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Unusual Uses for Ordinary Things - Instructables

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Unusual Uses for Ordinary Things - Instructables

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Your house is full of hidden treasures and everyday items with the potential to be so much more. In this collection of 24 Instructables, you will learn unusual ways to use everyday items such as tennis balls, cheap vodka, nail polish, tea bags, coffee grounds, and medicated chest rub. From using the cheap vodka as a window cleaner to chucking a couple tennis balls into the dryer to fluff up your towels, we've got the advice to help you save money, save time, and make the most of what you've got. Let us help you use your stuff. Unusually.
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Unusual Uses for Ordinary Things: Your house is full of hidden treasures and everyday items with the potential to be so much more. In this collection of 24 Instructables, you will learn unusual ways to use everyday items such as tennis balls, cheap vodka, nail polish, tea bags, coff...

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Spin the wheel https://wordwall.net/resource/132083/english/irregular-verbs

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Wordwall - Create better lessons quicker

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know, find, choose, go, be, write, understand, get, have, hear, bring, tell, give, break, drive, eat, send, sell, put, wear, cut, fall, feel, speak, read, leave, keep, think, teach, take, become, keep, begin, let, see, build, pay, run, mean.

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know, find, choose, go, be, write, understand, get, have, hear, bring, tell, give, break, drive, eat, send, sell, put, wear, cut, fall, feel, speak, read.

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Back-to-school
Take register + Basic rules (phones, noise, respect...)

What do you know about... ? 2 mins in pairs. Elicit / Drill how to make Qs and Find: name, age, BDay, where they were born, where they live, something about summer holidays, fave subject at school, like English 1-10, crazy/random Qs...  Report back. Change pairs.

Guess my... If I have kids, like spiders, where I'm from, my favourite dish, if I have pets and how many, what I like doing in my freetime, where I've been this summer... Get in pairs/groups and make a list of Qs and guesses. In turns, make me Yes/No Qs or Wh Qs to check their guesses. Points for those who guessed the most.

Race. In pairs/groups, 2 mins to write a list with as many words you can about (3 topics): things in the class, summer holidays, back to school... e.g.: study, wake up early... Then, swap lists, report and cross out repeated words, the one with the most not-repeated words, wins.

Your turn. Write your guesses about your partner, e.g. I think you like... I think you don't like... I think your favourite sport is... I think you like +ing in your free time... I think you love/hate/are interested in English... (set of Qs: don't show to your classmates!) Talk together! Where you right? Tell me about your classmate.

Draw your tablet/smartphone (version of draw your hand):

battery % How much you like English (be honest!)

Your apps (4/5) e.g. Whatsapp, games, dictionary, IG...

Show each other. Ask about those (why, what do you do, how often...?). Report to the class.

If they have none, draw their ideal phone/tablet

Baamboozle about me https://www.baamboozle.com/game/506585 - https://www.baamboozle.com/game/476688

Cambridge Kahoots https://create.kahoot.it/profiles/e3927ab0-6646-47fb-8e7e-0bfa77403437 (laptops / tablets in teams)

XO spelling (Movers-Flyers vocab) Only 1 shot to spell correctly

Revision: booklet BC5 (site or PDF) unit 7 hierogliphs

Scratch in pairs: About me project

Tell parents to install Word Fun World app

See resources on The Cambridge Teacher site

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Ideas for posters to decorate: Xmas wishes and messages https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Classroom-Posters-Fun-Winter-Christmas-Quotes-Watercolor-3431504

Santa Tracker rhttps://santatracker.google.com/

Draw so cute Xmas https://www.youtube.com/@DrawSoCute

Christmas lesson https://www.onestopenglish.com/young-learner-topics/young-learner-festivals-christmas/154409.article

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These posters are a super cute way to share your love for winter and/or christmas with your students, family and friends!

