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Creative Writing Exercise - Chinese New Year (Year of the Rooster)

Creative Writing Exercise - Chinese New Year (Year of the Rooster)

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The Chinese Year of the Rooster is the tenth in the 12 year cycle. Students are asked to look at the picture and write a creative story to go along with it. This activity could help lead into a Ch ...
4 Views 7,823 Elem
Creative Writing Exercise - Chinese New Year (Year of the Dog)

Creative Writing Exercise - Chinese New Year (Year of the Dog)

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The Chinese Year of the Dog is the eleventh in the 12 year cycle. Students are asked to look at the picture and write a creative story to go along with it. This activity could help lead into a Chi ...
4 Views 7,896 Elem
Creative Writing Exercise - Chinese New Year (Year of the Pig)

Creative Writing Exercise - Chinese New Year (Year of the Pig)

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The Chinese Year of the Pig is the twelfth in the 12 year cycle. Students are asked to look at the picture and write a creative story to go along with it. This activity could help lead into a Chin ...
3 Views 7,448 Elem
Writing Practice- My Favourite Puppet

Writing Practice- My Favourite Puppet

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This worksheet is meant to practice writing skills. Teachers may ask students to make a puppet using craft or simply ask students to talk about a puppet they might have at home. The worksheet cons ...
2 Views 7,781 Elem
First Certificate Essay Prompts

First Certificate Essay Prompts

Viviane Moraes
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Collection of 6 different types of essay prompts for FCE following the 2015 model. Some prompts are more difficult than others, and I recommend teachers to change it according to the class / stude ...
5 Views 29,754 IntAdvExam
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Formal Email Writing

Formal Email Writing

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This handout's purpose is to provide writers with formal phrases, in order to be able to write formal emails. This could be both given to teenagers to practice their writing, but also to busi ...
15 Views 134,754 Exam
Song Worksheet: Elastic Heart by Sia

Song Worksheet: Elastic Heart by Sia

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Activities for the video /song 'Elastic heart'. It mainly contains vocabulary activities and a final writing activity. You could add more activities in order to debate the content,message,etc. The ...
3 Views 12,040 ElemPre-Int
Vocabulary and Grammar Test - Present Simple

Vocabulary and Grammar Test - Present Simple

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This is a test for vocabulary and grammar. There is present simple, possessive pronouns and wh- questions exercises. I've prepared this test for my students and it encompasses all the vocabulary a ...
12 Views 24,236 Elem
Write Your Story

Write Your Story

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This worksheet contains an activity in which language learners are asked to write their own murder story using some words and numbers. It is appropriate for elementary and pre-intermediate levels. ...
5 Views 14,449 ElemPre-Int
Research Activity - Canada Goose

Research Activity - Canada Goose

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Celebrate National Bird Day with our bird theme worksheets. This worksheet asks students to write a short report about Canada geese. There are also questions for students to answer. They must incl ...
5 Views 7,529 Elem
Research Activity - Nightingale

Research Activity - Nightingale

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Celebrate National Bird Day with our bird theme worksheets. This worksheet asks students to write a short report about nightingales. There are also questions for students to answer. They must incl ...
3 Views 6,106 Elem
Research Activity - Robin

Research Activity - Robin

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Celebrate National Bird Day with our bird theme worksheets. This worksheet asks students to write a short report about robins. There are also questions for students to answer. They must include th ...
3 Views 5,715 Elem
Research Activity - Blackbird

Research Activity - Blackbird

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Celebrate National Bird Day with our bird theme worksheets. This worksheet asks students to write a short report about blackbirds. There are also questions for students to answer. They must includ ...
2 Views 6,123 Elem
Research Activity - Mallard Ducks

Research Activity - Mallard Ducks

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Celebrate National Bird Day with our bird theme worksheets. This worksheet asks students to write a short report about mallard ducks. There are also questions for students to answer. They must inc ...
2 Views 5,192 Elem
Research Activity - Barn Owl

Research Activity - Barn Owl

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Celebrate National Bird Day with our bird theme worksheets. This worksheet asks students to write a short report about barn owls. There are also questions for students to answer. They must include ...
2 Views 6,638 Elem
The Brave: Merida Composition Worksheet

The Brave: Merida Composition Worksheet

A post-watching composition worksheet, inluding the following grammar topics: pronouns, can/can't, 3d person singular endings. Vocabulary includes action verbs, person description, animals, relati ...
2 Views 13,497 Elem
Why is the Gorilla in Trouble; Paragraph Writing

Why is the Gorilla in Trouble; Paragraph Writing

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This PowerPoint will help you to teach the steps to write a simple paragraph. It provides a sample for the language learners, about why is the gorilla in trouble, and it follows with a homework as ...
6 Views 7,708 Elem
Writing a Blog Post

Writing a Blog Post

This worksheets will help you to practice the present continuous tense. Students should write a blog using the information about different festivals (Chinese New Year, Holi and Up Helly Aa Fire Fe ...
5 Views 16,316 ElemPre-Int
Co-write a Story

Co-write a Story

Creative Writing Prompts,
A worksheet to encourage story writing as a class/group activity. It can also be used as a speaking exercise for story-telling. Each box contains a set of vocabulary and students must create a sto ...
14 Views 32,166 ElemPre-IntIntAdv
Game: Stop

Game: Stop

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This game is appropriate for all levels, but absolute beginners. There are some items; name, fruit, animal, etc. The teacher says a letter, like "M", then all students would try to write words tha ...
6 Views 23,459 ElemPre-IntIntAdv
My Favourite Superhero

My Favourite Superhero

This worksheet focuses on the revision of the following grammar points: can/can't, like+ing,  dislike+ing, degrees of ability, imperative, free-time activities, why/b ...
9 Views 26,282 Elem
Kidnapped - Lesson Plan

Kidnapped - Lesson Plan

Full lesson plan for intermediate level, but could be used for advanced levels as well. Lesson is orientated around the ability to give excuses (imaginitive ones!).Poetry - past tense - compound ...
13 Views 22,588 IntAdv
The Party

The Party

Rania Foka
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The worksheet is reading fun with well-known characters from fairy tales to motivate young learners.There are also some illustrations of the characters. Little Red Riding Hood held a party but Sn ...
3 Views 11,075 Elem
Writing, Speaking and Pronunciation

Writing, Speaking and Pronunciation

Carmen
This is a worksheet for elementary level students (specially to kid audience). The task is explained inside the document attached for more references on how to do the exercise. There are 6 rows wi ...
7 Views 33,236 Elem
Writing a Story - Outline

Writing a Story - Outline

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It simply gives some basic instructions on what language to put in a story and how to organise the text itself. It's for writing practice. I designed it for further practice in a classroom, though ...
5 Views 16,450 IntAdv

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