I found this worksheet once on a language learning portal.It is a great role-play for practising the past continuous in a communicative, fun way. Make sure you first teach the past continuous and past simple /structure, uses, etc./.
Complete worksheet for such a "squeezable" song! In it you will find: past simple exercises, find a word that mean..., look up words in a dictionary and summarize the story. You can model it to suit your needs. As a follow up you can encourage your stu ...
This is a great activity to do with Elementary/Pre-intermediate students, but can also be adapted for higher levels. Watch The Wrong Trousers with your students and pause the film in four places, then give your students time to answer the questions in ...
This is a intermediate/upper intermediate reading on the RCMP from the Encylopedia of Canada website. Questions after different sections for comprehension and images to keep the interest. Possible Vocabulary activities to follow this would be a useful ...
This a vocabulary worksheet that may be useful when working on murder stories / detective stories / thrillers (weapons are related to verbs / actions). It also enables pupils to train on the passive form. The list can be completed with pupils' ideas!
This is a simple worksheet with words dealing with criminal investigation. It can be used as one of the activities the aim of which is checking the students' understanding of crime-related vocabulary. Since this is a game, students should be quite coop ...
This is a short documentary about an American man, called Richard Lee, who runs coffee shop that is a marijuana dispensary.The video also shows Oaksterdam University, where students train for the marijuana industry. The reasons for legalization of mar ...
This is a video session practice on the movie Seven for students to get a general idea of the plot and to keep track of the different pieces of evidence they should remember when retelling the story. I made it for my intermediate students so they could ...
I put this worksheet together in my first year of teachingtopical subject of early part of 2012introduce the difficult words: Friendship, SAFETY, the law, keep in touch, spreading ideas, oppression, Army… a dictator;To speak on behalf of other p ...
Word associations game is very popular in my country. Split your students in two teams. Each team in turn chooses a field and tries to find the solutions to the columns and the key word that connects them. The game is a great icebreaker/warmer. I have ...
This is the first in a series of 3 articles about a teenager called El Ponchis who was working for a drug cartel in Mexico and was responsible for beheading at least 3 people. Clues are given to heop students with the summary and there is a model answe ...
The second in a series of 3 articles about a young teenager called El Ponchis who was working for a drug cartel in Mexico and who allegedly beheaded at least 3 people. The questions following the article include 10 multiple choice vocabulary words from ...
This is the third in a series of 3 articles about a young teenager called El Ponchis who worked as an assassin for a drug cartel in Mexico. In this article, he is captured and convicted. His sentence will shock you. This article is followed by a set of ...
It can be a homework or a filler during the Halloween season. Students have to put together the sentences of a Halloween story using the codes given in the table. It is ideal for elementary level students and above who are familiar with the past simple ...
Reported speech powerpoint activity that I created for a class / group activity. It is based on a real life, true crime carried out by a very polite man who robs a petrol station. Each slide shows the conversation between the robber and the station own ...
Reporting a crime. Past simple, past continuous, and questions activity. Reading, speaking, gap fill writing & role play activity cards. The first card is a reading dialogue for partners. The second is a gap fill speaking, role play card which can ...
Two part, past simple, past continuous, and questions, police and suspect activity cards. The first is a 'partner' reading or role play activity. The second is a speaking, gap fill role play activity card. The second can also be used as a 'writing' gap ...
Work in groups of 5 (maybe 6).This is a case study the ultimate goal of which is to find the criminal and reconstruct the possible murder scenes and scenarios. In fact, there is no single right answer for the case, there can be a variety - from suicide ...
Hi :) I tried to prepare a worksheet which can be used while teaching Past Simple and Past Continuous. The students are given a short story about a robbery at a bank. After reading and examining the story, they are asked to create a similar scenario wh ...
This is some vocabulary to play a game like Taboo. The only difference is that there are no forbidden words. This is a pretty good game since it just requires the students to concentrate on the main words and speak freely. I think students will really ...