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| vocabulary charity |  charity dominoesdominoes for collocations relating to the topic of charity | 14 Apr 2010 |
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| grammar gerund / infinitive | gerunds and infinitives - speaking prompts 20 squares with questions and other speaking prompts to practice the use of gerunds and infintives | 22 Mar 2010 |
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| grammar gerund / infinitive | sentence completion squares Twenty squares with prompts for completion to practice simple gerund / infinitives after prepositions, adjectives, modals, verbs etc | 20 Mar 2010 |
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| grammar relative clauses - non-defining | non-defining relative clauses assembly 2 Students make six sentences by combining information on cards using non-defining relative clauses. Topics: the Tungkuska Event, the London Underground, the Suez Canal The Taj Mahal, the Vatican City and the Berlin Wall | 19 Mar 2010 |
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| grammar adjectives - gradable / absolute | absolute adjectives speaking activity Sixteen cards with statements using a gradable adjective. (e.g. Was it cold in Toronto?) Others have to respond using an absolute adjective. (e.g. Cold? It was absolutely freezing!) | 19 Feb 2010 |
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| skills topics books | best-selling books Fourteen short descriptions of all-time best-selling books. Students match. Can be done orally with students taking it in turns to read out the descriptions. Others have to guess the book. | 16 Feb 2010 |
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| grammar conditionals | conditionals - sentence completion squares Twenty-four squares with open, first, second and third conditional sentences for completion. | 04 Feb 2010 |
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| functions emphasizing | emphasizing - situation cards | 30 Jan 2010 |
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| grammar articles | articles - reference sheet Reference sheet for general use of articles that students can fill-in from examples. Answer sheet attached | 25 Jan 2010 |
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| grammar would - typical behaviour will - typical behaviour | will and would for tendencies - past and present Students take it in turns to read out the strips. The others must a) guess who or what they are talking about, and b) say whether it is past or present, fact or tendency | 21 Jan 2010 |
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| grammar narrative tenses | narrative tenses practice Eight personalized senteces with multiple choice endings. Students complete and then make questions to find their partner's answers | 15 Jan 2010 |
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| vocabulary illness / injury | ailments matching Three-column, twelve-row matching: He sprained || his ankle || playing football etc. | 13 Dec 2009 |
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| vocabulary prefixes and suffixes | prefixes snap Twenty-five cards - 11 prefixes, 14 word stems. (1) play snap. (2) Gap fill and oral follow-up | 05 Nov 2009 |
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| vocabulary prefixes and suffixes | prefixes quiz Two eight-question word completion quizzes. These can be done in teams (A and B) and then the teams question each other | 01 Nov 2009 |
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| skills topics language learning | vocabulary learning Worksheet illustrating syntax, collocation, connotation and register and an example of full vocabulary notebook entries | 28 Oct 2009 |
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| grammar gerund / infinitive | speaking cues for gerunds and infinitives Twenty speaking cues using verbs that can be followed by both gerund and infinitive with a change in meaning: stop, regret, try, remember etc. | 29 Jul 2009 |
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| grammar passive voice | passive snakes and ladders 24 cards - multiple-choice and error correction. Focuses on errors using the passive voice related to intransitive verbs (happen, arrive etc.) and verbs that are often used intransitively (start, open etc.) | 27 Jul 2009 |
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| grammar passive voice | new passive mini-scrabble 105-card mini scrabble | 26 Jul 2009 |
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| grammar modal auxiliary verbs | introduction to modals Language analysis worksheet introducing the modals and some of the functions they express. Students match modals to functions. | 06 Jul 2009 |
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| grammar time expressions - past | correction / multiple-choice cards Fifteen cards for error correction or multiple-choice to revise time linkers: after, before, when, while, as, as soon as, by the time, during Can be used with a snakes & ladders game or students can simply take it in turns to pick a card and answer. Answers and explanations included | 05 Jul 2009 |
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| grammar present perfect tense | present perfect and past simple speaking : pairs Students make a noughts-and-crosses grid on a piece of loose paper. Then they write the missing information (numbers) from the worksheet in the squares. Then exchange grids and guess what each number refers to. (They can either make statements (simple version) or form questions (more challenging) | 30 May 2009 |
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| grammar conditionals - second | second conditional - alternatives to 'if' Students fill gaps to complete four questions to ask their partners. Supposing you could.... / Imagine you had... etc | 13 May 2009 |
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| grammar reporting verbs | reporting verb dominoes Twelve dominoes. Verbs: admit, confirm, encourage, persuade, claim, advise, convince, suggest, explain, complain, reassure, announce Revised, March, 2010 | 13 May 2009 |
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| vocabulary illness / injury | common illnesses and injuries - matching and mime cards Matching exercise - I've broken my | leg arm; I've got | toothache sunburn etc Twelve mime cards 'I was playing football and I twisted my ankle' etc | 26 Apr 2009 |
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| grammar reported speech | reported speech dominoes Twelve-card reported speech dominoes, all showing backshift | 26 Mar 2009 |
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| functions giving personal news | holiday letter Short letter with gaps and alternative phrases for either a good or bad holiday. | 12 Mar 2009 |
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| grammar articles | Zero article - general plurals oral practice Twenty cards with cues, 'Dogs...', 'Young people...', 'Politicians...' etc. Students must make a generalization. Can be done as board game. | 12 Mar 2009 |
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| grammar articles | Defininte article matching cards 20 cards with places / words or phrases that require a definite article; 10 cards with 'the'. Students match. | 12 Mar 2009 |
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| grammar present perfect tense - present relevance functions giving personal news | giving news squares 12 squares, each containing a present perfect sentence giving personal news (I have got married etc.) Some keywords are underlined. The reading student has to communicate this sentence without using the underlined words. First student to reconstruct the original sentence wins the round | 12 Mar 2009 |
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| skills topics films | half-minute topics: films 16 strips for personalization on the topic of movies; The first film you remember seeing / a film that made you cry / a film you saw on a plane etc | 09 Mar 2009 |
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