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Interrogation: Past Continuous Role Play
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...
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Song Worksheet: Rocky Racoon by the Beatles
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...
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Movie Worksheet: Wallace & Gromit - The Wrong Trousers
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...
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The RCMP
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...
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How To Kill Someone: Murder Weapon Vocabulary Worksheet
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...
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Crime Word Search
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....
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Taxing Marijuana in California
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...
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Movie Worksheet: Se7en
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...
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Movie Worksheet: Kony 2012 (for Dutch speakers)
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,...
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Word Associations Game 1
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...
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El Ponchis - Hunted - Summary
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...
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El Ponchis 2 - Captured!
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...
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El Ponchis 3 - Tried and Convicted
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...
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Scrambled Halloween Story
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...
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The Polite Robber - Reported Speech
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...
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Police and Witness Dialogue - Talking about the Past
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...
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Talking about the Past: Detective and Suspect Dialogue and Activity
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...
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Case Study - Death of the Rock Star
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...
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The Robbery [Past Continuous & Past Simple]
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...
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Crime, Punishment, Justice Taboo [Vocabulary]
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...
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