A simplified explanation of Bonfire Night / Guy Fawkes Night with a multiple choice quiz. 1. As a straightforward reading activity with a quiz. 2. As a communication exercise. To use as a communication exercise, cut the story in half. Split it between partners. Students must read the story and try to remember the information. Then take the story away. The students must try to tell their partner what happened in their story. Give the students the quiz. Half the answers they will know from their half of the story, half from their partner´s story.

Information Exchange about the history of Bonfire Night and Guy Fawkes - students have to work in groups of 5 to answer their questions. +A fun worksheet with a quick description of the history. Work on comprehension & vocabulary.

Picture it! A game based on Pictionary. Picture it! is a game based on Pictionary. Students learn new vocabulary and cooperate to conceptualise a new word. You’ll find another worksheet with extra cards and a dice (due to space limit). Feel free to comment and suggest! Enjoy! +Dice for Picture it! game

An authentic reading material based on an article taken from "Time." The article is about the history of the most popular social network - Facebook. You can make it both reading and listening (if you read it out to your students, or record yourself, which I did - that was fun experience). The comprehension part contains multiple-choice, T/F questions, open-ended questions and vocabulary part.

Romeo and Juliet This worksheet tells the story of Romeo and Juliet in the present simple. There are two reading comprehension exercises and two grammar exercises.

Romeo and Juliet summary- reading comprehension

A card game (36 cards) The idea is to guess what the Christmas words are and to get points. How to play the game Student A takes a card from a pile and reads it aloud. Students B and C try to guess the word. The one who guesses the word first gets the card (= one point). Student B takes the second card and A and C try to guess. Then student C takes a card, and so on. At the end of the game all the points are counted. The winner is the one with the most points. The game can be played in bigger groups, too: A, B and C are the teams then. Have fun!

This worksheet contains a text on "Money" and five activities to practise this topic. Answer key is included.

This worksheet contains a text on "Money" and five activities to practise this topic. Answer key is included.

Christmas Jokes :)

Christmas Jokes :)

Reading Comprehension test for Christmas. Vocabulary exercise; ordering sentences according to the text; Multiple choice on the first two paragraphs of the text; sentence completing on the last two paragraphs and, finally, a checklist for the reading tasks.

Some short lesson/activities

Reading Comprehension test for Christmas. Vocabulary exercise; ordering sentences according to the text; Multiple choice on the first two paragraphs of the text; sentence completing on the last two paragraphs and, finally, a checklist for the reading tasks.

Christmas - 5 second rule - card game. How to play this game: Students take cards and must name 3 kind e.g. 3 Christmas songs. If they can´t do it, the card is given to another player who must answer it, but without using the words given by the previous player. The winner is the person with the biggest number of cards.

Cut them out and enjoy guessing with your students!

A WS including vocabulary, which concerns people´s character features. It is made on the basis of graphology (analysis of handwriting).

Article and questions from BBC news accompanied by vocabulary and comprehension exercises. The article is not too difficult, even for younger teenagers.