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Movie worksheet : EYE OF THE BEHOLDER.
Pupils will have a great time watching the movie and answering the different questions.
Questions include :
1- Match the following Characters with their d ...
To revise the past simple. Draw a noughts and crosses grid on the board. Write the present tense of a verb in each grid space, for example see, go, meet, have, play, visit, eat, read and do. Divid ...
• To revise prepositions and there is/are. • Draw two empty rooms, with a table in the middle of each. Label these pictures ‘A’ and ‘B’. Make a photocopy for eac ...
• To revise the past simple tense.
• Ask pupils to choose their favourite part of the story they have read recently, and a part they didn’t like.
Write on the board:
I like ...
It's a general revision of tenses (simple present / present progressive / simple past / past progressive / future) and prepositions.
Tasks include:
1- Classify the following words and expression ...
It's a general review of pronunciation for elementary students. Tasks include : which of the given words include the given sounds? Which words are represented by the phonetic transcription? Classi ...
Experiment with how you write on the board, altering your writing style, the size of the letters, the direction you write, and the color of the chalk/pens.
This pack contains three sets. 1. Wonderful World Listening (based on a song ‘Wonderful World’ by The Flying Pickets) 2. Summer Holiday / Identity Show game (students should tell about ...
Call on a student to draw his or her country's flag on the board, then teach him or her how to describe the flag to the class (It has three stripes...).
This is a simple 'cut out, color and glue' project with some short reading piece on the origin of the Columbus Day for kids. The learners will create the first ship (the Santa Maria). We suggest t ...
Even though there is not much learning that can be achived with this fun Thanksgiving page, but you may still want to use it for your after-Thanksgiving lesson - ask your young learners to fill in ...
Great for fluency. Students work in small groups and talk for 30 sec or a minute about a topic such as what they did last night/weekend, their plans for the next week, their hobbies, etc.
However ...
Give students a reward (such as a candy or a sticker) each time they take the artificial language in your textbook and turn it into an authentic question or comment about someone in the class.
This is a warm-up activity appropriate for your first lesson with secondary students, especially if you meet the class for the first time. But it works with students you already know. It can be us ...
Ask the pupils to help Sara find the correct way to reach the goal (be a scientist). Please note that there isn't a unique specified solution, so each of them should read his/her own path aloud. D ...
This is in fact a simplified version of a longer activity my students love (which I'm also explaining in the worksheet). In fact you can use it as a warm up before any lesson, and it works especia ...
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