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...
View ArticleFamily Matters Role-Play
The pair role-plays presented in this handout will provide students with six problematic situations that they will have to sort out by giving advice and recommendations. All of the role-plays are...
View ArticleAdvice to Debbie - Writing Activity
This is a simple activity for pre-intermediate and intermediate students to develop their writing skills. It is required from the teachers to pre teach students how to write a letter, what a letter is...
View ArticleThe Man with No Money
The short reading passage is for the beginners. It has simple vocabulary and the practice of 'should' . It makes up an interesting reading and helps in further discussions and usage of simple...
View ArticleCould've, Should've, Would've
This slideshow is a great conversation piece for students to practice using modal verbs in the past tense. After they have been instructed on the grammar and structure of past modals, use this slide to...
View ArticleSong Worksheet: Show Must Go On by Queen
This worksheet can be used for practice modal verbs and present continuous. Song is not difficult for listening and children like it. This worksheet contains 3 tasks: 1) choose the right modal verb;...
View ArticleReview 5: Modal Verbs & Conditional Clauses (+Key)
A new ws suitable for advanced students to revise/reinforce grammar points. In this ws the students will revise modal verbs and conditional clauses. Thanks Phillip Martin for clipart. The key to the...
View ArticleHow 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,...
View ArticleModal 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...
View ArticleMovie 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...
View ArticleChristmas 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 four...
View ArticleConversation 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...
View ArticleAgony 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...
View ArticleGiving 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...
View ArticleCold 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...
View ArticleDear 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...
View ArticleReading 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...
View ArticleShould 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...
View ArticleSong 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...
View ArticlePersuasion 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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