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It´s a test about daily routines, food, time and school timetables. There are easy tasks to revise and reinforce the vocabulary learnt in the unit. In the first one the students have to com ...
This is a set of 40 printable cards: 20 common English word roots and 20 definitions. They can be printed out and used as flash cards or to play a concentration-style game. Roots include: ast ...
It is a test composed of a reading text, language exercises and writing, the topic is related to family relationship as far as writing is concerned it consists of writing a letter to convince a fr ...
This worksheet will help your students to strengthen the commands learnt in your classroom. It will be useful for your students to recognize the directions given by the teacher. It contains the mo ...
This worksheet reviews some basic English grammar concepts - a/an, present simple vs. present continuous, creating questions, making negative sentences, conjugating the simple past and turning adj ...
Unit 4 test concentrates on testing of past continuous and past simple, matching the halves of the sentences according to their meaning with past simple and continuous, making questions according ...
It is a revision test for unit 2. The test concentrates on the correct use of some and any, circling the correct form of subject or object pronouns, using of present simple and continuous. From vo ...
Unit 3 test - exercises for using this and these; completing the correct form of have got, short answers with have got; is or has; short reading exercise for school subjects and days. This test is ...
This test deals with unit 6 - time prepositions in, on, at; used to; articles a, an, the and zero article, expressions for countable and uncountable nouns - few, a few, little, a little, much, man ...
It's a test for 8th graders in tunisian schools including a reading comprehension activity with multiple choice,sentence completion /gap fill/ verb tenses and a writing- all about leisure activiti ...
This is a card game in which pupils speak English, try to get as many identical pairs as they can, try to win and have fun. Meanwhile they practice asking questions and giving short answers. I mad ...
A review board game similar to the one posted for Hi Friends 1 (https://busyteacher.org/18860-elementary-hi-friends-1-boardgame.html). It's a really simple format and requires only some game piec ...
Revision test for unit 4. It deals with making questions - with the correct question words, making questions to the answers, making questions to the underlined words or phrases. Sentences with que ...
This unit test is about using the second conditional, the combination of the first and second conditional, questions with would, reflexive pronouns. From vocabulary there is an exercise for warnin ...
This test revises the present simple tense - affirmative, negative, questions, short answers, using prepositions of time - on, at, and it also deals with time telling. There is a reading and writi ...
This was made for grade 6 elementary school students in Japan using the Hi Friends 2 book. It was intended to be used by the students themselves to review the structures we've used before the fin ...
The first worsheet is about natural disaster problems listed, state one possible effect on health, property and economic cost. (If there is no effect for a particular category). The second w ...
Vocabulary Quiz that suits Arab pupils of the 9th grade and it can be used for 8th graders but with strong students. The quiz contains the words and their meaning, also it contains writing sentenc ...
This worksheet was designed as a transport activity that can be used to review places and jobs. Students should cut out the emergency vehicles and match them to the correct building (fire engine t ...
A 5 page early reader for teachers to read with young students just learning to read English. This reader features several sight words that should be reviewed before reading; look, can, you, see a ...
This set of 20 flashcards can be used when teaching students about Chinese New Year. They can be printed onto card or paper and laminated. A matching game can be played by printing off two sets of ...
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 ...
This PowerPoint introduces letter U u. The L2 learners learn some new words through pictures. All letter U in the current PowerPoint are colorful to attract the learners' attention. It's appropria ...
This PowerPoint shows some new words that starts with letter T t. It is appropriate for beginner learners of English, children between 7-12. L2 learners get familiar with this letter and learn som ...
In this worksheet you will find a handy summary of the rules of the following tenses: present simple, present progressive (continuous), past simple, past progressive (continuous) and future. These ...
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