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This worksheet is a great way to get your students more confident with reported speech and reported questions.

There's a conversation with practice exercises. There's also a vocabulary-building exercise, so that students can move beyond 'said' and 'told' with words such as 'mention', 'reassure' and 'claim'.

The lesson rounds off with an exercise where students interview each other, and make a presentation using reported speech.

This worksheet is for intermediate-level students. It has lots of Business English, but will also be great for general-English learners.

How are your students on environmental issues? This two-page worksheet is great for advanced-level students.

This handout provides a balance of activities, including vocabulary building, reading, retelling and discussion questions.

This worksheet has been updated with new illustrations and a vocabulary quiz which you can use in the lesson, or the following week.

Apologising in a foreign language is never easy. This worksheet, however, should help ease your students' pain! There's a conversation with a gap fill exercise, followed by practice exercises, prediction, more conversations and a role-play game. Your students will learn new vocabulary, expressions, and how to accept an apology gracefully! This worksheet is for lower-intermediate students, but can be adjusted for other levels.

If you have students who need to be able to explain charts and graphs, this is just what you need. This handout has pages of bold pie-charts and graphs for your students to work with. They will learn to express percentages, fractions and trends. This worksheet is written for intermediate-level students, but you can adjust it for lower-level students. Note: This worksheet has lots of illustrations, and so will take longer to download than other worksheets. [750 KB]

This worksheet helps students use superlatives more accurately. The target structure is 'one of the best [people]', with students learning to use the plural correctly. There's a conversation, grammar practice, a fun quiz and more. This worksheet is written for intermediate-level students.

Newspapers and the TV news often feature stories about extreme weather. However, the language used can be a mystery to many students!

This worksheet has a jigsaw reading, plus collocation / idiom work and discussion questions.

It's great for higher-level students.

Looking for a lesson to start off 2023? This is just what you need!
Based around a new year theme, this worksheet looks at 'interested in', 'worried about' 'afraid of' and much more.

After a lead-in, there's a gap-fill conversation, with practice exercises to follow. The lesson rounds off with your students using the target language about themselves.

This worksheet is written for upper-elementary to pre-intermediate classes.

It makes a great start to the year!

Are beach holidays all the same? Do your students dream of escaping another tourist trap, and doing something more worthwhile?

This worksheet looks at some alternatives to the standard package tour holiday. How about a wine-tasting course, or learning to take better photographs?

This worksheet has a reading, vocabulary work, role play and discussion.

It's great for higher-level learners.