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How to Fight Pollution
It is a writing task about pollution. Students have got a few prompts, questions and images.They can use their science knowledge about the danger of pollution and the modal verbs, such as can/could,...
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Modal Verbs Grammar Guide and Exercises
This is a worksheet for teaching modal verbs at intermediate level. There's a complete grammar with clear and simple explanations as well as example sentences followed by a simple activity in which...
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Movie Worksheet: TED: 3 Things I Learnt While My Plane Crashed
The worksheet is based on a thought-provoking TED talk by Ric Ellias "3 Things I Learnt While My Plane Crashed." I created it for an upper-intermediate group, when we reviewed past modals. It led to a...
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Christmas Problems
Speaking activity. 'Imagine you are a radio presenter, Marie, and you have a programme to give your listeners some advice. This week- Christmas special! Welcome your listeners, tell them about the...
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Conversation Activity- Dilemma Discussion
Very good activity to make your students talk and debate in the classroom. Speaking and writing skills are developed in this simple and fun activity, this worksheet can be done individually or in...
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Agony Aunt Letters and Giving Advice
In this activitity there are 14 letters of desperate people looking for advice. They have written to Agony Aunt Anne and are waiting for an answer .Can you help them? Use any suitable modal verb. You...
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Giving Advice Phrases and Situations (Healthy Lifestyle)
This worksheet contains different phrases for giving advice and short role play situations for using them while talking about Healthy Lifestyle. Divide the ss into 2 groups. Cut out the situations for...
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Cold 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...
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Dear 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...
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Reading 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...
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Should 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...
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Song Worksheet: Using Modal Verbs
This is an intermediate worksheet aimed at giving students a revision of modal verbs by means of a short listening activity. The worksheet includes the lyrics of two contemporary songs. Students aged...
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Persuasion and Dissuasion
This activity is suitable to intermediate and advanced students in practicing how to persuade and/ or dissuade the other person. It is better done as a role playing activity. This will motivate...
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Should - Shouldn't Drilling
This worksheet is aimed at students who already know a little bit about structure and functions of modal verb should affirmative and negative. It is composed of 4 activities. The first 2 are filling...
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Modal Verbs and Phrases
The following activity will help your students practice modal verbs and phrases. It should be completed in pairs. Students A and B have gaps in different sentences. As Student A completes his sentence...
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Do You Have Any Advice?
This presentation introduces how to give advice using the modal forms could - should - and must as well as to suggest and to recommend. I had ss work in pairs or small groups to come up with ideas for...
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Tipping Guide: Speaking Modal Verbs Practice
This NYC tipping guide is taken from the research of Waitbutwhy.com, original available here http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/04/everything-dont-know-tipping.html. I used the chart to start a discussion...
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Modal Verb Practice (Elementary Level)
The worksheet contains three activities about modal verbs. The first task is complete the sentences. Use can, can't, could or couldn't. The second task is the same but you have to use can, can't,...
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Should and Shouldn't
The worksheet is designed with problem sentences for learners to be practising "should and shouldn't". It is followed by a quiz where paired students have to choose between two answers to a given...
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Modals-Modals Perfect
This is a powerpoint presentation of modals and modals perfect for esl B1-B2 level. There are no grammar rules, only examples and pictures that better explain the use of modals. A teacher can use the...
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Modal Verbs - an Introductory Lesson (B1, B2)
It's an introduction to modal verbs - first some basic rules, then the rules for forming past (not all modal verbs have separate forms for past, some use perfect infinitive - in my experience it is...
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Advice Column: Penny Pincher
Students read the advice column. Teacher can guide students through new vocabulary, idioms and expressions. There are discussion questions at the end, but teacher should feel free to ask more...
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Reading- Should, Should't Have to, Don't Have To
This worksheet contains a reading comprehension exercise about smoking and the consequences it has for someone's health. It also has some grammar excercises to complete using should ,shouldn't, have...
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Never Again! Shudda Stayed at Home
This worksheet is to practise talking about regret while working on the pronuncation shudda (should have). Students start by reading a review of gig, then they have to identify at least ten problem....
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Test
Here you will find exercises about modal verbs and vocabulary from compound nouns and other that can be very useful for teachers and students. This can be used as a worksheet or as a test for your...
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Modal Verbs and Emotions
A test for emotions and modal verbs for 8th grade students. It contains grammar exercises and some activities matching emotions with pictures. Some exercises of completing sentences and gap...
