The Invention Game
Distribute a copy of one item to your students. They need to read the instruction and if everything is clear follow them. At the end of the game they should make a final decision of who should be...
View ArticleStreet Signs
There are 2 activities in this worksheet, first students have to write the street signs warnings and then draw other signs. It can also be used to review the modal verb must, students would have to...
View ArticleCold Weather Survival Tips
This worksheet is a reading activity created as one of the tasks in winter English speaking camp. It’s quite informative and deals with the question how to survive/keep warm in cold weather. There are...
View ArticleMovie Worksheet: Peppa Pig- Ice-skating. (Practising 'Can' with Six Year Olds)
Activities based on a Peppa Pig episode, for young learners aged about 6. Practising "can" in questions and short answers. After watching, a teacher may check the answers and elicit "Yes, he/she can"...
View ArticleModal Verbs: Can, Could, Would
A few slides to explain how to use the modal verbs can,could and would.It can be used in the classroom or like support to students outside the classroom.It´s very simple and contains no exercises. It...
View ArticleFree Time Activities and Sports
This is a poster with free time activities and sports. Based on the presentation of using modal verb can/can't for expressing ability. Include sports, outdoor activities, sport games, playing musical...
View ArticleI Can/ I Can't
This is a presentation with free time activities and sports. Can be used as presentation of using modal verb can/can't for expressing ability. Include sports, outdoor activities, sport games, playing...
View ArticleDear Abby-Type Problems/ Giving Advice
This is an activity for free practice of the modal should and other expressions of advice. The students usually love moving around and being in role. It's a fun, dynamic activity, with minimal teacher...
View ArticleThe Mystery of "Nasca Lines" (Listening/Reading Activity)
Nasca Lines are one of the greatest mysteries in the world. The worksheet offers you pictures for guessing the story and meaning of these lines using modals of deduction; a running dictation;...
View ArticleReading Dreams
This worksheet deals with the topic of dreams. It does not focus on any grammatical aspect in particular. It consists of a fill-in the blanks listening about analyzing dreams that I adapted from...
View ArticleLifelong Learning
This worksheet was created to Unit 10 of the New Total English Elementary 2 course book and aims to practice school subjects, expressions in connection with learning and modal verbs (have to, don't...
View ArticleSemester Test for the 4th Grade
The test is for the 4th graders. It contains basic questions using structures such as can/have/do and wh-questions. The grammar areas are: possesive 's, adjectives describing people, present simple,...
View ArticleNeedn't Have Worksheet
This is a worksheet for FCE students to practise needn't have or didn't need to. It has 13 situations with images and a sentence where students have to choose the correct form of the verb: needn't have...
View ArticleModals - Speculating about the Past
Three exercises to practice modal verbs to speculate about the past. 1st exercise: could/can't. 2nd exercise must/can't and 3rd might/might not. To be honest I do not exactly remember but I think they...
View ArticleShould and Shouldn't
It's a nice speaking exercise to practise "should / shouldn't". Cut the cards, put them face down and make students work in pairs. Each student draws one card, reads it aloud and another student must...
View ArticleSong Worksheet: The Day before You Came (Modal Verbs of Probability)
This is a PowerPoint Presentation "Modal Verbs of Probability through the song -The day before you came". Recommended for adult students of the upper-intermediate level. I planned it as a whole lesson...
View ArticleSeen through the Microscope
I use this PPT to practise speaking with all kind of students, although it is better to use it with skilled students. Whenever I do this activity in class the students have great fun when they see very...
View ArticleJC'S Needn't Have Critical Path
When teaching past necessity, I have found this critical path very helpful. It helps students differenciate between necessary and unnecessary actions in the past and how to express whether they were...
View ArticleJC'S Past Necessity Critical Path
When teaching past necessity, I have found this critical path very helpful. It helps students differenciate between necessary and unnecessary actions in the past and how to express whether they were...
View ArticleCan You...? Interview Worksheet
Made for grade 6 students in a Japanese elementary school, this worksheet includes a sample of how to write the target question (Can you...?) and also examples of writing the sentences "S/he can/can't...
View Article