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      CLIL Science: Threats to biodiversity

      Submitted by chrisbaldwin on 10 December, 2010 - 15:20

      This activity is a jigsaw reading based on a text by the UK Natural History Museum, available here.

      Average: 3.5 (43 votes)
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      What's the question?

      Submitted by veronateflteacher on 7 July, 2010 - 17:26

      This is a pair-work reading, (speaking) and grammar-based activity for elementary students. It mainly practises question formation, reading comprehension and the ability to identify and correct factual mistakes in a text.

      Age: Teenage/adult

      Level: A2+

      Timing: about 40 mins

      Average: 3.3 (79 votes)
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      Gerunds and infinitives: Farmer Jones and his wife

      Submitted by TE Editor on 1 July, 2009 - 12:58

      This activity looks at the problem of whether verbs are followed by the gerund or infinitive.

      Average: 3.4 (102 votes)
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      A Reading Task and Role Play

      Submitted by TE Editor on 19 September, 2008 - 17:57

      Here is an activity to challenge the students' reading skills at intermediate level and give them controlled speaking practice in a role play. The learners have to put a jumbled conversation into the correct order and can then act it out in pairs. The conversation takes place in a Travel Agent's.

      Average: 3.1 (162 votes)
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      Easter reading

      Submitted by TE Editor on 15 April, 2008 - 07:53

      This is a simple reading task on the theme of Easter in the UK. It helps students learn about how this time is celebrated in the UK and reflect on special occasions in their own culture.

      Average: 3 (72 votes)
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      Newspaper reading activities

      Submitted by TE Editor on 22 November, 2002 - 12:00

      Newspapers are a useful tool in the ELT classroom for improving reading skills and enhancing students' knowledge of current affairs.

      Average: 3.7 (79 votes)
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      Text quickies

      Submitted by TE Editor on 22 November, 2002 - 12:00

      Here are two text quickies that I like to use with my learners to prepare them for reading or to follow up on a text they have read.

      Average: 3.3 (35 votes)
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      Reading aloud

      Submitted by TE Editor on 22 November, 2002 - 12:00

      These activities describe different ways you and your students can read text aloud in order to develop your students' feeling for the music of the language.

      Average: 3.6 (29 votes)
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      The spending maze

      Submitted by TE Editor on 22 November, 2002 - 12:00

      This is an integrated reading and speaking activity for intermediate (or higher) level students. They make decisions in pairs or groups with the aim of spending one million euros.

      Average: 4.1 (34 votes)
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      Lexical Approach Classroom Activities

      Submitted by TE Editor on 22 November, 2002 - 12:00

      These activities are only available as a download because they are fairly long and provide full reading texts. They are related to the article - Lexical Approach 1 - - What does the lexical approach look like?

      Average: 3.8 (26 votes)
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