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Protecting famous places
Italy tightens its security at famous places. (Famous places, the Tower of Pisa, passives, comprehension, ranking activity, writing a poem.)
Pre-Intermediate
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Anna Grammar Worksheet - Quantifiers (UpInt)
Quantifiers (quantity words) are words that describe different amounts of things i.e a lot of, lots of, some, any, few, a few, a little, little, many and much. This worksheet has some rules and some practice for Upper-Intermediate students.
Upper-Intermediate
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Fish Soup And Buffalo Racing
Hungary's fish soup festival and Thailand's annual water-buffalo racing festival help preserve something special. (Hungary, Thailand, festivals, conservation, working with unknown words, completing a table of information, discussion, present simple tense: uses and spelling.)
Upper-Intermediate
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Anna Grammar Worksheet - Present Perfect (PreInt)
A Pre-Intermediate worksheet with three exercises which looks at the main uses for the present perfect simple.
Pre-Intermediate
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Madagascar
Madagascar, which lies off the eastern coast of Africa and is home to thousands of species of animals found nowhere else on earth, has been severely damaged by a cyclone. (Madagascar, the environment, cyclones, disasters, Present Simple or Present Perfect Simple, used to or am used to.)
Upper-Intermediate
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'Articles: A, An or The' - Anna Grammar Worksheet
An Elementary Grammar Worksheet with exercises on the use of articles.
Elementary
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A Girl's Best Friend
For centuries diamonds have lured women up the aisle; in future they may drive them to work as engineers find a use for the precious stones in electric cars and other applications. Industry officials say the uses for diamonds are multiplying and advances in synthetic production have opened the floodgates to ever more innovative applications. (Diamonds, jewelry, industry, electric cars, comparing information, completing a table of information, matching names and definitions, passive.)
Advanced
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Listening Cloze
This ice-breaker gets students listening, reading and writing at the same time and hearing examples of the past perfect.
Pre-Intermediate
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Keeping the river flowing
The Jordan River is heavily polluted with sewage and is in danger of drying up after decades of conflict and intense agricultural use, environmentalists say. (Environment, agriculture, natural resources, religions, the Middle East, rivers, answering true or false questions, comprehension, cloze reading, reported speech, direct speech, team quiz.)
Upper-Intermediate
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Anna Grammar Worksheet - Modals & Have to (PreInt)
A Pre-Intermediate worksheet and explanation of how we use modal verbs in different ways: to say that something is necessary, possible or to give advice.
Pre-Intermediate
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What Must I Do...?
Students hear about someone with a lot of serious problems. They listen, take notes and then give some strong advice!
Pre-Intermediate
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Have You Ever Milked A Goat...?
This lesson warmer or additional grammar exercise gets all students using the present perfect.
Intermediate
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"Anna Grammar Worksheet" - Past Continuous (Elem)
This Elementary Anna Grammar Worksheet looks at three uses of the past continuous tense.
Elementary
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Running over with Happiness
Dean Karnazes is 42-years-old and loves running - he often runs all night. R. Laurence Macon is 67 and sometimes runs 7 marathons a week. He runs while he works. (Marathon running, hobbies and free time, introductions, matching and discussion, making questions, comprehension, present simple, be, checking information.)
Elementary
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World's Largest Lesson 2005
All Level Lesson - WLL 2005.
Governments are doing far too little to remove unexploded bombs and landmines. Landmine Action said not only were children being killed and maimed as they unwittingly played with the brightly colored unexploded bomblets from cluster bombs, but land and antitank mines were slowing postwar aid delivery and development. (Landmines, world's largest lesson, postwar development.)
Intermediate
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I'd Like To Say Thank You...!
This Warmer practices speaking and saying thank you in a formal situation, using appropriate business English language expressions. It reviews verb patterns - verbs that take the infinitive. It gets students to listen for correct information, to practice listening to connected speech, and to practice listening and gap filling.
Intermediate
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"Am / Is / Are" - Elementary Worksheet
This Anna Grammar Worksheet looks at the use of am, is and are.
Elementary
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Food For Stairs
People who eat fruit, vegetables and dairy foods may not have problems with walking or climbing stairs when they are old. (Healthy diets, foods, old age, mobility, discussion, true or false, comprehension, possessive adjectives, questionnaire.)
Elementary
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Get To A Chair!
This Warmer get students to review lexical items and to categorize words. In this case, to review which nouns are countable and which are uncountable.
Elementary
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Back in Fashion
"We want gold to be contemporary, something that is young and people want to possess, to wear," says Bobby Godsell, chief executive of South African mining house AngloGold Ashanti, which last year mined six million ounces of gold worth $2.6 billion (1.4 million pounds). Gold is claiming more of the traditional markets for objects of desire. (Gold, luxury items, making choices, predicting from the text, comprehension, cloze reading, understanding figures, persuading someone.)
Advanced
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It's Mine, It's Yours
Revision of possessive pronouns and adjectives and pronunciation of pronouns and adjectives, using pair crosswords.
Elementary
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Mustn't and Don't Have To
Anna answers a question about mustn't and don't have to.
Intermediate
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Where Do They Go
This Weekly Warmer gets students to practice listening and reading at the same time, while discussing rules for definite and indefinite articles.
