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Nationalities - Dialogue Practice

Nationalities - Dialogue Practice

Cristiane Fabocci
•, , Adult Learners,
Here you can find different nationalities and names. For each nationality, you have two different names. How to use it: 1. if you have a big group you can give them different cards and they have ...
1 Views 34,950 BegElemPre-Int
Word Crimes: Listening Comprehension

Word Crimes: Listening Comprehension

Anna-Lena Gérard
•Adult Learners,
I created this short listening activity for advanced learners. The topic is different from other listenings, since it is dealing with language itself. Further on, you cna discuss with your student ...
1 Views 11,941 AdvExam
Phubbing or Phone Addiction (Article and Activities)

Phubbing or Phone Addiction (Article and Activities)

chocolate addict
You will find activities linked to phubbing (phone + snubbing), which is the practise of snubbing someone, using your phone.   It starts with questions to get the students to speak, then a ...
1 Views 17,851 IntAdv
Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Judy Garland)

Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Judy Garland)

Marie Devátá
Worksheet based on Judy Garland's song "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" from the movie The Wizard of Oz. Song is slow and it's easy to catch the missing words. The first letters of the words have been ...
1 Views 14,323 BegElem
Oprah Winfrey Golden Globes Cecil B. DeMille Award Acceptance Speech

Oprah Winfrey Golden Globes Cecil B. DeMille Award Acceptance Speech

Angie Kokolaki
•Adult Learners, , ,
Oprah Winfrey received the Cecil B. de Mille Award at the 2018 Golden Globes and gave an amazing acceptance speech. You can watch it via YouTube. [youtube=http://www.youtube=http://www.youtube.co ...
9 Views 12,875 Pre-IntInt
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Native Spanish Speakers: Big Numbers, Ordinal Numbers, Plurals, Forming Questions, Prepositions, Reflexive Pronouns

Native Spanish Speakers: Big Numbers, Ordinal Numbers, Plurals, Forming Questions, Prepositions, Reflexive Pronouns

Michael Patrick
This is an exercise designed for native Spanish speakers as is evident in the translation section. Don't underestimate the importance of numbers in your lesson planning. Many of the plurals are ...
3 Views 19,593 Pre-IntInt
Is Coffee Good For You?

Is Coffee Good For You?

This activity is a discussion based on youtube videos about the effects of drinking coffee. The students firts will talk about the issue after watching the video in class and for homework they wi ...
4 Views 31,405 IntAdv
Common Phrases and Colors with some Spanish Translations

Common Phrases and Colors with some Spanish Translations

Michael Patrick
These exercises were designed with native Spanish speakers in mind covering some basic common phrases. It also covers some basic sentence writing using colors. Everything should be said out loud ...
5 Views 12,496 Pre-IntInt
Emergency Services Role Play Cards

Emergency Services Role Play Cards

SI
These role play cards are designed for elementary to pre-intermediate learners. There are 6 different scenarios split between the police, ambulance and fire service. Students work in pairs to prep ...
5 Views 127,211 ElemPre-Int
Teaching Gerunds Through Creative Writing

Teaching Gerunds Through Creative Writing

Michael Patrick
Lesson 7 in this 24 part series of exercises is almost all about gerunds which are very common in everyday usage and these different exercises will show your students just how much. I've also snu ...
7 Views 38,810 Pre-IntInt
Reading about Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Reading about Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Mark Pallister
•, Adult Learners
This intermediate worksheet is really useful and can be edited to fit the learning needs of the student. The topic can be simply introduced by asking the student to count and name the countries on ...
1 Views 6,114 Int
Sellng Odd Items

Sellng Odd Items

Cris
This worksheet is intended for students to work on improvisation when they need to prepare a pitch or speech to sell an item. It can turn out to be very funny as the items in this activity are un ...
6 Views 19,845 Pre-IntIntAdv
Power, Bench, and Machine Tools