Inside you will find 50 posters. Each poster includes a motivational/fun winter-themed quote and a watercolor clip art image. These posters will look super cute hanging in your classroom - or even your home! You can also use these posters as: student gifts, teacher gifts, binder covers, planner inserts, and SO much more!
Important Notes
→ This file includes posters with cursive writing

→ This file includes many Christmas quotes/designs
Check out the FALL/HALLOWEEN set by clicking → HERE
View the preview to see if these poster will work for you.
YOU MAY ALSO BE INTERESTED IN: CLASSROOM SET ONE CLASSROOM SET TWO READING SET SCIENCE SET WRITING SET MATH SET WOODLAND ANIMALS POSTERS
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Classroom Posters - Fun Winter & Christmas Quotes (Watercolor)

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These posters are a super cute way to share your love for winter and/or christmas with your students, family and friends!Inside you will find 50 posters. Each poster includes a motivational/fun winter-themed quote and a watercolor clip art image. These posters will look super cute hanging in your ...

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Sports personalities https://yougov.co.uk/ratings/sport/fame/all-time-sports-personalities/all

What has just happened? https://en.islcollective.com/english-esl-video-lessons/grammar-practice/general-grammar-practice/present-perfect-simple-tense/despicable-me-3-trailer-present-perfect/10932

The Grinch https://en.islcollective.com/english-esl-video-lessons/embed/84806

Ordinal numbers https://www.udocz.com/apuntes/40866/ordinal-numbers

Suspense music https://youtu.be/EcLZE4KVc_E

Gallery ambience sounds Youtube history

Starry night 3D virtual experience: what did you see? how did you feel?

Sounds London City https://youtu.be/DNR1zyr5Go4

Sounds in the gym https://youtu.be/7gX0WdgaaNU Guess!

Sounds in the city: https://youtu.be/YF3pj_3mdMc What is it? What can U hear?

City vs countryside? https://youtu.be/EdUs8jA7AHk  1. Take notes 2. Would you rather live...?

Leopards in Mumbai (Where's Mumbai? India Wild animals in the city? Why?)

Rainforest sounds https://youtu.be/8myYyMg1fFE

The Mayans: https://youtu.be/VtJK6AStK50

Minions https://youtu.be/Rtk9n7OkpEY

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Reading music | Thriller and suspension or mystery book | Atmospheric or dark | 1H | Agathe Christie

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Especially helpful are exercises that are focussed on a theme or topic as these provide word retention practice so you can be confident to read, write, speak and listen successfully.

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A2 World Around Us | Cambridge A2 Flyers Exercises and Activities

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Especially helpful are exercises that are focussed on a theme or topic as these provide word retention practice so you can be confident to read, write, speak and listen successfully.

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Unit test 1 MJ 10/10/2023 (LX 16/10/2023)

Flyers RW

Flyers L

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Activate Cambridge One, Emily? (The Cambridge Teacher site). Is there an online platform for them like BlinkLearning?

Very important:
Keep a vocabulary record in their notebooks: list with sample sentences, mindmap type, word cloud, sketch... They choose

Scratch in pairs: use vocab + design an app: instructions to use it install - download - click - turn on...

Warm-up (Top-Down processing): Go round with the ball / Word cloud / Baamboozle pretest-teach-test
Unit 7
SB

1. 09/05/2023 Google Earth to visit different cities:

1. Make a list cities around the world 2 mins S-S; the list with the most cities not-repeated! wins the point + SB act. 2

2. Let's take a walk and describe/ Miniproject in 3s, with computers, choose a city and list 5 top things/places you can do/visit as a tourist. Google it + present it!

3. Play dice draw/mime/describe taboo - Phonetics spelling XO tophonetics

2. 18/04/2023 In pairs: tell each other sth

1. You have to do or must do (external / inner obligation)

2. You needn't do or don't have to (unnecesary)

3. You should do or ought to (giving advice)

4. Clarify MFPA during observations

5. Spin the wheel and ask arroung flippity

3. Do AB 83 + 82 on the board

4. Unscramble vocab, XO spelling, Pictionary, Taboo... Dice: mime, describe or draw... Create their own crossword or wordsearch.

23/02/2023 Revise Key test W with pictures:

1. write a sentence (Present S or cont; then Past S or cont.)

