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This is a short collection of the songs that I used (at least was going to use). There are two pages for each song. The first one is teacher's notes. The second is a worksheet for students. I'm no ...
This worksheet can help elementary students develop communication skills. This is for class work. Students can move around the class and ask as many students as they can about others' personal inf ...
Printable worksheet with colour flashcards to practice the vocabulary about winter clothes.
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<p>Flashcards to teach clothes in different kind of weather.</p> <p>Visit our Weather worksheets category to download more free weather flashcards.</p>
Download this terrific collection of interactive activities that will help your students become even more involved in the stories that they read! Just a few examples: 1.Pantomime: Act out a ...
As always, our main aim is to let the students have fun in an educative way: learning comes through enjoyment, do you agree? Effective after-reading activities help activate the language from the ...
It's a speaking task for 9 -11 grade students.
Every letter of the alphabet is a sentence with a meaning: something to provoke a discussion. See some examples below:
A - Aspire to reach your pot ...
This life and death role play activity will get your class actively involved in discussing, collaborating, deciding, evaluating, negotiating, compromising, pleading, bribing, conspiring, betraying ...
Show me an English teacher who wouldn't like flashcards! I bet there isn't one: no matter if you're reaching adults, teenagers or younger kids, flashcards are a great tool to engage the learners a ...
How many times you wanted to add cool sound effects to your lessons? Well, now we can help!Today we're sharing a huge collection of different sound effects(77 effects, 47 Mb) - please see the full ...
We have compiled a collection of 57 FREE certificates and awards that you can print out and give to your students when they are good! Included in the archive: Fantastic Work! You Did It! Star ...
How many ways of encouraging your students can you name?
'Great!', 'Well Done!', 'Good Job'. 'Excellent!'... Any more?
Well, here you go - 99 ways to show your students that you know they have ...
In this archive: 17 attractive printable classroom labels for you to use in and outside of your English classroom: English Books Spelling Library Boys Bathroom Girls Bathroom ...and more!
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