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Visiting Canada Regulations

This reading comprehension has been designed to test Ss' knowledge, understanding and use of  must/ have to and their negatives. It may also be used to introduce travel documents vocabulary. It...

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Expressing Past, Present and Future Abilities

This is a worksheet in which my learners have to form a meaningful sentences to express abilities.Step one: they are going to look at the pictures in order to help themselves to understand the...

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Modal Verbs - Ability, Certainty and Probability

This is a 2-page worksheet for revising modal verbs at pre-intermediate level. There are 4 different activities in which students are asked to fill in the gaps with a suitable modal verb, rewrite the...

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Super Pig, Slow Turtle!

For beginners. They need fun games too! This is a board game I did with elementary classes. It gets students to practice some functional classroom language (Can I...?, shapes, numbers, class objects,...

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Must, Mustn´t, Needn´t, It´s illegal

This worksheet deals with the modals must, mustn´t, and needn´t as they imply obligation, proihibition, and lack of necessity respectively. It begins with a brief explanation of these modals, and then...

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Song Worksheet: Girl on Fire by Alicia Keys (slides) (Modal Verb 'Can')

These slides are based on the modal CAN and the song "Girl on Fire", by Alicia Keys. At first, as a warm up, some activities people can do are shown, and then it asks  students what they can/cannot do...

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Health and Illnesses

Useful PPT with a lot of images and a video to extend vocab in this topic.You can find picture descriptions, group activity with symptoms,illnesses, medicines.Ss have to give advice using 'should' and...

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Song Worksheet and PPT: Girl on Fire, by Alicia Keys ('Can')

These slides are to be used together with the song worksheet "Girl on Fire", by Alicia Keys. They are based on the modal verb 'can'. At first, as a warm up, some activities people can do are shown, and...

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Asking Permission

Asking permission is an essential part of social English that students often come across both in the classroom and real life. I usually explain to my learners the difference between can/could/may/do...

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Speculation about Future Game

This game will help learners feel the difference between future forms in terms of speculation. It is easy and fun, as the aim is to guess what kind of picture is “hidden” on a board. Moreover, the game...

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Modal Verbs Difficulties

This is a presentation of modal verbs in PDF that explores the most problematic areas related to them: avoidance, comprehension, using the full infinitive, questions and negations, different forms with...

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Classroom Rules

Students are introduced to the class rules through the use of 'can't', 'mustn't, and 'aren't allowed to'. They have some pictures and must form sentences with each of the modal verbs above and the...

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Modal Verbs: Advice and Recommendation

This is a worksheet for revising modal verbs (advice and recommendation) recommended for pre-intermediate students who are asked to complete the sentences using the correct form of 'should' and the...

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Modal Verbs

This worksheet is a quiz about using English modal verbs.There are 26 items.For example, should/could/must/shall you pass me the salt, please? I also provide the answers for the quiz at the end of the...

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A Kangaroo Can Jump but It Can't Fly

This worksheet was originally used as part of an enrichment activity to supplement a unit on animals in the New Parade 2 (elementary school) ESL textbook. At this stage, the students had already...

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Predicting Your Future

This is a worksheet for predicting the future with will, may and won't at elementary and intermediate level. Pupils have to fill in the gaps with will, may or won't. Then they can share it with the...

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Future Forms Worksheet

The worksheet comprises the most common ways to express future, including future simple (with 'probably', 'definitely'), present continuous, be going to, would like to, would rather, may/ might....

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Talents and Abilities (Can, Can't)

The topic of this worksheet is talents. Students have to write  what they can do and what they can't do. The worksheet also presents link words such as "and, too, but" and it also provides plenty of...

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Can and Can't (Talking about Talents)

The topic of this worksheet is talents. Students learn vocabulary for typical leisure time activities. They learn how to use can and can't, the definite article "the" and the "zero" article. The...

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Panda

In this worksheet you practise present simple, the verb 'can', and read about animals' habitats, food they eat, body characteristics and customs. This is also about environment/nature. This is a...

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