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This worksheet allows children to practise the alphabet, numbers, colours and even vocabulary words. Give children clear instructions so they colour the squares you mention (ie, A5-red, D2-yellow. ...
A grammar chart sheet to study modal verbs should(not) have/ought to have; didn't need to/needn't have. This is a very good WS to review the meanings and possible results of past modals of critici ...
In this worksheets kids will be able to work with vocabulary. The objective is that they can recognize sea animals. As I had worked with farm animals before, I thought it was a good idea to also p ...
This is a worksheet to work with kids ages 4 and 5. They have to match the corresponding sea animal with the right number. Then you can work with a dictation and put into practice numbers and colo ...
This is a very simple activity where children can color, cut and fold two images (sun, cloud raining). Once this craft is ready, they'll be able to hide the sun behind a cloud. The idea is to crea ...
I'm working with the book "Little Bugs 1", I created this worksheet for students to recognize toys studied previously. There are two activities, in the first one, students need to circle the toy d ...
Wouldn’t it be nice to see just how much your students are imaginative and creative? These photos can be used to provoke critical thinking. Pre-intermediate students can practise past tenses ...
Students are often puzzled when they have to distinguish tenses in English. Since there are three present tenses, it can be difficult for them to know when each of them is used. This worksheet pro ...
This worksheet contains three simple activities for kids, where they can relate to the season Autumn. First, a coloring and handwriting activity; second, a coloring activity where they have to rec ...
A simple and short activity to introduce classroom language at the beginning of the year. At the beginning of the year I wanted my students to be introduced to the classroom language I expected th ...
This is a set of high-quality flashcards for teaching summer related vocabulary. Each card contains illustrations and the corresponding words/expressions for easy memorization. Recommended for e ...
Baby animals and farm animals, comparison of baby animals and adult animals. Nice and colourful flashcards showing some characters from cartoon, like garfield and donald duck. Kids really enjoy ma ...
Especially for kids, this game makes them acquire classroom language and there are many ways in which they can play. What I did was giving them a dice and they had to perform the action as well as ...
This is a two-page worksheet dealing with verbs that students often find confusing and therefore misuse them. You can let your students complete the sentences with appropriate verbs individually o ...
This worksheet provides cliparts so that students can practise modal verbs of obligation (must- musn't - can't) in the classroom. They can stick it on a cardboard and write the rules. Then they ca ...
I created this powerpoint for my 5th grade students. They are in their second year of learning English. This was originally a lesson required by the Ministry but I spiced things up a bit with cute ...
This is a worksheet I have prepared for my students. It includes: Complete with the words from the box Answers the questions Revision of have and has got Match the two halves Make the questions ...
Here you'll find a list of elementary computer lab rules. You can use it at the beginning of the course so that every student have clear ideas of how they are supposed to behave when they use the ...
Teacher discusses various topics in the class, the children will talk about people, places & things.
Some of the suggested topics are:
a. Your best friends b. People in your family c. Citie ...
Students should be able to identify the name of an animal or bird written on the card and imitate a typical movement of or sound made by that animal or bird so that others can identify the animal ...
Happy dollars are a way of stimulating participation in the classroom. You can create your own bills using students' pics or simply make a chart, adding up the values. For each nice thing done in ...
This PowerPoint presentation could be rather useful while practicing vocabulary. It includes definitions and colorful pictures of some natural disasters and a word search box to check. The presen ...
This is a fruit memory game. The students are supposed to paint the fruits and write their names on the small pieces of paper. After that, they can cut the pieces and glue them on a thicker kind o ...
Fruit Vocabulary worksheet. This worksheet can be used as one page of a Picture Dictionary made by the students. Students can write the names of the fruits and color them. All extra pages (such as ...
Colourful and funny numbers (1-10) with their writings under it. This can be used with children to present them numbers. Each number is a character, so it can be used as flashcards or in games (u ...
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