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This can be used to track your students' monthly attendance. Since I give points for attendance, this quickly gives me an overview of my students' monthly attendance. Easy to see if they are prese ...
Flashcards about nationalities. A simple worksheet about the topic: Nationalities. It can be used for a speaking activity to practice questions and answers about people's nationalities. The teache ...
This is a set of speaking cards to get your students to talk about themselves and to help them to develop their communication skills. These cards can be used as a pair work or group activity, the ...
This is a 3-page document where you will find some flash cards related to daily routines ready to be printed out. It is supposed to help your ESL students practice the present simple tense by reco ...
Color it! Who says that coloring only appeals to kids? Not at all. Believe it or not, big guys in my class enjoyed doing it while trying to master their grammar lesson on adverbs of frequency. ...
This is a set of flashcards for teaching or revising the weather related vocabulary at elementary level. They can also be used as classroom posters or for playing games.
I've already used all these activities to teach English either as a second language or as a foreign language and it works great! They are mainly activities to get to know each other. Especially if ...
This is a craft designed for very young learners. They can colour the sky, and then cut out the clouds and glue them onto the sky. The worksheet may also be used to practise colours if pupils are ...
Students first translate and make flashcards for 25 verbs from the song. Then they listen to the song and fill in the verbs. Then groups are given a shorter passage from the song, they work toge ...
A Power point presentation contraining only one slide. It is useful for kindergarden and primary school students. A simple Mother's day poem in a heart for children to colour. Of course, after co ...
This is a set of flashcards for teaching or revising Saint Patrick's Day related vocabulary. They are easily adaptable to any level or age and they can also be used as conversation cards, or class ...
General revision of Tree Tops 3 (OUP) : Personal questions: What's your name? Where are you from? How old are you? Do you like rice? / What's this? How many?, dialogue completion for shopping ...
An integrated activity between English and technlogy for secondary students in their sencond year. They have to watch the film first, half of it in the english class and the rest in th echnology ...
Worksheet for level A1, beginners, esp. younger kids that can write colors and clothes words. Created to revise how to write the names of different clothes and the names of different colors in E ...
This sheet gives students information needed to help them make an emergency phone call for fire, police and ambulance. It also helps students understand the difference between an emergency and non ...
Write "WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE" on the blackboard. Explain to the students that you are looking for two very strange twins. On a piece of paper hand draw two funny looking brothers very different one ...
This activity is well known for everyone, it is Taboo Game, but I've decided to add some pictures to enhance the game. I think this way the activity becomes much better, because with some pictures ...
This power point presentation was made for adult students. The objective of it is to discuss the food that they like and talk about some international dishes. It can be used with beginners to pre ...
Suitable for online or classroom teaching, it is a how-to for teachers whose objective is to consolidate grammar terms and get students to creatively use the language. For revision purposes elicit ...
This is aimed at beginner and elementary children aged between 3-8 years old ideally. This can be used as a fun worksheet to introduce new valentine's day vocabulary and practice writing, or it ca ...
This is a colours worksheet. Students must colour the balloons accordig to the words writtennext to them. It can be a revision activity or a test to check if students know colours. Apart from comm ...
Cards are the good and convenient additional material for training of pupils of younger school age or children of kindergarden age. Letter naming is a strong predictor of later reading succes ...
I have recently given this activity to my students who are in my conversation class. They work in pairs with a set of cut out alphabets folded where student A will have to pick an alphabet fo ...
In this presentation you will find some flash cards for feelings. The whole matter is that "the more senses your child can use, the better understanding they can get". So in this presentation chil ...
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