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Tattoo Me Too!
Do the Obama daughters want tattoos? Probably not. Their father told "Today" show how the Obama parents are keeping their daughters away from tattoos. (Tattoos, different viewpoints on tattooing, first and second conditional)
Pre-Intermediate
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And The Winner Is...
This warmer is designed to be done before the U.S. Academy Awards. It gets students to practice arguing for or against something, to discuss choices, and to express opinions.
Pre-Intermediate Lesson Updated: 18 February 2013
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Diamond Gifts
A piece of Antarctica named after her, a baby llama, tea from Sri Lanka and her own set of Olympic medals were just some of the gifts Britain's Queen Elizabeth received during her 2012 diamond jubilee year. Foreign leaders,... luxury goods businesses and members of the public gave the British queen a treasure trove of gifts. (Gift giving, jubilees, superlative adjectives.)
Pre-Intermediate
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Chinese New Year
To practice reading for understanding, to practice asking and answering questions, to learn about customs of different cultures.
Pre-Intermediate
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When I'm Old .....
Liu Qianping was visiting his 24-year-old granddaughter in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou when he saw the women's clothes [that his] granddaughter was packing into boxes. His visit came as the model that Lu Ting and four friends had booked for a photo shoot suddenly canceled. (Fashion, old age, retirement, first and second conditional, poem, "shall".)
Pre-Intermediate
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Adjectives
We use adjectives to tell us what something is like: tell us more about somebody or something. This Vocabulary Worksheet works with some adjectives that we use a lot.
Pre-Intermediate
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Drive For Status
In Tebet, Indonesia houses cost around $100,000. Outside many of the [houses] are Mercedes-Benzes, BMWs and Jeeps - imported cars worth as much as the houses themselves. In Jakarta drivers show off sleek Italian sports cars, British Bentleys, and the most expensive people carriers. The luxury cars are a sign of the growing wealth of the middle class in Indonesia. Cars, status symbols, Indonesia, shopping, present continuous.)
Pre-Intermediate
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Max Vocab Worksheet - Environment Words (pre-int)
This Pre-Intermediate worksheet looks at the environment and looks at definitions and has a student exercise to follow.
Pre-Intermediate
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Asia's Nobel Winners
A Taiwanese vegetable seller is one of six winners of Asia's Ramon Magsaysay Award this year. Chen has been selling vegetables in Taiwan's Taitung central market since 1963. She has used the money she gets from selling vegetables to help build a library and feed and shelter children-and families displaced by disasters.
Pre-Intermediate
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Easter Bunny?
The Easter Bunny may not always be an Easter icon in Australia and New Zealand, as conservationists remove to replace it with the Bilby or the Kiwi. (Easter, conservation, the rabbit as a pest.)
Pre-Intermediate
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Japan pocket Terminator
Don't let the fluffy socks fool you. Pint-sized Japanese wrestler Saori Yoshida could just be the most fearsome athlete in any sport at this year's London Olympics. (Wrestling, Japan, Summer Olympics)
Pre-Intermediate
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Olympic Opening Ceremony
London's Olympic Stadium will be [turned] into a British meadow complete with fields, cows, ducks, a horse-drawn plough and a game of village cricket for the opening ceremony of this year's summer Games. (Olympic Games, opening ceremony, England.)
Pre-Intermediate
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Famous Cities - Wellington, New Zealand
This warmer is a fun way for students to find out about transport and the city of Wellington.
Pre-Intermediate
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Trapped!
A Swedish man was dug out alive after being snowed in to his car on a forest track for two months with no food and a man was trapped in an elevator for more than 40 hours. (Being trapped, escapes, direct speech, punctuation.)
Pre-Intermediate
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Lost and Found
Christmas came early for a Boston music student who was reunited with the $170,000 violin she forgot in the overhead compartment of a bus she rode and an 89-year-old Canadian widow has inherited a C$130 ($88,000) cash windfall, although the money - left by her late husband in a fire extinguisher canister - was found by a couple in a house she no longer owned. (Money, court cases, law, valuable things.)
Pre-Intermediate
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Farm Animals - Max Vocabulary Worksheet
This pre-intermediate worksheet looks at animals usually found on farms.
