go along with it. This resource can be used when teaching children about Chinese New Year or as a creative writing ...
4 Views 7,075 Elem
Chinese New Year - Story Starter (Year of the Rabbit)

Chinese New Year - Story Starter (Year of the Rabbit)

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This worksheet asks students to look at the picture and write a creative story to go along with it. This resource can be used when teaching children about Chinese New Year or as a creative writing ...
2 Views 4,471 Elem
Chinese New Year - Story Starter (Year of the Tiger)

Chinese New Year - Story Starter (Year of the Tiger)

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This worksheet asks students to look at the picture and write a creative story to go along with it. This resource can be used when teaching children about Chinese New Year or as a creative writing ...
2 Views 6,556 Elem
Chinese New Year - Story Starter (Year of the Ox)

Chinese New Year - Story Starter (Year of the Ox)

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This worksheet asks students to look at the picture and write a creative story to go along with it. This resource can be used when teaching children about Chinese New Year or as a creative writing ...
2 Views 5,705 Elem
Chinese New Year - Story Starter (Year of the Rat)

Chinese New Year - Story Starter (Year of the Rat)

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This worksheet asks students to look at the picture and write a creative story to go along with it. This resource can be used when teaching children about Chinese New Year or as a creative writing ...
2 Views 5,121 Elem
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Technology Webquest / Project

Technology Webquest / Project

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This is a pre-intermediate - intermediate webquest or project which can be completed over a few lessons. The students can do this as a classroom activity or it can be given as homework. The studen ...
9 Views 18,433 Pre-IntInt
Environment

Environment

This is a test which consists of text comprehension: true/false sentences and questions on the text; matching exercise related to the text ; crossword puzzle: wild animals. Grammar: Modal verbs ...
11 Views 27,298 Elem
What Do You Want to Be?

What Do You Want to Be?

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This is a very basic worksheet for elementary students that have had only a little writing practice. There is an example of how to write the first part of the sentence (I want to be a) at the top ...
3 Views 9,816 BegElem
Research Topic - Mount K2

Research Topic - Mount K2

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This resource has been created for elementary/primary students. It is a research topic about Mount K2. Students are asked to write a short report about Mount K2 and include the answers to the thre ...
5 Views 7,920 Elem
Research Topic - Mount Fuji

Research Topic - Mount Fuji

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This resource has been created for elementary/primary students. It is a research topic about Mount Fuji. Students are asked to write a short report about Mount Fuji and include the answers to the ...
5 Views 8,002 Elem
Research Topic - Mount Everest

Research Topic - Mount Everest

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This resource has been created for elementary/primary students. It is a research topic about Mount Everest. Students are asked to write a short report about Mount Everest and include the answers t ...
5 Views 8,625 Elem
Research Topic - The Mississippi River

Research Topic - The Mississippi River

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This resource has been created for elementary/primary students. It is a research topic about the Mississippi River. Students are asked to write a short report about the Mississippi River and to al ...
5 Views 7,678 Elem
Research Topic - The Ganges River

Research Topic - The Ganges River

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This resource has been created for elementary/primary students. It is a research topic about the Ganges River. Students are asked to write a short report about the Amazon River and to also include ...
4 Views 6,697 Elem
Research Topic - Amazon River

Research Topic - Amazon River

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This resource has been created for elementary/primary students. It is a research topic about the Amazon River. Students are asked to write a short report about the Amazon River and to also include ...
4 Views 7,790 Elem
Travelling in China

Travelling in China

It's a writing worksheet. The topic is travelling in China. In this worksheet, students will learn how to write a recount about their travelling experience. Students can acquire some reading skill ...
1 Views 13,361 Int
Essay Topics

Essay Topics

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Ten essay topics provided in this worksheet are really interesting and can easily draw the attention of students. What's more, sample compositions for each topic is given. I'm sure you'll like the ...
12 Views 17,733 Adv
Monster High: Write a Story in Past Simple

Monster High: Write a Story in Past Simple

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A private student of mine is fond of "Monster High" dolls and cartoons, and can talk about it for hours. After having noticed that more and more children started watching it, I thought that they m ...
11 Views 16,035 BegElem
Spice Up Your Sentences

Spice Up Your Sentences

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This worksheet differentiates between sentence types: simple, compound, and complex. It provides definitions, examples and an opportunity for students to write their own sentences. It's goal is ...
8 Views 15,694 Int
Three Types of CV

Three Types of CV

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In this material students will look into differences and similarities of three types of CV: Chronological, Functional and Combination. Based on the information gathered from the first task student ...
11 Views 20,987 IntAdv
Movie Worksheet: Jerry Maguire

Movie Worksheet: Jerry Maguire

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I created this worksheet for my pre-intermediate student interested in business. The topic is just right and the language is not complicated. We watch the film, the trailer and read reviews to it. ...
3 Views 11,964 Pre-IntInt
A Day in the Life Of

A Day in the Life Of

A creative writing worksheet to practice the use of present simple and continuous. To make it more interesting, elicit the names of famous people they dislike and then hand out the worksheets and ...
9 Views 14,372 BegElemPre-Int
How to Fight Pollution

How to Fight Pollution

It is a writing task about pollution. Students have got a few prompts, questions and images.They can use their science knowledge about the danger of pollution and the modal verbs, such as can/coul ...
6 Views 21,936 ElemPre-IntInt
Write a Story

Write a Story

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Write a story about... Nice prompts for unconventional stories. e.g. The group of teenagers went to the castle and they found there something what made them famous.
11 Views 14,109 Pre-IntIntAdv
My School

My School

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A lesson practising vocabulary connected with education in the context of reading about school life in other countries. This then leads to the students writing a short magazine article for homewor ...
23 Views 23,016 Pre-IntInt
Halloween Creative Writing

Halloween Creative Writing

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This is a writing activity to practice simple present third person singular. After a short warm up reading, the students are invited to write about a day in the life of Dracula. It's a fun way to ...
10 Views 14,520 Elem

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