Author: Jim Scrivener
Many new language courses kick off in September and October. If its the time the first time the class has met, learners will need a chance to learn each others names. Here is an unusual game to try.
Prepare a set of small cards one for each learner. On ...
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Keywords: game, groupwork, icebreaker, intermediate, speaking, true / false
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All around the world, people live in different types of homes. Many people live in apartment buildings reaching high into the sky. In Spain many people live in villas with big swimming pools. Eskimos live in igloos. Igloos are made of huge blocks of ice. [...]
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Keywords: , completion, comprehension, elementary, houses, reading, true / false, vocabulary
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Andrea didn’t really love Jack and she knew he didn’t really love her, either. So it didn’t bother her at all when, two weeks after their wedding, she saw Jack kissing a young man on his yacht. His name was Howard. That was another reason Jack needed her. ...
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Keywords: , completion, gay, grammar, homosexualism, love-affair, pronunciation, reading, relative-pronouns, speaking, stress, true / false, verbs, vocabulary, word-formation
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ON WEEKENDS Hamto Kawaguchi becomes a very modern Japanese father. He cooks. He cleans. He plays with the kids. But come Monday, Haruto crawls back into the role of an oldstyle Japanese employee. Rising at 4 a.m., he leaves his wife, Hisako, and three children and dutifully boards ...
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Keywords: adults, family, heading, japanese, job, main-idea, reading, true / false, work
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A steward came hurrying and sprinkled water on the table cloth between the plates. The excitement subsided. Most of the passengers continued with their meal. A small number, including Mrs Renshaw, got carefully to their feet and threaded their ways with a kind of concealed haste between the ...
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Keywords: advanced, cruise, reading, ship, true / false, vocabulary
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There are now over 700 million motor vehicles in the world - and the number is rising by more than 40 million each year. The average distance driven by car users is growing too - from 8 km a day per person in western Europe in 1965 to ...
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Keywords: advanced, cars, environment, main-idea, reading, transport, true / false
Shared by Ana
Procedure
Work with your partner. Analyze the sentences below. Underline phrases that tell where things or people are.
Look at the picture below and decide if sentences from Task2 are true or false.
Look at the office room below. Use the model below to ask your friend questions.
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describing_street_office_room.sxw
describing_street_office_room.pdf
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Keywords: describing-pictures, drill, elementary, grammar, prepositions, true / false
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The Amish live in Pennsylvania, USA. They came from Switzerland and Germany in the eighteenth century and live together on farms. Although they live just 240 kilometers from New York City, their lifestyle hasn't really changed in the last 250 years. They've turned their backs on modern materialism: ...
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Keywords: amish, can, can't adults, elementary, reading, speculating, true / false, use
Shared by Adam
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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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Snuff is a powdered form of tobacco. It was first brought to England in the late 17th century by King Charles II. Snuff was enjoyed by all classes of society till cigarettes became popular in the middle of the 19th century.
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Keywords: collecting, comprehension, intermediate, matura, tobacco, true / false