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First Aid Kit PowerPoint
This PowerPoint deals with some vocabulary items that we can find in a first aid kit, such as ice pack, thermometer, bandages, etc. It follows with some questions about when we should use these items,...
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Modal Verbs
This worksheet contains brief explanations of each modal verb (can- have to- must- should) and some graphic examples that illustrate each of them. There are lots of exercises to practice. You can use...
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Song Worksheet: Green Eyes by Coldplay
This is a song that I used to introduce the modal verbs "must", "should" and "could". Students are asked to first complete sentences with the words they listen to (only modals) and then they are asked...
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Song Worksheet: White Flag by Dido - Relationships
Thia worksheet will allow students to start a debate about painful relationships and broken hearts. First, they have to spot the extra word in some verses and then guess the meaning of some idioms...
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Modal Verbs Review Quiz Game
This is the first time to upload my file here. This is a PPT for modal verbs review quiz game. Each row in the second page means the level of the question and you get different points for correct...
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Talk about Illnesses
This worksheet is about illnesses. It contains two activities. First, the students are asked to complete the sentences using common problems, such as sore throat, backache, stomachache, etc. Secondly,...
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Selfie
Let me present you my handout on the topic of the last years – a selfie. This lesson gives your students an opportunity to talk about something they do every day - especially young learners can’t...
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Modal Verbs
Modal verbs and their usage cause lots of problems to our students. I hope that with this ppt they will be able to understand not only what modality is but also when they can use one or another verb....
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Had Better Practice
This worksheet was created to help students practice the use of had better. There are six situations which should be solved by the students. You can edit the worksheet so you can use it with other...
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A Visitor from Abroad
This worksheet gives students an opportunity to practice their models of obligation and recommendation while practicing airport vocabulary. Students start off with a conversation and then talk about...
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Movie Worksheet: Should Have, Would Have- Discussing Mistakes
This fun video activity is to practise using past modals "should have.." and "would have..." to discuss past mistakes. The video describes the top ten stupid mistakes made by people. Learners should...
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Test- Grade 8
This is a test for grade 8. The answer key is included. Here you can find questions about some grammar like simple past and the past continuous tense. Also there are some questions about suggestions...
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World Heritage Site Rules
This worksheet can be used in conjunction with other World Heritage Site activities. In groups, students use imperatives, 'must, and 'should' to create their own rules for visitors to World Heritage...
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Song Worksheet: These Boots Were Made for Walking
This is a listening song worksheet. Your students will hear how people sound when they speak English through a song. There is a list of the special contractions and uniquely pronounced words at the...
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Should and Shouldn't Exercises
This is a simple worksheet which practices the use of 'should' and 'shouldn't'. The first activity is a gap fill and the second activity asks students to write sentences according to the situations...
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Should/shouldn't
Students in turn take cards and ask for advice from the rest of the group. For example, 'I want to improve my English. What should I do?' Students could challenge each other's advice to make the...
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My Classroom Behavior - A Modals Worksheet
A worksheet to be used at the beginning of the schoolyear. It may help the students about the teacher's expectations during the English lessons. A way to revise modals with an easy fill-in-the-blank...
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Are All Endangered Species Worth Saving?
The worksheet is based on the video that discusses the problem of animal extinction and human role in preserving wildlife and includes vocabulary in Ukranian. The video puts forward controversial...
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Should And Shouldn’t For Giving Advice
This worksheet lets students practise the use of “should/shouldn’t” for giving advice. Students need to complete the sentences with “should/shouldn’t” and a verb from the list to create meaningful...
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Classroom Rules Game
This is a game in the form of a presentation. You can choose the number of the image by drawing lots, or put the numbers in a hat and pull out one by one. The game can be displayed on the screen of...
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Tips To Be More Productive At Work
This reading comprehension exercise is based on an article from The Guardian newspaper. It's aimed at students preparing for a technical degree, or adults working in the field of Human Resources. It...
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Modal Verbs (present forms)
This presentation aims at practicing different modal verbs (present forms). Students complete the sentences with the necessary modals and check their answers themselves. It's thematic and...
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Giving Advice: Health
This YouTube video-based lesson contains lots of visuals for talking, telling, and retelling stories. Vocabulary building, warm-up, listening and discussion questions, fill-in-the-blanks, and a...
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Should (A2-B1) - ESL Pals
This lesson is for A2-B1 ESL students and details using the modal verb “should.” The worksheet explains the theory before presenting three detailed tasks where students can practice the rules and...
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