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Fill 'er Up?
Seeking a place to work out of the office that is quieter than a bustling coffee shop and provides drinks, printers, Wi-Fi and even petrol? Regus, a provider of ready-to-use office space, thinks it has the answer. It has teamed up with Shell Germany to open up workplace hubs and lounges in 70 petrol stations in and around Berlin. (Reading for information, brainstorming, expressions used with business equipment, present simple tense uses and forms).
Intermediate
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All About Heads
This warmer is an enjoyable way for students to extend their vocabulary and have practice looking at meanings in context.
Intermediate
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Anna Grammar Worksheet - Finite & Infinite Verbs
Verbs are defined as finite or non-finite depending on where they are placed and what function they have in a phrase, clause or sentence. This worksheet has examples and exercises for students.
Intermediate
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World Leaders: Barack Obama, U.S President
This warmer gets students to read for specific information in order to complete a biographical table.
Intermediate
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All You Ever Wanted To Know About: The Oscars
A short activity to practice reading for understanding, asking and answering questions and to learn about the Oscars.
Intermediate
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Chore Monster
Forget bribery, intimidation and threats, a new app is designed to encourage children to do chores by turning the tasks into a game and giving them points when it is completed. The app called ChoreMonster, available for iOS devices and on the web, aims to make household chores, such as setting the table, feeding the pets or unloading the dishwasher, fun. (Chores, families, children and parents, giving advice, should/shouldn't.)
Intermediate
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Giving Kids
Not long after the megastorm Sandy hit the northeast United States, Maryum Goodwin and her little girl Ryleigh, 6, saw a disturbing picture of the New Jersey shore devastation. "That's somebody's house?" Ryleigh asked. "It used to be," said Maryum. That moment got Ryleigh thinking about how she could help. (Teaching children about giving, charities, disasters, past perfect)
Intermediate
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The Origins of Christmas Trees
This warmer looks at a little of the history of Christmas trees.
Intermediate
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Casual Clothes - Max Vocabulary Worksheet
Clothes that we wear in our free time when we want to be comfortable are casual clothes. An All Levels Vocabulary Worksheet with fun exercises.
Intermediate
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"Direct" & Indirect Speech - Grammar Worksheet
This Anna Grammar worksheet looks at an international summit and has 3 exercises for students to work on.
Intermediate
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3rd Conditional - Anna Grammar W.sheet (Int)
The third conditional is used when we talk about something in the past that did not happen. This intermediate worksheet looks at the Tomatina Festival in Bunol, Spain, and practices the third conditional.
Intermediate
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Animal Apps
Humans aren't the only species on the planet with a penchant for electronic gadgets. Zookeepers across the United States and Canada are discovering that apes also get excited about apps. 12 zoos have been incorporating iPads into the enrichment time allotted for orangutans, the giant furry red primates native to Indonesia and Malaysia. (Orangutans, animals, using technology and apps, participles as adjectives.)
Intermediate
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Spooky Hotels
This warmer gets students scanning for information about haunted hotels, completing a table about them and using persuasive language to encourage other students to like their hotels.
Intermediate
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Crazy For Coffee
These days, when you are walking along the streets of southern Seoul, you are just as likely to smell the fragrance of fresh-brewed coffee as that of kimchi or more traditional Korean foods and a specially frothy kind of milk from New Zealand, great for cappuccinos. (Coffee drinking, business, Korea, Starbucks, role play: running a cafe).
Intermediate
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Sports Bill No Laughing Matter
Jodi Furman likes to joke that she should paint her minivan yellow. That's because she basically turns into a taxi driver in the afternoons and on weekends, as she delivers her three children to various sports practices in Palm Beach, Florida. But the bill for all those sports is no laughing matter. (Families, sport, do, play or go.)
Intermediate
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Famous Cities - London
This warmer is an enjoyable way for students to learn more about tourist activities in London.
Intermediate
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Olympic "Wild Card"
Spectators loved these very slow athletes at the Olympics. Find out why in this mini-lesson. (Rowing, swimming, Africa, Niger, Olympic games, Olympic spirit.)
Intermediate
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"Anna Grammar Worksheet - Quotation Marks"
An All Levels Punctuation Worksheet from Anna Grammar on when and how to use quotation marks.
Intermediate
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An Olympic Special - Olympic Cities - London
This warmer is an enjoyable way for students to learn more about tourist activities in London during the 2012 Olympics.
Intermediate
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The Olympic Torch
This warmer about the Olympics will help students practice reading for understanding and asking and answering questions.
Intermediate
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Famous Cities - Los Angeles
This warmer is a fun way for students to find out about the city of Los Angeles.
Intermediate
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The Best Place To Live
Vienna's excellent infrastructure, safe streets and good public health service make it the nicest place to live in the world, consulting group Mercer said in a global survey. Zurich was second, Auckland third and Munich fourth. (Cities and quality of life, discussion, complete the table, scanning, thinking carefully, ranking items.)
Intermediate
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Easter in different countries
This warmer is an interesting way for students to find out about others’ customs.
Intermediate
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Anna Grammar Worksheet - Reflexive pronouns
A worksheet for students to do by themselves.
Intermediate
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Photos Making Slow Way Home
In a large, bright room not far from the ocean that raged through this coastal Japanese city nearly a year ago, a handful of people with magnifying glasses pore over boxes of photographs of friends or loved ones. Photos lost or damaged in the 2011 March tsunami are slowly making their way back to their owners, thanks to the painstaking efforts of a team that cleans them of mud, dirt and oil. (Photographs, memories, disasters, the present perfect simple).