2. Add linking words

3. Add time sequencers

4. Add some expressions, adjectives, adverbs, exclamations... (!) (?)

5. Revise SP and GR

6. 07/02/2023 Review 65 + SB 64+ test next day 9th Feb (AB pp. 63 + 64 for the test - grab their AB to check at home or in class or else copy): lost of practice related to the test

7. ISL passive minions https://en.islcollective.com/copy-edit/765853

8. Would you rather...? Real English in London https://youtu.be/uKD1lrQeUMU h Would you rather...? I'd rather + i / I prefer TO... CCQs and MFPA

9. (book closed) Video Ancient Olympics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGggDSBvLXs Note down the sports you see/hear

10. (books open) SB+AB pp. 34/35

11. If time... Ss sketch or draw a word/sentence/scene and put it up in the corkboard as an art gallery: the rest guess (story line written on the back of the piece of paper)

12. Listening AB p. 37

Irregular verbs: pick your copy

5 mins to test each other in pairs - 2 teams 2 captains on the board (I stand between them, say a verb and they have to write past simple-past participle: 3 rounds, 5 verbs each. Winner?

Modal verbs https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/study-break/photo-zone/what-is-it? MAY/MIGHT/COULD

Boardwork PASSIVE (PRESENT SIMPLE) e.g. (books closed - Slides)

Kids play basket in the park . Basket is played in the park (by whom)?

She sings a beautiful song every morning. A beautiful song is sung before the car race starts.

Diferences/similarities: subject vs action. Passive subject (agent - by-) is unknown, unimportant or obvious.

Google pics

Video (note down keywords, e.g....)

vocab (show more on Google) + play definitions back to the board (buzzers/bell) or in teams they make up 3 definitions for 3 items

AB
1. SS come to the board to do tasks
2. Draw in pairs taking turns and guess / Pictionary on the board
3. Task + Say She/He is wearing... The rest guesses who she/he is talking about.

Break or end of the lesson

Word Fun World app

Describe-mime-draw (with dice). In teams.

XO: spelling / XO Present Simple +-?...

Put to a vote 1-2-3 words/expressions they want to remember/difficult: corkboard (post-it) and big colourful letters in the notebook

Pictionary on the board: 2 teams at the same time.

Self-made bingo with unit Vocab

Draw a mindmap with drawings about the topic to put on the corkboard

Venn diagram: winter/summer clothes

Dress your guy (dice, in pairs): 1-6 shoes, cap, T-shirt, shorts, scarf, gloves

Mingle (music): when the music stops, pair up back to back and say what your classmate is wearing. Repeat.

Google bizarre looks in fashion shows for kids. Pick one and try to describe it: present to the class (laptops/tablets)

Scratch

BC6 Missions

XO spell!

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© British Council The United Kingdom's international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. A registered charity: 209131 (England and Wales) SC037733 (Scotland).

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© British Council The United Kingdom's international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. A registered charity: 209131 (England and Wales) SC037733 (Scotland).

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What time is it? https://www.baamboozle.com/game/1691156 * https://www.baamboozle.com/game/69918

Wordwall https://wordwall.net/es/resource/37678274

Every/Some/Any/No compounds indefinite pronouns https://www.baamboozle.com/game/343055

Causative have/get https://www.baamboozle.com/game/472682

Guess movie https://www.baamboozle.com/game/686195

Superheroes https://www.baamboozle.com/game/887222

Superpowers https://www.baamboozle.com/game/510589

Pretty cities https://www.baamboozle.com/game/226673

https://www.baamboozle.com/game/18237 Cities

So / Such https://www.baamboozle.com/game/111960

Giving advice https://www.baamboozle.com/game/1012269

Emoji feelings

https://www.baamboozle.com/game/643484 Feelings

https://www.baamboozle.com/game/819266 Jobs https://www.baamboozle.com/game/473585 Movies https://www.baamboozle.com/game/192341

Emoji Quiz guess the word https://youtu.be/RJIrhTKIHtY Kahoot https://create.kahoot.it/share/the-emoji-quiz/491c6e95-8c93-408a-9075-c7468c8e14fd

Tag Qs https://www.baamboozle.com/game/29722

Would you rather...? I'd rather + i... because... https://www.baamboozle.com/game/329799

