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Here's one more set of 27 flashcards on Irregular verbs. You can find the first set here. How you can use these irregular verbs flashcards: - Cut out and laminate each card. - Put your stude ...
Students should try to provide as many different excuses as possible to explain why the person calling them cannot speak to the person s/he wants to. Example: "He is having dinner" or "She is walk ...
This is a 3-page Worksheet including a Grammar guide and several exercises to learn the imperative and Classroom instructions. tasks included: 1- Match the classroom instructions in the box wi ...
This is a highly competitive warmer that will get your learners energized. Hand a bunch of magazines to your students. One per small group should be fine, but if you only have a few students, one ...
Students work in pairs or small groups, making different noises with their mouth - the partner or the rest of the group should guess what this person is doing. 'You are yawning!' 'You are kissing ...
This is a set of cards to stimulate conversation among students. The topic is focused on " Sports" containing several questions such as: what´s your favourite sport?; Do you like playing &h ...
This is a warmer or filler. You need two markers of different colors and a board to write on. Divide students into two groups and name them according to the colors of the markers (“blue gr ...
It is a power point about basic vocabulary.
It has 11 slides. It's basically a list of different expressions students may need when they want to communicte such as:
What can you do when you ...
The worksheet contains beautiful and funny pictures and words about fruit and vegetables. They can be used as flashcards in your classroom, especially suitable for children and young learners. You ...
A funny alphabet for 4 - 7 year olds. It can be used as flashcards and you can teach pronunciation with any of the typical songs of the alphabet. It can be used as a poster for th ...
A set of 15 cards / flashcards to teach the most common phrasal verbs with "out" which can be used for different classroom activities such as games or conversation cards. I personally use these c ...
A set of 16 Colorful Flashcards that will help the students to learn some vocabulary such as banana, plum, melon, watermelon, pineapple, kiwi, coconut, grapes, tangerine, apricot, avocado, etc. ...
A set of 20 flash cards on Verbs. Depending on your students' level they can be used in several ways such as memory games, conversation cards, oral test, group work, classroom posters, etc What ...
A set of 27 cards on Irregular Verbs. Depending on your students' level they can be used in several ways such as memory games, conversation cards, oral test, group work, etc… What to do w ...
A set of 40 flash cards on clothes, footwear and accessories. Depending on your students' level they can be used in several ways such as memory games, conversation cards, oral test, group work, c ...
The Earth Day is on 22 April, and this worksheet will come in handy for this special lesson. There are three pages of Earth Day graphics (coloring cards that can be used as a mini-book), and the l ...
A set of 14 cards for food / fruit vocabulary which can be used for teaching new words, memory games, conversation cards, oral test, group work, classroom posters, etc.
This nice spring mini-project is something your learners can do in class or as a homework assignment - it's simple and fun. They color and fold the card along the dotted lines to make a beautiful ...
I have a 'vocabulary' envelope. Each important vocabulary word that I teach goes into the envelope and when I need a warmer or a filler, I have the students pick a word out. They then have to make ...
This is a set of means of transports flashcards which can be used for teaching new words, memory games, conversation cards, oral test, group work, classroom posters, etc.
It is a filler my students like a lot.
You take a deck of small cards and write questions on them (different types and topics depending on the students' level). Then ask the student(s) to take ...
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