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This sheet uses famous characters to let your students guess the meaning of the main colours. Let them colour the pictures of Shrek, Donkey, Taz, The Pink Panther, Nemo, Sully (from Monsters Inc.) ...
This is a set of 25 flashcards for teaching or revising vocabulary words for time to the hour and half-hour at elementary level. They can also be used as conversation cards or classroom posters.
If you are good at your job as a teacher it's only natural to use the skills earned by hard work to get extra income through a similar but still a slightly different job, right? Check out our new ...
Every year I start teaching English in a different school where I have no information about what my students know. ESL books come with a very boring diagnostic test and this gives the students the ...
Class 1 English, printable worksheet for teachers and kids! This is a very fun activity for kids to color the animal alphabet, one for every letter. If your students are more interested in Movies ...
This series of slides are intended to make students aware of the mental processes involved in key word transformation exercises typical in the FCE examination. The slides work with paraphrasing an ...
This is the way I register everyday students' work. At the beginning of the academic year I give each of my students a smilie chart where they will draw a smilie face everytime they have done the ...
This is the way I register everyday students' work. At the beginning of the academic year I give each of my students a smilie chart where they will draw a smilie face everytime they have done the ...
I usually use this worksheet with my primary students and I do it the first lesson of the school year. We always talk about the rules and the consequences of breaking them when somebody does ...
This is just a progress report I devised in order to give my students that extra credit. You can use it at the end of the year or the term if there are no formal documents given at the school you ...
"Never give up on a child. There are reasons why children act up that we don't know about. You never know what a child will become." (Henry Brown III, Florida Teacher of the Year). Do you agree? L ...
There can never be enough Back to School activities, warmers, and first lesson ice-breakers. Check out our latest poster below: "The Ultimate Collection of Back to School Activities". These are th ...
This is an exam for basic vocabulary: the family, objects in the house, objects in the street and jobs. You can also find some exercises about possesive adjectives and possessives with 's; the dif ...
Name labels are a must for back to school so, here's a lovely set of name labels for young students. Perfect to motivate your students on the first day of the school year! Print, cut, laminat ...
A chart for cases of usage of all the tense forms will come in handy to all busy teachers who want to revise the essential grammar issues with their class. Students will have to make up sentences ...
This grammar worksheet is aimed at revising all the tense forms and ways to express past, present and future. It is designed for more advanced learners as they will have to apply their knowledge o ...
A new school year is almost starting and here is a great way for revising the most common verbs used in the classroom. This is a set of flashcards illustrated with pictures for easy memorizat ...
This worksheet is meant for revision classes at intermediate level. By correcting mistakes and explaining differences between various grammar forms students will learn more about simple and contin ...
This find-someone-who type of activity can be used as a warmer or filler and be suitable for any topic. It is aimed at finding out whether the statements are true or false. For that reason, studen ...
This worksheet is made to be useâ after watching the film Elf. It is a great end of the semester grammar review for intermediate (B1) students. Grammar review includes: Question word order, tag qu ...
Back to School- Mad Rush or Tons of Fun? By August, summertime will be winding down and vacations will be coming to an end, signaling that back-to-school time is near. Check out our latest infogra ...
Word categories: there are six charts so that students can fill them with the words related to school objects, animals, months, numbers, sports and means of transport. It is a good activity for th ...
This grammar worksheet will help your students revise the tense forms such as present simple, continuous and perfect, and also past simple and continuous. There are four exercises where learners w ...
This worksheet includes a profound explanation and three exercises to help students distinguish between state and action verbs. It also provides guidance on how one and the same verb can change it ...
Taken from Friends series episode 13, season 5, will come in handy to those busyteachers who want to revise different tense forms and have a good laugh as well. As a pre-watching stage students wi ...
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