Guess the food https://www.baamboozle.com/game/73263

Future plans (going to) and arrangements (-ing)

https://www.baamboozle.com/game/61259

At the doctor's

What's wrong? https://www.baamboozle.com/game/563352

Translate: https://www.baamboozle.com/game/520055

Present Perfect

https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5f4418daec8638001bb5e29a?source=quiz_share

FOR / SINCE https://www.baamboozle.com/game/63498

Irregular verbs https://www.baamboozle.com/game/153981 / https://www.baamboozle.com/game/52252

Passive Present Simple https://create.kahoot.it/share/present-simple-passive/113afa02-2a62-48a7-922e-a163ebeb5629

Sports https://www.baamboozle.com/game/957863 - https://create.kahoot.it/share/sports-play-do-go-esl/b45c3e01-a560-4ea1-84b0-677d135ef527

First conditional

https://www.baamboozle.com/game/168094

https://create.kahoot.it/share/first-conditional/99d878d1-8f25-4777-b86f-913b48f3d6d4 (shared devices)

Odd-one-out

https://www.baamboozle.com/game/265165

Zero conditional https://www.baamboozle.com/game/56734

Future Tech

https://www.baamboozle.com/game/1204302

Icons https://www.baamboozle.com/game/2476

Cambridge Kahoots https://create.kahoot.it/course/bea89ab7-274c-4c94-aae6-7060bf738a74

Fabrics and more https://www.baamboozle.com/game/329172

CLOTHES clothes https://www.baamboozle.com/game/316610, https://www.baamboozle.com/game/1166804

Present Simple https://www.baamboozle.com/game/875

Present Simple Qs https://www.baamboozle.com/game/860900

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Join a game of kahoot here. Kahoot! is a free game-based learning platform that makes it fun to learn - any subject, in any language, on any device, for all ages!

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https://worldoffun.cambridge.org/flyers

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Everything you need for the 2018 revised Flyers. This is the 'go-to' place for test top tips, resources, and official preparation materials.

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Are you wearing (clothes)... ? Yes, I am / No, I'm not
Are you a (jobs) ?
Are you (emotions) ?
Do you work (places: in an office, police station, garden, school...? Yes, I do / No, I don't

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Dimmi Domanda is adapted from an idea I saw on The Language Gym (a great resource for this kind of thing!). Using DimmiDeck, or even scrap paper on which the students have written or drawn the relevant vocabulary, students practise question forms and short answers in a simple, fun and frantic card collecting game. Great for kids and teens!

What You Need

1x Deck of DimmiDeck Cards - choose at least 15 or 20 pairs of jobs ideally. (The vocab topic can be adapted based on your class, but for this explanation we'll use jobs as the topic).

Setup

Choose a question form that you want to practice and marry it with one of the vocabulary topics included in the DimmiDeck. Good examples could be 'are you a... Doctor/Fireman etc' or 'are you wearing...' and so on. Some more ideas are provided in the notes section below.

Lesson Plan

1. Refresh the students knowledge of the necessary structures for the activity. For this example we want to practise 'are you a... (job)' and the short form answers yes I am/no I'm not. You could also use the same vocabulary topic for 'do you work in a school/hospital/police station' if appropriate or desired.Recycle also the jobs vocabulary if necessary using the cards.

2. Deal the cards out to the students evenly. Tell them that the goal is to collect as many cards as possible.

3. Model an example for the class. You ask the student 'are you a...' and then a job. For example, 'are you a doctor?'. If they have a doctor card, they reply 'yes I am!' and give you the card. Then you can ask again. If they don't, they reply 'no I'm not' and it's their turn to ask.

4. Once each student has had the chance to ask and take cards from their partner they must walk around the room doing the same task with all the other students in continuation until somebody runs out of cards.

It's a good idea for the teacher to get involved in this game. Kids usually get quite frantic running around trying to ask everybody for their cards and trying to avoid answering questions for fear of losing theirs. This is all well and good, but to really be able to monitor effectively you should involve yourself and make sure to have an exchange early with each student if possible, and offer them on the spot correction. You can then sit back and monitor as a group to ensure the correction has been taken on board.

