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Welcome to the Resources Pages for Adult Teachers of English

Here are lots more support materials to download:

 
  General Mid Intermediate - High Intermediate
  Beginner Intermediate
  Elementary Upper-Intermediate
  Pre-intermediate Test Your Students' Memory
 


General
 
Teaching Vocabulary
How can teachers help their students learn and remember new vocabulary items? Find out here.

Using Dictionaries

Why is it a good idea to give students dictionary training? How is this best done? Find out here.

Making Your Life Easier with Wavelength
Setting up role plays.

Wavelength
 
Beginner
 

Time
An interesting worksheet on time, complete with teachers' notes.

Date and special occasions
A fun exercise practising vocabulary for dates and special occasions. Comes complete with teachers' notes. This activity has been adapted from Cutting Edge Starter.

Everyday Activities
Practise verbs for everyday activities with this photocopiable worksheet.

Past simple
How much do your students know about the past simple? Try our quiz and find out...
Taken from Classic Cutting Edge Starter Teacher's Resource Book.

Cutting Edge


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Elementary
 
Twenty Verbs
Are your students coping with the present continous? This fun word puzzle recycles 20 useful verbs and practises the present continuous. Click here for the teacher's notes. This activity is taken from Total English Elementary Teacher's Resource Book: click here for more information.

The Secret Word
A fun information gap activity to help your students practise giving descriptions. Taken from Pair Work 1 Elementary-Intermediate.
Pair Work 1

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Pre-intermediate
 
All about movies
A fun reading activity all about movies, taken from Total English Pre-Intermediate Workbook. For more information about the course, click here.

Phrasal verbs
Try this online activity with your Pre-intermediate students to practice useful phrasal verbs. This is one of many Elementary to Upper Intermediate level activities available on the Language to go companion website.

Opposites maze

Can your students find their way through the maze, using ten pairs of opposites? Taken from Vocabulary Games and Activities 1.
Language to go
Vocabulary 1
Giving Opinons
A fun worksheet focusing on Giving Opinons, using adjectives with –ed and –ing. There are also teachers' notes for this activity. This activity is adapted from Cutting Edge Pre-intermediate and Grammar Express
 


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Mid Intermediate - High Intermediate
 
'Internet Vocabulary'
Do your students know their 'dot.com' from their 'ISP'? Why not try this photocopiable worksheet with your intermediate students?
 
Collocations with 'high' and 'low'
Here is a new vocabulary exercise for your students exploring collocations with the words ‘high’ and ‘low'
 
Lesson Plan : Catherine and Francis
Something new! Here's a full lesson with reading and presentation by Vivian Shantz. You can use the reading to have students find the main topic and detailed information - then teach vocabulary, comprehension, pronunciation and phrasal verbs using the downloadable worksheets.
Vivian Shantz

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Intermediate
 

Reported Speech (Telling stories)
An interesting reading exercise based on reported Speech (Telling stories). Comes complete with teachers' notes.

Prepositions after adjectives
An interesting activity for Intermediate students using prepositions after adjectives. Click here to download the Teacher' Notes. This activity is taken from New Cutting Edge Intermediate Workbook. For more information, please click here.

Making all kinds of plans
A fun practice exercise for intermediate students, making arrangements for the future. Click here to download the Teachers' Notes. This is taken from Cutting Edge Intermediate Work Book New Edition, click here for more information.

Past tenses
An activity for intermediate students, practising the past tenses. Take a look at the teachers' notes. This is taken from Cutting Edge Intermediate Work Book New Edition.

Jungle Survivor
Why not try this fun Jungle Survivor game for Intermediate students? Download the photocopiables and click here for the teachers' notes.

The history behind the movies
This activity can be used to practise the Past Simple. Students will enjoy exchanging information to find out more about the true stories behind famous movies such as Titanic and Apollo 13. This photocopiable activity has been taken from Top Class Activities.

You and money
Give your students practice at using verbs with two objects in the context of a questionnaire about attitudes to money. Taken from Language to go, and extract written by Rolf Donald.


Define it
Practice defining clauses with this fun vocabulary game.
Download the photocopiable and click here for the teachers' notes.

Language to go
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Upper-Intermediate
 

Should, Shouldn't and Job Vocabulary
A worksheet for intermediate students, focusing on Should, Shouldn't and Job Vocabulary. There are also teachers' notes for this activity. Adapted from New Cutting Edge Upper Intermediate

Events and Celebrations
A challenging word puzzle practising vocabulary for Events and Celebrations. Click here to download the Teacher' Notes. This activity is taken from New Cutting Edge Upper Intermediate Workbook. For more information, please click here.


Are you left-brained or right-brained?
Try this quiz with your Upper Intermediate students. Download the worksheet, click here to download the teachers' notes, click here to download the audio.This activity is taken from Cutting Edge Upper Intermediate New Edition, click here for more information.

English Culture and Language
From the Atkins Diet to the iPod and to Jamie Oliver - try this quiz to test your knowledge of English Language and Culture!

Vocabulary Development
Download
this exercise and develop your students vocabulary. The perfect activity for exam students.To get the most from this activity, we recommend using a good monolingual dictionary such as the Longman Active Study Dictionary.

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Test your students' memory!
 

Download a PDF containing a glossary and exercise for words and expressions about memory with definitions and examples. Print the glossary and get your students to study the new words - give them a time limit. Answer any questions they have. Ask them to fill in the blanks using vocabulary from the glossary. They could do this in pairs or small groups. To check the answers, click here.
Now test their memory by taking away the sheets and seeing how many words they can remember!

From True Colors 4

You can also visit the True Colors Companion Website.

True Colors

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