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It is a matching activity to teach natural disasters. Students will learn the kinds of natural disasters via pictures. It is suitable for elementary and pre intermediate students. You can ask ques ...
Betting game is similar to grammar auction. Students need to decide whether the sentences are correct or wrong and bet between 10 and 100 points on each sentence. This one is designed for revising ...
This is a set of 30 ABC flashcards flashcards (26 letters plus 4 cards with letter combinations - ñh, sh, ph, th) which you can use while presenting alphabet at your lessons. There is a picture an ...
This is a set of 15 flashcards which you can use while studying Conditional (II) at your lesson. There is a picture and the task on each card. For example, if I were the President of the USA, I&rs ...
This collection of photographs helps students to produce statements using present continuous. One of my favourite activities is to show the photograph just to one student and make the rest of the ...
This is a set of four flashcards which can also be used as classroom posters for teaching the Seasons related vocabulary: summer, spring, autumn and winter. Recommended for elementary students.
Once students know first and second conditionals, students can produce more sentences using the photos as prompts. Ideas: you can show just two students the photograph and they need to mime it to ...
This is a set of 15 flashcards which you can use as a warm up activity at your lesson. There is a picture and the task on each card. For example, name 5 iffegular verbs. My students like them ve ...
This is a Power Point presentation to introduce vocabulary at the early stages of teaching the topic “Jobs and Prefessions”. It is an easy and fun way for the elementary learners to ge ...
This is a set of my new bookmarks for kids. This set consists of 3 fact files about English-speaking countries: the USA, the UK & Australia. Here your pupils can find the basic information abo ...
A set of 12 vegetable photographs with captions underneath. Can be used with captions for learning the words or remove captions for matching. Make two sets and play find the matching pairs. A m ...
This is a worksheet for beginner or elementary level. I recommend to you, first off make a warming up according to Easter and then use this worksheet, the students will color the worksheet and the ...
This is a fun way to make your students talk like they would talk in a daily life - improvising dialogues. They work in groups with different topics chosen by you or their class mates. It stimulat ...
You can practice telling time with your students. It is so easy to do it. You can also print a few copies give one to each student as a homework assignment.
Salad Vegetables Flashcards is a set of 12 photos with captions underneath. Can be used as straight flashcards, cut off captions and match with photos, print another set for find the picture pai ...
If you want your pupils to read a text about a birthday party and answer its comprehention questions, If you want to test them on vocabulary related to body parts, health and ailments, school rule ...
This is a set of high quality flashcards, which can also be used as classroom posters, for teaching or revising the weather related vocabulary: sunny, cloudy, stormy, windy, snowy, hot, cold, etc
This is a power point presentation to learn main cooking verbs, designed for those teachers who motivate their students taking cooking classes as part of daily teaching. I hope this will help col ...
You will find this way of teaching the days of the week very attractive for your students. There are 7 small cards and 7 big cards which can also be used as classroom posters.
Flashcards about animals The attached file contains small cards to teach animal vocabulary. There are different types of animals, their image and the English word - for the child to associat ...
Here's a lovely poem by Myra Cohn Livingston that we've turned into a hi-res poster - just in time for the April Fool's Day!
Simply print it out and it's guaranteed to keep your learners sm ...
This is a classroom poster which can also be used as a picture dictionary or a study sheet, for teaching or revising the weather conditions and natural disasters related vocabulary. Recommended f ...
An interesting way for children in elementary school to learn how to tell the time by the hour. I used this with my kids in school and they found it very interesting and challenging at the same ti ...
Hi!! I used this before starting with the book to check how much the students remembered. It can also be used as revision before a test. It includes matching exercises, choosing the correct option ...
Moods and Feelings pictures - you can use them in the classroom to introduce emotions. The Ss draw out one slip of paper with an emoface on it. They have to guess the emotion expressed by th ...
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