Elementary to Pre-Intermediate
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Anna Grammar Worksheet - Past Simple - Elementary
Anna Grammar presents a Past Simple Worksheet for Elementary students.
Elementary
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Sentence Snakes - Infinitive of Purpose
This warmer encourages students to think about word order, and gets them to move around and talk to each other.
Elementary
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Ethical Education
An Indian teenager fooled governments, the media and even the president into believing he had topped the world in a NASA science exam. Canadian university students cheated on an ethics course. (Dishonesty, plagiarizing, examinations, understanding the main idea, answering true, false or not given questions, describing past habits and routines, writing a questionnaire.)
Upper-Intermediate
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Using Past Tense for the Present
It isn't often that Anna uses the phrase "vestiges of the subjunctive", but she does in this answer to why we use the past tense in sentences like "I think it is about time we left," and "Isn't it about time you did your homework?"
Intermediate
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Roman Chariots in England
Archaeologists have found remains of a chariot racing track in Colchester. 8,000 people probably watched chariot races at the track. Archaeologist, Philip Crummy thinks the track is one of the most exciting things he has found. (History, chariot racing, archaeology, the Romans, brainstorming, comprehension, true or false, reading for understanding, comparative adjectives and superlative adjectives.)
Elementary
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Escaping a Date!
You're on a date, it's a disaster but there's no way out. A mobile phone company in Australia has a service offering an escape. All you have to do is dial three numbers and then hang up. The company will call you back a minute later with a perfect excuse to get you out of there. (Dating, relationships, quiz, predicting from the headline, reading for gist, crossword: telephone words, reading for understanding, functional language: making excuses, dialogues, have to and should.)
Pre-Intermediate
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What are you going to do this weekend?
This warmer encourages students to talk about plans, and learn about each other.
Elementary to Pre-Intermediate
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What Were You Doing...?
This Warmer can be used at most levels to practice describing actions (using the Past Continuous).
Elementary
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Worksheet - Present Continuous - Elementary
Anna has put information and exercises about the Present Continuous in this worksheet for Elementary students.
Elementary
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Making/Taking A Decision
What is the difference between: "make a decision" and "take a decision" and when should we use them? - Bola, Germany
Intermediate
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Finished?
What's the difference between "are you finished" and "have you finished"? - Eva from France
Intermediate
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Gossip Session
This warmer encourages students to think about word order, move around and talk to each other, and gossip about famous people!
Pre-Intermediate
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Worksheet - Present Continuous: Spelling
Anna Grammar gives a quick guide to spelling Present Continuous verbs. A worksheet for Elementary students.
Elementary
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Real Music by Real Musicians
Forget manufactured pop. After suffering a surfeit of Reality TV shows that propelled instantly forgettable stars into the charts, British music fans have had enough. Durability is the new buzzword as the British music business hands out its annual awards after a buoyant year. (Music trends, manufactured bands, popstars, make a choice, understanding the main idea, guessing words from context, presenting a summary, phrasal verbs, giving an opinion.)
Advanced
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A B C
Max takes a look at the history of A, B and C!
Intermediate
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When and While
Can you tell me how to explain the difference in meaning of 'when' and 'while'. It seems that often we can use either one.
Intermediate
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Skateboarding Online
A skateboarding priest is a YouTube hit and women in different countries are now skateboarding. One woman has started www.skateboardmom.com. (Sport, comprehension, complete the table, word order, true or false, the present continuous: is/am/are, extra reading.)
Elementary
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Give me and Give to me
"Give me the book," and "Give the book to me," are both correct. What other verbs can be used in both these ways - with a 'to' and without?
Intermediate
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The Harvard School of Love
Over 35? Still looking for Mr. Right? Feeling left on the shelf? Perhaps it is time to repackage your assets, take a hard look at your personal brand and start telemarketing yourself. (Finding suitable marriage partners, business jargon, predicting, understanding the main idea, gap fill, true, false or not given, used to + base form and be / get used to + noun or gerund, information sharing, dating agency activity, discussion.)
Advanced
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Fish Finds True Love
A stressed-out spotted fish in a British aquarium has calmed down after finding its perfect match... a look-alike plastic dice. (Compound adjectives, singular and plural forms, writing a comic strip)
Intermediate
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Present tense for the future
a. We won't have to share the apple pie.
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b. We won't have to be sharing the apple pie.
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a. When are you having exams?
b. When do you have exams?
Intermediate
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Follow Me
This is a great warmer to get students laughing and one that you can vary a million times!
Elementary to Pre-Intermediate
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Worked/Been Working
"I've worked here for a year."
"I've been working here for a year."
If there some differences, what are they? What are the clues to note to distinguish one from the other?
Intermediate
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Calling a person 'it'
Wolfie answers a question about why we sometimes call a person 'it'.
Intermediate
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'No Better Than' and 'Not Better Than'
"Please comment on the differences between 'no better than' and 'not better than'."
Intermediate
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New Year's Resolutions
This warmer encourages students to talk about future intentions by making resolutions. It's a good warmer for New Year's Eve.
Intermediate
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Talking Digitoys
Toys are changing fast, not least because their vocabulary is increasing, fast! New toys have computing power that makes them completely different to toys of even 10 years ago. There's even a doll that can read! (Toys, computer chips, children's development, scanning, writing definitions, identifying viewpoints, summarizing, discussion.)
Advanced
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