Power, Bench, and Machine Tools

•Adult Learners,
This worksheet was made for college students studying woodworking technology. Later it was successfully used in teaching students of other technical professions. The worksheet consists of some lex ...
4 Views 15,406 ElemPre-Int
Making Sentences in English (Present Simple)

Making Sentences in English (Present Simple)

S.I.
This document is a summary sheet of English tenses, the basic sentence structure and subject pronouns. I use this as an introduction to basic grammar knowledge for complete beginners. The main foc ...
9 Views 34,929 Beg
Movie Worksheet: 13 Reasons Why

Movie Worksheet: 13 Reasons Why

Sergio Ramone
A 3-level quizz about the Netflix TV Series '13 Reasons Why', episode 1. After watching the episode, students can work in pairs or groups, depending on the number of them. Teacher hands out the sh ...
7 Views 29,690 ElemIntAdv
Song Worksheet: Who by Pink

Song Worksheet: Who by Pink

A.E
Listening activity which may be used as a warm-up or a follow-up activity to practice the simple past tense. Students listen to the song and try to write the correct forms of the verbs in the blan ...
7 Views 39,047 ElemPre-Int
Song Worksheet: These Boots Were Made for Walking

Song Worksheet: These Boots Were Made for Walking

BusyTeacher Contributor
This is a listening song worksheet. Your students will hear how people sound when they speak English through a song. There is a list of the special contractions and uniquely pronounced words at ...
5 Views 24,006 BegElemPre-IntInt
The Barber's Pole - High Level Gap Fill

The Barber's Pole - High Level Gap Fill

Celia Jenkins
This worksheet is a reading activity for high level learners with an excellent grasp of the English language. Students must read the paragraphs and fill the gaps using the word key at the bottom o ...
4 Views 21,718 Adv
Helping People- Charity Events

Helping People- Charity Events

Tajana
This worksheet contains four stories, students must choose one story and decide who of the four people they are going to help and then decide how they are going to help them to organize a charity ...
12 Views 76,279 IntAdv
Using For and Since (Including Exceptions)

Using For and Since (Including Exceptions)

Bonny Buckley
Do you cringe when you hear students misuse "for" and "since" when they are speaking? This is one page of examples and exceptions with a description of how to use these important everyday words. Y ...
7 Views 22,933 IntAdv
Writing IV - Writing about Your City

Writing IV - Writing about Your City

Ursula Viessa
Writing is always a tough task regardless of the language. When it comes to English, it is worse, because students don't usually write in their native language (in my case, Portuguese from Brazil) ...
5 Views 49,089 Pre-Int
Writing III - Descriptive Writing

Writing III - Descriptive Writing

Ursula Viessa
•Adult Learners,
Writing is always a tough task regardless of the language. When it comes to English, it is worse, because students don't usually write in their native language (in my case, Portuguese from Brazil) ...
7 Views 37,362 Pre-Int
Writing II - Writing Based on a Model

Writing II - Writing Based on a Model

Ursula Viessa
•Adult Learners,
Writing is always a tough task regardless of the language. When it comes to English, it is worse, because students don't usually write in their native language (in my case, Portuguese from Brazil) ...
3 Views 27,973 Pre-Int
Movie Worksheet: Antony Bourdain in Istanbul

Movie Worksheet: Antony Bourdain in Istanbul

Christine Loconti
Watch this video of Anthony Bourdain touring Istanbul and students have to answer questions as they watch. Goes great with a unit on travels, food or culture as the video explores monuments and p ...
7 Views 20,141 IntAdvExam
Movie Worksheet: 5 Ways to Listen Better (TedTalk)

Movie Worksheet: 5 Ways to Listen Better (TedTalk)

Dearbhla Cooper
•Adult Learners,
This is for advanced or exam level students but can be used for intermediate with a bit of scaffolding. Focusing on working with synonyms and listening skills. The full transcript is available at ...
3 Views 18,019 IntAdvExam

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