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LessonCLIL: History—Sylvia Alice Earle
Introduce your students to Silvia Alice Earle, famous for her underwater travels.
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Teaching toolEmotional Treasure Hunt
Boost your students’ vocabulary and speaking skills with this engaging board game.
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Teaching toolGrammar & Vocabulary Practice: How were you feeling?
Reinforce the use of verb to be in past tense and help your students talk about thier emotions with this useful worksheet.
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Teaching toolGrammar Cards: Pronouns and Personal Titles for Talking About People
Help your students practise talking to and about people using different pronouns and personal titles.
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Teaching toolGrammar Cards: Describing Objects, People & Places
Help your students practise describing objects, people, and places with this set of descriptive adjective cards.
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Teaching toolGrammar Cards: Irregular Verbs in Past Participle
Help your students learn the past participle form of irregular verbs.
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Teaching toolGrammar Cards: Regular Verbs in Past & Past Participle
Help your students learn the past & past participle forms of regular verbs.
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Teaching toolGrammar Cards: Irregular Verbs in Past
Help your students practice talking about Past Actions using irregular verbs.
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Teaching toolGrammar Cards: Talking About Habits & Routines
Help your students practice discussing Habits & Routines using different verbs, time expressions, and frequency adverbs.
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LessonImpressions (B1): In the past, we used to …
Are the “good old days” better than current times? In this lesson, students look at old photos and use used to to compare the past and the present.
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Warmer/FillerYoung Learner Topics: Santa Claus Gets Stuck
Get your Young Learners to talk about Christmas with this fun story about Santa Claus.
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Cambridge English First: Use of English: Language focus: Time expressions
This lesson aims to help students prepare for the key word transformation section of the exam (part 4) by focusing on time expressions with the present perfect.
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Mingling activity: Irregular pasts
An individual and mingling activity to practise the irregular past simple.
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Finish the sentence: Past perfect continuous
A small-group card game to practise the past perfect continuous.
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Last week: past simple
Students take part in a small group, information-gap and puzzle-solving activity to practise the past simple.
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100 years ago: Was / were
Students take part in a team competition to practise was, were, wasn’t and weren’t.
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Have we met? Present perfect and past simple
Students take part in a whole-class role-play to practise using the present perfect, then switching to the past simple.
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Evidence: Past modals
Students work together to decide who they think commited a burglary using evidence cards and practising past modals.