Pre-Intermediate
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Clever Cats and Dogs
A clever dog and a brave cat. Beau, a black Labrador Retriever do is becoming famous for his math skills. His owner says if he tells Beau there are six dogs at the park and three dogs leave, and then asks him how many are left, the dog replies: "Woof, woof, woof." Mimi, a Persian cat, attacked a burglar when he decided to burgle 'her' house. (Cats and dogs, bizarre stories, crime, pets.)
Pre-Intermediate
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The oldest, the tallest, the most expensive...
Tokyo is still the second most expensive city in the world for expatriates after Luanda in Angola. (World's most expensive cities, superlative adjectives, writing a headline, completing a table of information.)
Pre-Intermediate
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Wild Sleepover?
For wild animal lovers not content with watching tigers and gorillas during the day, a growing number of zoos are offering a more thrilling after-dark experience - overnight stays. Visitors are learning what happens when the gates slam shut, the sun goes down and the moon rises over some of America's most well-known zoos. (Sleepovers, zoos, writing questions using the present simple tense, present perfect simple, role play using present simple and present perfect simple, doing a crossword.)
Pre-Intermediate
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Seeing-eye Sheep and Goats
Michelle Feldstein was ready to provide special accommodation for the blind horse she recently added to the flightless ducks, clawless cats and homeless llamas at her animal shelter in Montana. But nothing could make her ready for the 40-legged, seeing-eye [group] that came with a blind 15-year-old horse called Sissy. (Animals and friendship, amazing stories, animal shelters, fact and opinion adjectives.
Pre-Intermediate
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Natural disasters: Tornadoes / Twisters
How to stay safe in a tornado? This activity encourages students to use their own general knowledge while interpreting a text, discussion and decision making.
Pre-Intermediate
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Lucky Pets
Americans may be trying to spend less money, but when it comes to their pets, they're spending more than ever. Between trips to the vet, specialty foods, treats and toys, pet insurance and even parties, Americans are happy to open up their wallets to keep Rex, Rover or even the house lizard healthy and happy. (Pets, costs, economy, benefits of having a pet.)
Pre-Intermediate
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Peach the Police Dog
Meet Japan's newest police dog -- all 3 kg (6.6 lb) of her. In what is a first for Japan and perhaps the world, a long-haired Chihuahua named "Momo" -- "Peach" -- passed exams to become a police dog in the western Japanese prefecture of Nara. (Dogs, police, guessing game.)
Pre-Intermediate
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Hot bodies
Using body heat from train commuters to warm buildings. (Energy, the future, word families, discussion, mixed questions, comprehension, will used to describe facts in the future, completing a diagram.)
Pre-Intermediate
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Robots
Robots that can talk, find [lost] glasses, draw airplanes and play with your children are attracting thousands of visitors during an expo in Tokyo. Robot nurses may soon be helping the sick by telling them when to take their pills and recording their temperature and pulse. (Robots, nurses, health, technology, 'by + verb + ing' used to say how something is done.)
Pre-Intermediate
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Protecting the Animals
Efforts to save tigers and kiwi birds. This lesson looks at conservation efforts in two different places. (Environment, animals, poaching, pests, New Zealand, Sundarban Forest, Bangladesh, India, present perfect simple).
Pre-Intermediate
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$40.00 a Foot
When Bhoopnarayan Jha lost his leg, he did not want to live. "I told my doctor, just kill me...," said 48-year-old Jha, who used to cycle 20 km (about 12 miles) to work every day. When Jha got a foot he walked after one hour. "In one month's time I could run and catch a bus." (Health, new inventions, amputees.)
Pre-Intermediate
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Talking About Reading Game
This warmer gives students speaking practice and helps them develop fluency in speaking about a topic. It also goes well with the Pre-Intermediate Instant Lesson “Better Late Than Never” which looks at library books and libraries.
Pre-Intermediate
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A Prince Among Men
Read articles about Prince William, grandson of Queen Elizabeth II of England, and share information about him to build a picture of what he is like. (Prince William, Queen Elizabeth, sharing information, family)
Pre-Intermediate
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"Generation XD"
They've never known a world without the Internet, but they still prefer to meet their friends offline. A new survey of eight to 14-year-old Europeans by U.S. company Walt Disney Co showed that the children of Generation X are web-savvy, videogame-playing environmentalists who love their parents.(Children, market research, values, interpreting figures.)
Pre-Intermediate
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?What do they Think?
This warmer helps students practice asking questions to find out the views of other students in the class.
