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One of the most common questions from English language learners is " Why do I have to learn English?", so here's a colourful classroom poster in which they will look at ten great reasons why Engl ...
A funny way to practice modals with this set of 20 cards. With lower level students, you can simply have them make sentences with must / don't have to {or should}, with other levels, you can add u ...
You can use Farm animals flashcards to learn beginners new vocabulary. You can play "What is missing" or ask questions like: What is it? What colour is a hen? Where is a hen? You can play charade ...
Here's a fully animated PowerPoint presentation with sentences, images and audio so young students can understand classroom related vocabulary. It can be used to teach basic vocabulary related to ...
This is an interactive boardgame for teaching school supplies related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to spin the wheel, count the number of spaces in the game and n ...
Here's our third collection of ideas on how post-it notes can help you teach. Below you will find a HI-RES Teachers' Room poster with 7 ideas on using post-its to create simple Learning Centers. ...
Here's another collection of ideas on how post-it notes can help you teach (see Part One here). Below please find a HI-RES Teachers' Room poster with 7 of them. Click the image to view the full r ...
We all love post-it notes, don't we?! Did you know that there are tons of activities you can do with them in your classroom? Well, check out 7 such activities below: we have created this HI-RES Te ...
This is a set of invented tarot cards. I use them to review simple tenses with lower levels, but I'm sure it's also perfect with more advanced students. Divide the class in pairs or groups of four ...
This game (board and situation cards) was created to revise and practice functional language: apologizing, socializing and asking for help. Originally tailored to upper-intermediate and advanced s ...
The Olympic Games have started! This is a worksheet to start talking about them and see some new vocabulary. It's about the Olympic Flag, its rings and colours and the Olympic medals. There's a co ...
This is an activity I designed for pre-teaching some vocabulary from the text "Eye Contact". The text is found in the textbook Cambridge English for Business Communication (Professional English se ...
Younger students will have fun meeting and colouring (they can paint the original colours or maybe their flag colours) the 2012 Olympic (Wenlock) and Paralympic (Mandeville) Mascots. You can also ...
This worksheet includes a warm-up speaking activity, a fill-in exercise recycling most of the verb tenses and a post-listening task where students are asked to create a happiness mind map. This s ...
This is a set of 33 high quality cards / flashcards for teaching or revising sports related vocabulary. They are excellent for vocabulary building and discussion practice! Challenge your students ...
Check out 7 new back-to-school lesson ideas, they may save you some time! Below please find our third high quality print-friendly Back To School poster. We encourage you to download and print ...
Check out 7 MORE of these simple, yet powerful back-to-school lesson ideas, and your students might remember this first lesson of yours for a long, long time! Here's our second high quality print- ...
Check out these simple, yet powerful back-to-school lesson ideas, and who knows - your students might remember this first lesson of yours for a long, long time! Here's our high quality print-frien ...
A list of useful conversational phrases used to express or ask for an opinion, agree or disagree and express doubts. Last section suggests that the students think of more topic-appropriate phrases ...
This 3rd part of ESL ideas (view other parts of the series here: part 1, part 2) features 7 more quick but powerful tips. Some of them will will definitely come in handy one day. Who knows -& ...
These 7 more most awesome ESL ideas will come in handy one day. Or maybe more than once. Who knows - you might even end up using them all with your class - one after another! Here's our second hi ...
These awesome ideas will come in handy one day. Or more than once. Who knows - you might even end up using them all with your class! This is a high quality print-friendly poster that you can down ...
This is a set of high quality flashcards for teaching or revising fruit related vocabulary: grapes, banana, orange, apple, pear, pineapple, cherries, kiwi, lemon, orange, etc. They can also be use ...
This is a picture dictionary which can also b4 used as a classroom poster or a study sheet for teaching or revising international food related vocabulary: Chinese food, Greek food, Italian food, J ...
A great game for teaching phonics to ESL students. I printed two sets, cut them out and laminated the game pieces to make them a little more durable. I play this game when teaching vowel sounds ...
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