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Students at all levels and ages love fairy tales. In this presentation, I included some Disney tales and some modern representations of older tales. Both students and teachers should try to find o ...
Some easy plans, explanations and topics in order for students to tackle more efficiently the Writing Part of the ECCE examination. There is an explanation of every possible essay or letter type r ...
This is a Needs Analysis Form I created to send to new private students. It helps me to know what sort of level they are at, what they find most difficult, what methodology they prefer, what mediu ...
Students will follow directions to colour the 16 flags of the countries participating in the Euro Cup 2012. This worksheet goes with the one title "Euro 2012 Part B". This can be used as a reading ...
Quick reference guide to help beginners use English to help themselves. This is to educate students to use command sentences/words to avoid translations. Includes: How do you say....? Can you repe ...
This is a set of cards for teaching or revising the structure ´How often do you...?, frequency adverbs and household chores related vocabulary. Students take it in turns to pick up a card ...
This is a set of high quality flashcards on fantasy and fairy tales related vocabulary. They can be used as conversation cards, memory games or classroom posters. Recommended for elementary stud ...
In this worksheet the student identify the different types of pollution, then identify their effects on people and on the environment. Then, answer the questions to small texts, each text dealing ...
This presentation can be used in different ways: 1. As a drill to present present perfect with recently, ever, just... 2. As prompts to practise present perfect and promote speaking production. 3 ...
This is a tool I use to help my students guide themselves through the inquiry process when undertaking personal or group inquiries. I have used it in PYP classrooms around the world from second g ...
This is a set of high quality flashcards for teaching or revising New Year related vocabulary: countdown, fireworks, midnight, party, noise makers, calendar, friends, champagne, confetti, etc. Ha ...
This a set of high quality flashcards for teaching Christmas related vocabulary: Santa Claus, reindeer, elf, ornaments, Christmas tree, carol, bulb, Christmas lights, presents and much more. They ...
Attached is a group of flashcards made from pictures off google images, its for a kindergarten quiz, I will put kids into groups and then hold up a flashcard when kids answer they get one point fo ...
Flashcards to teach kids about the internet and what you can do on the internet, a better lesson would be to do a practical class but if you can't teach them these basic words, I teach in Korea a ...
Here's a set of cards for teaching Christmas related vocabulary. Depending on your students' level they can be used in several ways such as memory games, conversation cards, oral test, group work ...
This worksheet contains cards with definitions for Flyers vocabulary items. These definitions were taken from sample tests (Reading and writing, part 1) and you can use them to play a vocabualry g ...
Here´s a set of high quality flashcards for teaching vocabulary related to winter. Each of the flashcards contains full colour illustrations and the corresponding word: snowman, snow-angels ...
Here's a set of 9 flashcards. Daily activies: sleep, have/take a shower, wash hands and face, brush teeth, do morning exercises and have breakfast. Recommended for elementary students, these cards ...
After watching the film with my students I came up with this activity when I had to teach -ing nouns. All the sentences follow the sequence of the film. I loved the film, my students loved the fil ...
Here's a set of high quality flashcards. There are 30 different jobs and occupations presented by amazing illustrations of animals. Recommended for elementary students, these cards can be used to ...
In this worksheet children will look and count the following fruit: apples, lemons, bananas, kiwis, pears and plums. If you like, you can let them colour these fruit according to what you say (ap ...
Here's a nice and fun poster featuring a famous text by Gary Provost, quoted in Roy Peter Clark’s (terrific) Writing Tools, about the melody of the English language. Please share it with you ...
Listening activity based on a video from CNN posted on YouTube about the catastrophe that happened in Japan at the beginning of the year. Great when dealing with natural catastrophes. Please, rate ...
Use these simple mouse cards for flash cards to learn prepositions or to play a fun memory matching game. Please note that the second page lists the same prepositions twice. I did this in order to ...
This is a simple but versatile draw and write template with dotted writing lines. Has been used with first graders with much success for everything from writing stories to creating written+visual ...
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