Notes

This game can be great for getting kids to practice their question forms and short answers, and you don't even need DimmiDeck to do it (although we'd argue it adds a lot to it!). Simply choose vocabulary that fits the structure you're looking to teach, and have the kids write the words or draw the images on bits of scrap paper.

Some ideas...

Do you...? Yes I do/no I don't using sports and activities
Can you...? Yes I can, no I can't using sports, musical instruments etc
Have you ever...? Yes I have, no I haven't using destinations, extreme sports, strange food etc

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Dimmi Domanda is adapted from an idea I saw on The Language Gym (a great resource for this kind of thing!). Using DimmiDeck, or even scrap paper on which the students have written or drawn the relevant vocabulary, students practise question forms and short answers in a simple, fun and frantic card collecting game.

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ESL Interactive Fun Games

Here we have the games carefully laid out for you. Follow the links to browse the variety of games offered. This is only the directory for interactive games and exercises. Our ESL fun games here include : Snakes and Ladders, Hangman, Spelling games, Wheel of Fortune, TV Games(Betting Game), Mazes, Memory Games, Matching exercises, Sequencing exercises, Picture Quizzes, Catch it and more. These games provide the ultimate fun in practising the following skills:

Games for Practising Grammar: Present simple/present progressive games, past tense games, present perfect games, comparative/Superlatives and more...

Games for practising English vocabulary: Lots of games by topics and game types

Games to practice English pronunciation, phonetics and phonics.

Games and exercises to practice reading, spelling and lexis

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ESL Classroom Jeopardy Verb Tenses, Past Simple, Future, Perfect

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ESL Interactive Fun Games Here we have the games carefully laid out for you. Follow the links to browse the variety of games offered. This is only the directory for interactive games and exercises. Our ESL fun games here include : Snakes and Ladders, Hangman, Spelling games, Wheel of Fortune, TV Games(Betting Game), Mazes, Memory Games, Matching exercises, Sequencing exercises, Picture Quizzes, Catch it and more.

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The Treasure Map story

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Play some word games to learn and practise directions vocabulary.

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Cómo usar "still, yet & already" en inglés

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Examples

Remember!

We can use the present perfect to talk about experiences in our life. We often use 'never' for negatives and 'ever' in questions.
My brother has met his favourite singer.
I have never seen an alien!
Have you ever climbed the Eiffel Tower?

Be careful!

If you say when your experience was, we use the past simple. If you ask for extra information about someone's experience, we also use the past simple.
I've been to India. I went there two years ago.
Did you like it? Yes, it was very interesting!

We say... We don't say...
My grandma has visited many countries. (NOT My grandma visits many countries.)
We have never tried pizza with chocolate. (NOT We never tried pizza with chocolate.)
Have you ever given your teacher a present? (NOT Have you ever gave your teacher a present?)

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We can use the present perfect to talk about experiences in our life. We often use 'never' for negatives and 'ever' in questions. My brother has met his favourite singer. I have never seen an alien! Have you ever climbed the Eiffel Tower? If you say when your experience was, we use the past simple.

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English Exercises - Learn English with ESL Activities

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A collection of exercises for grammar, vocabulary, verbs, listening, reading, phonetic symbols and more. You can also access worksheets, audio stories, videos, and songs related to English.

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Prepositions song https://youtu.be/xyMrLQ4ZI-4
Where's the monkey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idJYhjGyWTU&list=PL12CYIrRqIrUAjPDc3LDT66MUuU8O_Aaz

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Past Simple

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Do you want to practise using the past simple of the verb to be in English?

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Prepositions of place - directions | in front of - across from - between - on - behind

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Play a word game to learn and practise prepositions of place vocabulary.

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Present S.
Present C.
GOING TO (plans)
Past S.
Present Perfect
Past C.
There is/are
WILL (future predictions)

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(Very Easy) Telling The Time in English + Click To Learn

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SB + AB photocopies + Grammar Reference
My Home Booklet
Tests: basic, standard
TRB - Resource Bank
Test generator
Cambridge booklet Flyers
Teacher Support Pack
World of Better Learning

Vocabulary: mindmaps / draw / colour / invent / write sentences