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Song Worksheet: Here With Me

The worksheet is a reading comprehension and speaking exercise based on the lyrics. It starts by talking about how people used to keep pictures in places like their wallets or in a locket necklace and...

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Billy Jean Gap Fill Song Activity

Listen to the song Billy Jean and fill the gaps. An alltime classic! Enjoy.One activity that can be done before giving out the worksheets is on a piece of paper get the students to write down any words...

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To Be, Present Simple and Progressive, Future, Simple Past

This file is a complete review for student (Elementary Level): Verb to be, Present Simple, Present Progressive, Past Simple and Future, with exercises.This review was done for elementary students to...

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Last Saturday: Picture Story

This is an easy guided writing activity for students who are studying the past tense. The purpose is to help them write a whole text in English, as they often lack confidence and/or have no idea what...

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The World´s Tallest Building (Reading Comphrension)

This is a reading comphrension about the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world. It contains a short texts and several questions to test comphrension. The language level is quite simple, using...

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Song Worksheet: Mother by John Lennon

Instructions: In pairs or individually students complete the blanks with verbs in the past tense: HAD, WANTED, DIDN'T, NEEDED, LEFT, COULDN’T, TRIED, GOT.Simple and easy to be used as a warmer, cooler...

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Song Worksheet: One Life by James Morrison

Hi guys, this worksheet was great in helping my students practise the Past Simple. It also helped them reflect on the importance of making the best of their youth, pondering on choices they make now...

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Simple Present: Speaking Activity

Speaking activity full of simple present - 1. fill in the missing question word, 2. guess your partner's answers, 3. ask your partner (use question word + do + you +......?), 4. check your guesses, 5....

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REVISION: Present, Past Simple & Continuous, Adjectives, Questions, Word Order.

It's a simple revision of present and past - simple and continuous, some adjectives, questions and word order. Of great use before starting with the course book. It can also be used as a sort of...

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The Greatest Treasure (Reading and Listening)

Hello again, it has been long. I have missed submitting worksheets :D Anyway, this worksheet will help you to practice Past Simple forms by reading, listening. There are 3 parts. First the students...

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How Coyote Made the Winter. A Native American Story

I took this text from Happy Earth 1 classbook. In the first activity students have to provide the past forms of the verbs listed next to the text. In the 2nd one, they have to classify the verbs. In...

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Was/were Worksheet

This is a simple reading worksheet about was/were. I teach Brazilian students, so this was done using Brazilian DEAD celebrities, but you can change to international DEAD celebs, too. It has been used...

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Past Simple. Writing a Story

This worksheet comprises four different types of stories referring to the topic Travelling. There are different phrases in each story and students have to use all the phrases in order to make a full...

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Funny Poem: Past Simple Gap Fill Worksheet

A bad case of the sneezes, by Bruce Lansky.Funny 'school excuses' poem, and gap fill exercise created to practise the past simple tense.Can also be used as a reading exercise, a warmer or filler, and...

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Past Simple: Regular Verbs

Students ask classmates what they did at the weekend. Then they have to form sentences about what they have found out using Past Simple. The worksheet contains  forming questions, having dialogues,...

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Team Writing

Team writing. Use the pictures and write a story "Happy to be alive". Make a plan, think about linking words. Use past tenses. Don't forget to use : first, then,after that, next, just then, finally....

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Song Worksheet: Somebody I used to Love by Gotye

This is a hit song by Gotye . The worksheet contains a gap filling activity with the lyrics and simple past, reordering the lines and correcting mistakes. The video can be found on You Tube with and...

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Past Simple and Past Continuous Worksheet

This is a 2-page worksheet contrasting the past simple and the past continuous tense.Recommended for elementary students who are asked to look at the picture and write sentences, correct mistakes and...

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Reading Comprehension - The Mary Rose

A worksheet prepared for pre-intermediate and intermediate students. It's a reading comprehension about a famous ship, The Mary Rose. The part of the worksheet has been created for a test at a primary...

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Verbs for Movers

A powerpoint presentation teaching verb tenses in a colourful way for movers or starters. I usually use a section at a time, sometimes to teach a new tense and sometimes before introducing question...

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