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Creative Writing - Thanksgiving Story (2)

Creative Writing - Thanksgiving Story (2)

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Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada. It is a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year. This picture sh ...
2 Views 12,692 Elem
Creative Writing - Thanksgiving Story (1)

Creative Writing - Thanksgiving Story (1)

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Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada. It is a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year. This picture sh ...
2 Views 16,583 Elem
Meal Time

Meal Time

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Use this worksheet to review food related vocabulary, meal times, adverbs of frequency and verbs have and eat. Students fill in the table with words and then write a small text below describing wh ...
3 Views 14,594 ElemPre-Int
Story Writing

Story Writing

Rania Foka
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The worksheet is for youmg learners attending a third year of ESL. It aims at facilitating their writing a story by putting in the verbs into the tense and also by using the known vocabulary and i ...
12 Views 34,584 Pre-Int
Writing Exercise

Writing Exercise

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Easy exercise for students. It gives you a fact file with basic information. The teacher can combine the level of the text and the number of words. At the same time, it offers the possibility of ...
4 Views 14,099 ElemPre-Int
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Process Writing: Biography

Process Writing: Biography

Maria Alejandra Gimenez
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In this worksheet you will find a process writing lesson plan to guide your students in writing a biography. It contains different stages in process writing, texts to be analysed, a grammar practi ...
4 Views 25,045 ElemPre-Int
Creative Writing

Creative Writing

dotty
The goals of this worksheet is to encourage learners to be more descriptive in their writings, using new vocabulary in terms of adjectives. They are asked to complete several exercises including f ...
8 Views 19,643 Pre-IntIntAdvExam
Celebrities, Part 2 (Writing)

Celebrities, Part 2 (Writing)

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This can be used as a pre-task to the power point presentation that I provided entitled "Celebrities". Go through the pronunciation of the countries and the nationalities outlined on the worksheet ...
4 Views 13,959 ElemPre-Int
Adding Adjectives

Adding Adjectives

dotty
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This worksheet is designed for learners to use their understanding of adjectives and learn how to produce more creative writing. The exercises consist of rewriting sentences using synonyms for cer ...
2 Views 19,437 Pre-IntIntAdv
Grammar Worksheet: Used To

Grammar Worksheet: Used To

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Grammar and writing practice. At the top of page: grammar box showing sentence structure. At the bottom of page: use your imagination and write about what people 'used to do' before these inventi ...
8 Views 50,467 Adv
What is Halloween? Reading & Grammar Practice

What is Halloween? Reading & Grammar Practice

Robert Dobie
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Page 1: Reading practice - 259-word article about the history and tradition of Halloween; Page 2: Ten reading comprehension questions; Page 3: Grammar practice - same article but with 12 grammar g ...
31 Views 116,447 Int
Creative Writing - The Wise Wizard

Creative Writing - The Wise Wizard

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This creative writing exercise can be used as an extra resource when teaching students about Halloween. Students are asked to create a story titled 'The Wise Wizard'. Make your story as imaginativ ...
2 Views 15,181 Elem
Creative Writing - A Spooky Night

Creative Writing - A Spooky Night

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This creative writing exercise can be used as an extra resource when teaching students about Halloween. Students are asked to create a story titled 'A Spooky Night'. Make your story as imaginative ...
4 Views 18,938 Elem
Creative Writing - My Pet Dragon

Creative Writing - My Pet Dragon

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This creative writing exercise asks students to create a story titled 'My Pet Dragon' and can be used as an extra resource when teaching students about Halloween. Make your story as imaginative as ...
4 Views 15,848 Elem
Creative Writing - Trick or Treat

Creative Writing - Trick or Treat

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This a story writing exercise and can be used as an extra resource when teaching students about Halloween. Students are asked to write a story titled Trick or treat. Encourage your students to be ...
2 Views 11,783 Elem
Creative Writing - My Favourite Halloween Costume

Creative Writing - My Favourite Halloween Costume

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This is a creative writing exercise. Students are asked to write about the best Halloween costume they've ever been in and go through the entire process of creating it and the reactions of their f ...
2 Views 13,548 Elem
Formal and Informal Emails Format for FCE and CAE

Formal and Informal Emails Format for FCE and CAE

Viviane Moraes
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I made this worksheet for my FCE and CAE students. It develops the structure of letters and emails required in these exams, and gives an organised overview of the language to be used. Page 2 is ma ...
13 Views 107,313 AdvExam
Environmental Letter of Complaint

Environmental Letter of Complaint

Rosie Dodd
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This higher level lesson is also a great follow-up to my lesson ‘A Greener School’, which you can also find on Busy Teacher. It gives students some useful language and organization fo ...
4 Views 20,649 IntAdv
My Summer Holidays

My Summer Holidays

Elena Savinova
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This writing worksheet may be used to remind your students of some summer activities such as to play football, to ride a bike, to swim, to sunbathe, to go hiking, to go camping, to go on a picnic ...
17 Views 58,134 Elem
Writing Cinquain Poems (3)

Writing Cinquain Poems (3)

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Cinquain poem: The first line is one word which is the title of the poem. The second line contains two adjectives that describe the title. The third line has three words ending in 'ing'.The fourth ...
4 Views 10,374 Elem
Writing Cinquain Poems (2)

Writing Cinquain Poems (2)

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Cinquain poem: The first line is one word which is the title of the poem. The second line contains two adjectives that describe the title. The third line has three words ending in 'ing'.The fourth ...
6 Views 10,032 Elem
Writing Cinquain Poems

Writing Cinquain Poems

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Cinquain poem: The first line is one word which is the title of the poem. The second line contains two adjectives that describe the title. The third line has three words ending in 'ing'.The fourth ...
10 Views 10,243 Elem
Movie Worksheet: Tell Me the Story of Pothound

Movie Worksheet: Tell Me the Story of Pothound

Suzanne Bhagan
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"Pothound" is a great, short film by Trinidadian filmmaker, Christopher Guinness. You can watch it here: https://vimeo.com/32823310. I used this worksheet with intermediate ESL students in a Japan ...
1 Views 10,861 Int
Adding Adjectives

Adding Adjectives

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This English resource was made for primary/elementary students. Students are asked to add a descriptive adjective to each underlined noun. This will make the sentences more interesting and is good ...
13 Views 29,725 Elem
Movie Worksheet: The Theory of Everything

Movie Worksheet: The Theory of Everything

Luis Vinueza
This worksheet helps students to  develop their listening and speaking skills, because after seeing the film they must answer several questions, and reflect in some cases. Students should tak ...
10 Views 28,911 Pre-Int

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