Test Your Grammar Skills Sentence Building 5 Write six sentences using this word order: article noun verb (present continuous) preposition article noun For example: A man is swimming in the sea. Tip: don’t forget to start with a capital letter and put a full stop at the end!

Test Your Grammar Skills Using Modal Verbs 1 – Plans for the Weekend What are your plans for the weekend? Make a note in the boxes below of all the things that you might do, could do, should do, must do, can do and will do.

Test Your Vocabulary Skills Verbs and Synonyms 1 A synonym is a word or phrase that has either the same or a very similar meaning to another word or phrase. For example, ‘wash’ and ‘clean’. Look at the verbs on the worksheet and find a synonym for it.

Test Your Research Skills American English 1 Despite most of them having English as their first language, British and American people sometimes use different words to talk about the same things. Match the British English word on the left with the American English equivalent on the right.

Test Your Creative Writing Skills Write a Story Write a story of around 600 words, starting with the following sentence: Story Title: _________________________________ “It’s enormous!”....

Test Your Reading Skills Advanced Homophones 1 Example questions... Homophones are words that sound the same as each other, but have different spellings and meanings. Write an English word that sounds the same as each of these words: 1. heard ___________________________ 2. knit ___________________________ 3. carrot ___________________________ 4. air ___________________________ Comes with an answer sheet.

Test Your Spelling Skills Just Vowels - Oscar-winning Film Directors 2 Fill in the gaps to spell the names of ten Oscar-winning film directors: Examples 1. _ o _ e _ _ _ e _ _ o _ _ 2. _ o o _ _ A _ _ e _ 3. _ _ a _ _ i _ _ o _ _ _ o _ _ o _ a 4. _ o _ e _ _ _ i _ _ Complete with an answer sheet

Test Your Reading Skills The Girl Who Got Bigger and Bigger, by Matt Purland Reading Comprehension 1 Read the story and answer the questions below: example The Girl Who Got Bigger and Bigger, by Matt Purland There was once a girl who wanted to be grown up like her parents, so she made a special drink that would make her grow, and she did grow. She grew until she was as big as her parents, but she didn’t stop there. She kept on growing until her foot was the size of her house.... Example Questions: 1. How did the girl grow bigger? 2. How did her parents react to her growing bigger? Answers are included

Test Your Reading Skills The London Underground – Alphabetical Order Write these 30 London Underground (Tube) stations in alphabetical order: South Wimbledon Ealing Broadway All Saints Vauxhall South Woodford..... Comes complete with an answer sheet

Test Your Reading Skills Elementary Homophones 3 Homophones are words that sound the same as each other, but have different spellings and meanings. Put together the words that sound the same: road their waste sale write tide sew saw wear vain some tail tea too weak Examples 1. to ___________________________ 2. tale ___________________________ 3. rode ___________________________ 4. sail ___________________________ Contains a worksheet

Test Your Reading Skills North, south, east or west...? Using a map of the United Kingdom, find these places and answer the following questions: Example questions. 1. Manchester is to the north of London . . . true or false? 2. Newcastle is to the north of Edinburgh . . . true or false? 3. Cardiff is to the east of Nottingham . . . true or false? Answers included

Test Your Spelling Skills Read > Cover > Write > Check > Correct No. 1 – Days and Months To improve your spelling, read a word, cover it with your hand, then write it on the first line. Check your spelling. If it’s wrong, write it out again on the second line: Example words Sunday _________________ _________________ Monday _________________ _________________ Tuesday _________________ _________________

Test Your Spelling Skills Read > Cover > Write > Check > Correct No. 2 – Numbers 1-20 To improve your spelling, read a word, cover it with your hand, then write it on the first line. Check your spelling. If it’s wrong, write it out again on the second line: Example words one _________________ _________________ two _________________ _________________ three _________________ _________________ four _________________ _________________

Test Your Spelling Skills Jobs 1 Add some letters to complete the names of the following jobs: Examples... f _ r _ _ r s _ c r _ _ a r _ _ l e _ _ e r m _ _ a g _ r Complete with answers

Test Your Research Skills World Wide Web 3 Match the web address extension with the country that it represents. Answers included.

Information Gap 1 - Looking for a Job Get the students working in pairs. Give one person of each pair the Student A page and the other the Student B page. There are four different jobs being advertised in the local paper. However, there are ten gaps on each page. Students should ask each other questions to find out the information that is missing from their page, then write it down, asking for spellings as necessary. Encourage them to communicate verbally to get the answers, rather than letting each other look at their pages! When all the students have finished, bring the group back together and ask checking questions to elicit the answers, as well as to find out how much the students have understood about the other material in the adverts.

Test Your Speaking & Listening Skills Booking a Holiday 1 A) Discuss as a group: what does having a holiday mean to you? B) Look at the topics below. In small groups discuss each of them, and then decide: a) what you want from your holiday, b) what type of holiday you will take, and c) what other things you will need to consider 1. How to find a holiday 2. Type of holiday 3. Destination and weather.. etc

You could look at it directly as a presentation and discuss the different objects and activities being shown in each of photos. I have collected together some of my best celebration PowerPoints about New Year. This was contains both pictures of New Year and also a celebration writing prompt to encourage students to think creatively in their writing. In addition, I have included a teacher guide which explains how you can use these Photo Flashcards in 31 different teaching activities in the classroom. They are easy to organise, lots of fun and will improve your students vocabulary and memory skills. You could print off and laminate the photos to make an interesting, eye-catching display about New Year's Eve. The students could also take the laminated photos and sort them into different New Year's Eve activities. The students can then discuss what they think each one was saying or thinking. The photos could also be used as prompts for creative writing, factual writing or descriptive writing.

You could look at it directly as a presentation and discuss the different items being shown in each of photos. You could print off and laminate the photos to make an interesting, eye-catching display about World AIDS Day . The students could also take the laminated photos and sort them into different AID preventative ideas. The students can then discuss what they think each one was saying or thinking. The photos could also be used as prompts for creative writing, factual writing or descriptive writing.

17 Panda photos, complete with 31 different teaching activities and an animal writing prompt workbook. I wanted something teachers and students would enjoy together. The photos of the animals in the writing prompt can also be used for another 31 teaching activities on their own.