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Put about ten flashcards (face up) on the ground or on the table. Describe one of the flashcards and let the students guess the correct card. It's a very good game to improve the students listenin ...
This collection contains 7 Valentine's Day activities (coloring pages). Most of the coloring pages have a short instruction on what your students need to color and how they should do this.
We hop ...
This is a cute Valentine's Day coloring page kindly provided by Crayola. It is a black and white image of 2 squirrels - one is handing the other a Valentine's gift.
I am sure your learners will lo ...
Distribute some flashcards facing up. Call out the name of any of the flashcards. The student who touches the card first gets a point. Please be careful: this can get very competitive! Great for r ...
Here's a collection of 13 Chinese New year coloring pages that can also be used as flashcards. You'll find cards for the symbols of the Chinese calendar. A quick and simple instructions on finding ...
Start the class off with a sentence, for example - 'I lost my wallet at the shops but fortunately ...'. Then point to a student to finish the sentence. Then continue: 'But unfortunately ...' (get ...
Here's a grand Valentine's Day Coloring Sheets collection of 88 (!) coloring worksheets for this romantic holiday lesson. Your young learners will loooove them - the coloring sheets are super-cute ...
It's a good opportunity to use it in the classroom and to talk about the rules, especially at the beginning of the school year. Children can colour it and place it in the wall. It is one of the fi ...
It's a worksheet about numbers from 1 to 5 Look, count and colour! Pupils can learn the words of the animals, objects. Then they count the dots on the square and then say the number, they write it ...
It's a warm-up activity which will undoubtedly wake your students up! I use it very often and in always engage students and makes them ask for the next round. This activity is open to your creativ ...
Pictures with names to learn the first words related to weather. Match the cards with the pictures. Mini-dialogues: What's weather like today? Today it's ...
Questions and answers: Is sunny today ...
A teacher uses this worksheet in kids classes. The task is to find Christmas objects and to colour them. Then children have to name all objects by themselves after they have done colouring. You wi ...
This is a perfect set of coloring pages for Christmas - it contains 3 high-quality Christmas sheets with Hallmark's famous characters: Hoops and Yoyo. We are sure your young learners will find the ...
This is a set of around 50 cards that can be used for any food-related board game or as small :) flashcards. Also, you can try using these food cards one of these ways:
• Let students selec ...
Though designed primarily for parents, this should also be useful for us, English teachers. This worksheet was kindly provided by MyPyramid.gov, US Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion. You ...
These two top-quality coloring pages will keep your kids occupied for hours! They will love coloring Santa, his reindeer, or the elf with presents.
These great coloring sheets were kindly p ...
Three high-quality coloring pages for the Chanukah special holiday lesson with your learners. Can also be given as home assignment a few days in advance, to create the mood for the lesson. Your ki ...
These flashcards can be used for learning English vowel sounds. It is better to cut them out by one piece. For individual lessons the tasks can be: listen and repeat, name the sound, find pairs (s ...
These flashcards can be used for learning sounds of English. It is better to cut out them by one piece. The tasks can be the following: listen and repeat, name the sound, find pairs of voiced and ...
This ice-breaker is suggested for the first class of the course. You need a yarn of thread. All students have to stand up and make a circle. The instructions are to hold the thread of the yarn and ...
Create a number of instruction cards along the following lines: the word must be a past tense form, the word mustn't have more than one syllable, it must be something you can find in a supermarket ...
Just take a small ball and throw it to a pupil. Ask him or her to catch it saying "catch the ball". Then once he or she has it they can start talking about themselves -if it's for very beginning ...
Here's a nice collection for an amazing Thanksgiving lesson: 25 big and bright Thanksgiving images that can be also used as flashcards. Print them out full size and decorate your classroom to cele ...
This worksheet contains 135 sentences which you have to rewrite using all these varied grammatical structures that our students preparing their B1 exams have to master. It's a typical USE OF ENG ...
98 sentences to rephrase using a varies range of structures. Suitable for students preparing their B1 exams. You can find conditional clauses, reported speech, wh - questions, linkers and conjunct ...
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