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Creative Writing - Invisibility Potion

Creative Writing - Invisibility Potion

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Invisibility potion - picture prompt. This is a creative writing activity for elementary/primary students. They must look at the picture and think of a creative story to go along with it, then wri ...
6 Views 15,181 Elem
Creative Writing - Autumn Walk

Creative Writing - Autumn Walk

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Autumn Walk - Picture prompt. This is a creative writing activity for elementary/primary students. They must look at the picture and think of a creative story to go along with it, then write their ...
3 Views 10,188 Elem
Coherence and Cohesion Activity Sheet

Coherence and Cohesion Activity Sheet

The exercises present scrambbled sentences to work on text unity and connection of ideas plus work on pronoun consistency and conjunctions. The activities were thought to be worked on after the pr ...
11 Views 82,496 Pre-IntInt
Happiness

Happiness

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What is happiness? We all are in pursue of it. Does money bring happiness? In this presentation, which was initially designed for interactive boards, we tried to find answers with our students. We ...
33 Views 31,416 Pre-IntIntAdvExam
Noodle Battle - Teaching Composition

Noodle Battle - Teaching Composition

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This worksheet is based on the cartoon serial ‘Minuscules’. The cartoon serial ‘Minuscules’ (France, 2007) which is the collection of 3-5 minute mini-stories. The dynamic ...
4 Views 11,062 Adv
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Twitter Worksheet

Twitter Worksheet

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You can use this twitter worksheet for many subjets. You just need to add the hashtag and write a phrase e.g #when_i_was_a_child the students need to complete the hashtag with the suitable grammar ...
7 Views 12,122 ElemPre-IntInt
Beauty vs Intelligence

Beauty vs Intelligence

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An all time classic. Clever or beautiful? Both would be the answer. But deep down most people would choose beauty as it is self proven and intelligence has to be proved, as Oscar Wilde said. Can' ...
15 Views 21,103 Pre-IntIntAdvExam
Monster High- Present Perfect Writing Prompt

Monster High- Present Perfect Writing Prompt

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This is a simple writing prompt for children to practice present perfect. They are asked to write what Catty Noir (a charcter from this cartoon) has done and has never done in her life. Imho it's ...
4 Views 14,833 ElemPre-Int
Planning a Perfect School Trip

Planning a Perfect School Trip

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I use this task to help my students practise creative writing integrating the use of 'be going to'. They need to imagine they're going on a perfect school trip, brainstorm ideas and write a ...
5 Views 14,808 ElemPre-Int
Everything You Throw Away Comes Back (Creative/Free Writing Prompt)

Everything You Throw Away Comes Back (Creative/Free Writing Prompt)

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"Everything you throw away comes back" was originally an environmental social ad that I used for free writing with my ss. But some of them started to speak beyond throwing away trash but also abou ...
8 Views 10,966 Pre-IntIntAdvExam
Let Us Imagine

Let Us Imagine

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Boosting the speaking and writing skills of pre-intermediate learners by means of comic created online and a strip story. The learners are invited to brainstorm in pairs ideas about the first cart ...
7 Views 18,559 ElemPre-IntIntAdv
Valentine's Day - Writing a Narrative

Valentine's Day - Writing a Narrative

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This exercise is for ESL beginners. Starting from a comic strip about Valentine's Day, the students must write a short narrative in the present simple tense. You might want to first go over the ...
9 Views 19,331 Elem
Romulus and Remus - Narrative Writing Activity

Romulus and Remus - Narrative Writing Activity

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Starting from a dialogue relating the story of Romulus and Remus, your students will be asked to write a simple narrative in the present tenses, based on pictures. This ESL activity was done in re ...
2 Views 14,415 Elem
Creating a Fun Group Story

Creating a Fun Group Story

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This has been one of my favorite activities since childhood. A group of ss work in a group to create one story. But each time a student writes something, he/she folds the paper so that the others ...
12 Views 22,672 ElemPre-Int
Agony Aunt Letters and Giving Advice

Agony Aunt Letters and Giving Advice

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In this activitity there are 14 letters of desperate people looking for advice. They have written to Agony Aunt Anne and are waiting for an answer .Can you help them? Use any suitable modal verb. ...
19 Views 151,091 Pre-Int
Stories in the Past

Stories in the Past

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I use this worksheet to help my students practise telling stories in the past. They have to imagine that something quite unusual has happened to them (they've met a ghost/an alien; won a lottery e ...
12 Views 26,775 ElemPre-Int
Venn Diagram

Venn Diagram

This is Venn diagram which can be used with students of any level for comparing and contrasting any topic. For example, I used it to compare and contast lifestyle in New York and London. This diag ...
6 Views 9,293 All
Research Topic - Chinese New Year

Research Topic - Chinese New Year

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This worksheet asks students to find out some information about the 12 animals that make up the Chinese zodiac. This can be used as an extra resource when teaching children about the Chinese New Y ...
4 Views 19,965 Elem
Chinese New Year - Story Starter (Year of the Pig)

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

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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 ...
3 Views 7,586 Elem
Chinese New Year - Story Starter (Year of the Dog)

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

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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 ...
3 Views 8,165 Elem
Chinese New Year - Story Starter (Year of the Rooster)

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

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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 ...
3 Views 7,226 Elem
Chinese New Year - Story Starter (Year of the Monkey)

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

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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 5,375 Elem
Chinese New Year - Story Starter (Year of the Goat)

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

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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 6,178 Elem
Chinese New Year - Story Starter (Year of the Horse)

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

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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 ...
3 Views 6,427 Elem
Chinese New Year - Story Starter (Year of the Snake)

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

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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 4,447 Elem

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