Pre-Intermediate
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Stolen Phones
Music-lovers watching their favorite acts at concerts are increasingly becoming targets for gangs of mobile phone thieves, British police said. Thieves who steal mobile phones may soon find them unusable and the phones will scream at them. (Crime, technology, cell phones, use of future form, 'going to'.)
Pre-Intermediate
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Going Shopping
Britons were planning to spend less on gifts at Christmas time while Germans were planning to spend more. (Shopping trends, gift-giving, Internet shopping, choosing a gift.)
Pre-Intermediate
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Banking - Max Vocabulary Worksheet
The who, where and how of banking vocabulary.
Pre-Intermediate
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How Would You Like To Pay?
This Pre-Intermediate warmer looks at language used for shopping and paying for something.
Pre-Intermediate
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No Twitter
Teen star Miley Cyrus quit Twitter on Thursday and then used a rap video to tell the world why she had suddenly quit. "Everything that I type, Everything that I do, some gossip site makes it news." In recent months, celebrity news sites have taken what Cyrus says on Twitter about her weight and her boyfriends and turned them into news stories. (Celebrities, Hannah Montana, music, celebrity gossip, Twitter, first and second conditionals.)
Pre-Intermediate
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Nice To Meet You
A Pre-Intermediate resource in which students use memory cards to make a dialogue on meeting someone for the first time.
Pre-Intermediate
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Wedding Dress Record
A Chinese bride is hoping to enter the record books after getting married in a wedding dress with a train more than 2 km (1.2 miles). (Longest wedding dress in the world, wedding customs, discussion, role play, superlative adjectives, adjective order, romantic poems.)
Pre-Intermediate
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Falling in Love
This warmer gets students to read and look for spelling errors as well as understand the history behind Valentine's Day, discuss a topic and then work together to design a card.
Pre-Intermediate
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1st & 2nd Conditionals - Anna Grammar Worksheet
A Pre-intermediate worksheet with explanations and practice exercises on the first and second conditionals.
Pre-Intermediate
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Operation Flower
A Tokyo district with lots of burglaries has turned to planting flowers to help stamp out crime. "'Operation Flower' began about three years ago. By planting flowers, people will be keeping an eye out while taking care of the flowers or watering them... The best way to prevent crime is to have more people on the lookout." (Fighting crime, neighborhood watch groups, miming, listening for numbers, listening to true or false statements, past simple tense verbs - making negatives, making a poster.)
Pre-Intermediate
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Fast Food and Takeout
An Elementary Max Vocabulary Worksheet with exercises: matching, pair crossword puzzles.
Pre-Intermediate
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Could you repeat that please?
This speaking dialogue warmer helps students practice asking for clarification.
Pre-Intermediate
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It's a 24 Hours a Day Job
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's daughter has urged young Americans to abstain from having sex to avoid becoming a teenage mother like herself. Bristol Palin said, "Having a baby is a huge responsibility". High school students in the Mexican state of Chihuahua are being made to care for screaming, hiccuping baby dolls that run on computer chips to try to bring down the state's soaring teenage pregnancy rate. (Teenage pregnancy, speed reading, should and sharing information.)
Pre-Intermediate
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Thinking Outside The Box
A $6 cardboard box that uses solar power to cook food, sterilize water and could help 3 billion poor people cut greenhouse gases, has won a $75,000 prize for ideas to fight global warming. (Poverty, global warming, inventions and competitions, will for future events.)
Pre-Intermediate
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Shopping
Max Vocabulary Worksheet - Shopping. A Pre-Intermediate Vocabulary Worksheet.
Pre-Intermediate
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I Live at The White House
This 20 minute warmer will help students practise asking and answering questions to learn about the Obama family. Students will see examples of the present simple and read about the Obamas' daily lives.
Pre-Intermediate
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Homework For Sale
"You can't do it? We're here to help," says the homepage of a new website. The website allowed children the chance to buy answers ranging from solutions to simple maths problems to a full end-of-year presentation complete with slides and speaking notes.
Pre-Intermediate
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An Anna Worksheet - Most, Most of, All & All of
A Grammar Worksheet from Anna Grammar that looks at these quantifiers.
Pre-Intermediate
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Swishing
Welcome to swishing--for people who want shopping, clothes and entertainment but don't want to spend any money. "Swishing dos" are parties where people swap second-hand clothes. (Swishing, clothes shopping in a recession, ordering a conversation, the present continuous.)
Pre-Intermediate
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