Intermediate
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Petsercise
The world's biggest food group Nestle has launched an online program inviting pet owners to team up with their furry friends to lose weight and an dog food advertisement especially produced for dogs, not their owners. (Business, obesity, pet owners, pet food, cats and dogs, "to" for purpose, proper nouns, role play and advertisements.)
Intermediate
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Animals
This activity encourages communication between students using speaking, listening and reading skills.
Intermediate
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Anna Grammar - Prepositions with Transport
An All Levels Grammar Worksheet from Anna Grammar that looks at transport and travel.
Intermediate
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That's Not Junk
One man's garbage is another man's riches, so the old saying goes. "University professor Jeff Ferrell is something of a U.S. urban Robin Hood, although what he gives away is not stolen but the result of dumpster diving. The professor of sociology looks through dumpsters and gives [most] of what he finds to the needy or to friends. (Reusing and recycling, waste disposal, vocabulary, true, false or not given, matching statements, second conditional, Trash or treasure Game, offering, requesting.)
Intermediate
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- Prefixes 4 - Position Prefixes
This worksheet looks at common prefixes which talk about position: that something is before or after something or under, between etc. something else. Knowing the meaning of a prefix can help you work out the meaning of a word.
Intermediate
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Famous Cities - Tokyo
This warmer is an enjoyable way for students to find out about the city of Tokyo.
Intermediate
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The Doll with the Dragon Tattoo?
The doll with the dragon tattoo? Mattel's latest collector's edition Barbie doll has pink hair and tattoos across her shoulders and neck. (Toys, Barbie dolls, role models, tattoos.)
Intermediate
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Famous Cities - Bethlehem
This warmer gets students scanning for information about a travel destination, completing a table about it and then sharing information in small groups.
Intermediate
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Hold the Pillow Mint
Hotel chains are delivering everything from yoga videos to recumbent bicycles to guests who prefer to work out their jet lag, or shape up for that business meeting, in the privacy of their rooms. "Probably fitness equipment is the biggest request we get from guests." (Hotels, fitness, conducting an interview, writing an email, scanning, present continous.)
Intermediate
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Famous People - Steve Jobs
This warmer looks at the former CEO and founder of Apple, Steve Jobs, who died on October 5 2011. It revises wh- and how questions.
Intermediate
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Abbreviations - AGW
This worksheet looks at abbreviations and their rules, use of periods and pronunciation. There are 2 exercises to do.
Intermediate
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Library Fines
The New York Public Library will waive the outstanding fines of up to 143,000 city children currently barred from borrowing new items on the condition they do one thing: read. Beginning on Monday, children enrolled in the library system's summer reading program will be able to knock $1 from their bill for every 15 minutes of reading they complete. (Libraries, debts, reading, describing a process, dialog and role play work.)
Intermediate
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Famous Cities - Paris
This warmer is an enjoyable way for students to find out about the city of Paris. Students will need to read for information then discuss, agree or disagree.
Intermediate
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Famous Cities - Auckland
This activity helps students learn about where to go and what to do in Auckland, New Zealand.
Skills: Discussing, agreeing and disagreeing, reading for information.
Intermediate
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Counting sheep?
Britons now prefer listening to lions roaring and monkeys calling to help them get to sleep, according to a new survey. Miss too much sleep and risk becoming mentally retarded. (How to get to sleep, research, health, brain, 'even if', 'even so' and 'even though')
Intermediate
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Mom Salary
Many U.S. mothers feel like single parents, whether they are married or not, and two out of three resent handling all the household chores even when they prefer their partners to stand aside, a new survey shows. (Mothers, jobs, occupations, stress, income, subordinate conjunctions, linkers)
Intermediate
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Natural disasters: Fire
This activity practises text organization and sequencing skills and helps develop confidence in working with unfamiliar texts. Students will become familiar with some words related to bushfires and learn facts about them. They will compose questions and then ask and answer questions using a text.
Intermediate
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-Prefix 3 - Size Prefixes - Worksheet
A prefix is found at the beginning of the word. It adds to the meaning of the word. Knowing the meaning of a prefix can help you work out the meaning of a word. This worksheet looks at some common prefixes which refer to size.
Intermediate
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"Despite" Anna Grammar
An Anna Grammar Worksheet looking at contrasting words "Despite" and "In Spite Of".
Intermediate
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-Prefix 2 - Number Prefixes - Worksheet
A prefix is found at the beginning of the word. It adds to the meaning of the word. Knowing the meaning of a prefix can help you work out the meaning of a word. This worksheet looks at some common prefixes which refer to numbers.
Intermediate
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Contrasting Words: However and nevertheless
When we write, we may want to show that two ideas are different. We want to stress the contrast between them. Two words that we can use to do this are however and nevertheless. This Grammar Worksheet has three exercises to practice.
Intermediate
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Soccer Originals
Read about the world's oldest football rules and the world's oldest soccer ball. How have rules changed in the last 150 years? What does the world's oldest soccer ball look like? (Soccer, active / passive, history.)
Intermediate
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Wacky Festivals
This warmer encourages students to think about different bizarre festivals.
Intermediate
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-Prefix 1 - Negative Prefixes - Worksheet
A prefix is found at the beginning of a word and adds to the meaning of that word. Understanding the prefix can help to work out meaning. This worksheet looks at some negative prefixes to express "opposites".
Intermediate
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Computers Can Harm Kids
One in every 25 teens reported an "irresistible urge" to be on the Internet, tension when they weren't online, or said they had tried to quit or cut down on Internet time, according to a U.S. study. Teenagers who spend excessive amounts of time on the Internet are one and a half times more likely to develop depression than moderate web users. (Pros and cons of the Internet, teenagers, inventions, modal verbs, persuasive speeches.)
Intermediate
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