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Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language? Here's a worksheet that will help you review the use of Simple Past and introduce the use of Present Perfect through a short bigraphical text about the famous British singer Ed Sheeran. This reading comprehension activity is followed by a listening comprehension exercise based on a video that brings Ed Sheeran talking about how practice and perseverance are what really matters when mastering abilities. Last but not least, there's a fill-in-the

This is a great activity to scan what EFL/ESL (A1/A2 CEFR) students know about the past simple before you start revisiting it. Studnets will probably feel curious about what happened to James and Betty in this Taylor Swift song, which tells about a high school love affair that went wrong. We start naming some things that will appear in the song and then focus on verbs in the past. After the lyrics are complete, we read about the meaning of the song and students are given the task to write a dia

It includes two ( A1/A2 CEFR) writing activities with instructions, guide and rubrics: one about routine and one about last vacation. These are the slides of a congress presentation about what formative assessment really is and how it can be effectively used in class. You can use it to review these concepts and see some concrete example of how to use it in an ESL class or to share this information with your peer teachers. It comes with a summary about how to present each slide.