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Procedure
Show Ss some pictures of London and San Francisco. Choose some well known tourist spots. Ask Ss to describe the pictures and to say where they were taken. To complicate things a bit you can add one or two pictures taken somewhere else.
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Keywords: , comparatives, grammar, intermediate, reading, true / false
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Learners work in pairs. One person is a police officer. Another person is a witness who've seen a man steal dvd player from a shop. The witness is presented with a picture of a thief and had to remember and then describe what the thief looked like to ...
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Keywords: , game, intermediate, pairwork, person-description, speaking, vocabulary
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The idea of this task is information gap. Students work in pairs. Each person gets a different handout with different buildings marked on the map. Ss job is to exchange information in order to complete their maps. They should ask Excuse me, how can i get to...? questions. ...
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Keywords: directions, elementary, map, pairwork, places, speaking, vocabulary
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Ss are divided into 3 groups. One group gets a reading passage about bars in California, another group gets a reading passage about pubs in Britain. The third group gets nothing.
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Keywords: britain, california, definitions, intermediate, pubs, reading, speaking, vocabulary
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Ss are presented with a set of questions (brain teasers). They work in pairs or groups and come up with most plausible explanations. Then present them with explanations sent to one of the newspapers.
Teasers
Why is it that one person yawning often makes another person yawn?
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Keywords: advanced, reading, riddle, speculating, young-learners
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Ss complete the text about a consumer fighting with British Gas with sentences found below the text.
Excerpt
Any day I am expecting a man from British Gas to come round and cut off my supply. It will be more fun than the time the man from Sainsbury's supermarket implied ...
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Keywords: advanced, british-gas, completion, consumer-war, reading
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Ss complete the text about babies (not) being born in Italy with words found below the text.
Excerpt
Italy is going through a population crisis of extraordinary proportions.
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Keywords: advanced, babies, grammar, italy, multiple-choice, reading
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Procedure
Put the words into the sentences. You can change form the words if necessary.
Complete the sentences with the words given. Sometimes one word might appear more than once.
Excerpt
career course duty employment job work, achieve deal manage face succeed
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Keywords: confusing-words, education, grammar, intermediate, work
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THE young in China are going to desperate lengths to add extra inches to their height in pursuit of celebrity and wealth. They are being urged on by a government shamed by the news that, for the first time in history, the Japanese now stand taller
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Keywords: advanced, china, height, ielts, matching, multiple-choice, reading
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Passive continuous activities. Note that the table can be used to present the structure - write a few examples by hand and use it to induce the structure.
Procedure
Change the sentences into passive continuous so that both sentence mean the same.
Complete the table.
Excerpt
1)I was cleaning the garden whole day ...
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Keywords: grammar, intermediate, passive-continuous, presentation, transformation
