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Getting to Know Your Students: a Fun Diagnostic Test
Every year I start teaching English in a different school where I have no information about what my students know. ESL books come with a very boring diagnostic test and this gives the students the idea...
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Getting to Know Your Students: Intuition Game
You can use this game either to get to know the students in your first lesson, or to revise present tenses. How to play: you choose one volunteer to come to the black-board, he/she brings one slip of...
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Describing Oneself
This is a worksheet I usually use at the beginning of the school year. The aim is for the students to be able to fill in the information about themselves so later they can write about it. It will also...
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The Guide to English Slang
The worksheet provides a list of commonly used slang terms in English (as taken from a native speaker). How many ways of saying “Hello” or “Good” do you know? You can make your lessons more exciting by...
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Favourites Bingo
A simple getting-to-know-each-other game ideal for the beginning of the school year. It works like a regular bingo except we use our favourites instead of numbers. It could be considered a version of...
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Describe Your Person (Fun Game)
This is a fun activity for describing people, the teacher or the students select a person beforehand and without revealing her name, hand in the paper with the description to other student whose job is...
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Your Free Time
You can use this worksheet to practise everyday English. The topis is giving an opinion. It's a good way to make your students feel confident while using English in classes. The worksheet can be used...
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Can You Speak English?
Students love chants and rhymes. Here is a simple worksheet with basic vocabulary. It shows and proves that English as a language is not that difficult. Students look at pictures, change them into...
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Introduction
Here is a two page activity which you can use for beginners or low elementary students, especially in business situations. It contains a short description of what you need to know when introducing...
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Guess Who: What/When/How Old Questions Review
Another version of the Guess Who game, made to practice the following structures: What (sports/food) do you like?, How old are you?, When is your birthday?, Are you (Max)?To the left of the pictures...
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Tenses Revision in Questions
The activity is called "Let's get to know each other better" and focuses on making questions in different tenses up to present perfect and writing down one's partner's answer in the correct tense form...
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Getting Acquainted
You can use this questionnaire for collecting some basic information about your students and while learning the corresponding topic. The questionnaire can be extended if necessary. You can create more...
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Greeting Activities (with Glossary for Spanish Speakers)
This worksheet contains: Fill in the blanks activity with vocabulary about greetings. Pictures to recognize different times of the day. Activity to order sentences (personal questions).I used this...
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Welcome Back Cards 4th Year
This is a nice activity for students of 4th year primary school to colour and complete about themselves on the first day of school. Teachers may change questions according to students' knowledge and...
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Greetings for Kindergarten
This is a simple worksheet that will help students to practice the greetings by repeating each one of them. It is also a great tool for those students who are learning to differentiate the letters and...
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Angry Birds- Welcome Back to School
Students love Angry Birds but they do not like returning to school. This worksheet is intended to fullfil learners' expectations when they come back to school by revising structures, personal...
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Dialogue (Getting-to-Know Each Other)
Dialogue with two people introducing themselves, saying their names, asking how they are and saying goodbye. There are gaps to complete with the words in the box. This activity can be used in the...
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Conversation Starters
These are some questions that I have used as conversation starters, or jumping off points. Mainly used with higher level students, however there are some that can be used at most levels. Most are based...
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Questions and Answers
Simple board game to practice elementary wh-questions such as "What's your name? How old are you? Where are you from" and yes/no questions with 'be'. The students are supposed to put the sentence...
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Word Search (Greetings / Introduction / Farewells)
Simple word search for beginners. It has words related to greetings, introduction and farewells. It can be used at the practice stage, after presenting this vocabulary. But, maybe depending on the...
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