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Topic-based worksheets 

Insurance
(2006) 

Public holidays: long weekend-short week
(2006)

Keeping your home warm and dry in winter

People at your door

Summertime
(2005)

Summer in the city
(2004)

Autumn

  • Target group: one-to-one and group
  • Level: elementary to intermediate.
  • Activities: reading comprehension, word association, cloze (poem), sentence matching, odd word out and word search
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 Around our homes

  • Target group: group and one-to-one.
  • Level: elementary to intermediate.
  • Activities: listening/close dialogue
  • Download (pdf 397kb)

Winter

  • Target group: group and one-to-one.
  • Level: elementary to intermediate.
  • Activities:word search, winter home safety tips, labelling winter clothes
  • Download (pdf 692kb)

Numbers in our lives

  • Target group: group and one-to-one.
  • Level: elementary to intermediate.
  • Activities: telling the time, practising phone numbers, word search
  • Download (pdf 143kb)

Communication technology

  • Target group: group and one-to-one.
  • Level: elementary to intermediate.
  • Activities: listening/close exercise re computers/website
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Xmas and New Year holidays

  • Target group: group and one-to-one.
  • Level: elementary to intermediate.
  • Activities: listening/close dialogue and questioning re Christmas/New Year holidays.
  • Download (pdf 911kb)

Sports and recreation

  • Target group: group and one-to-one.
  • Level: elementary to intermediate.
  • Activities: dialogue on Olympic Games; dictation about Labour Weekend; sports quiz for groups; sports-related web sites; a low level sports crossword.
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Socialising

  • Target group: group and one-to-one.
  • Level: elementary to intermediate.
  • Activities: listening/cloze dialogue about party invitations; a cloze dialogue related to parties; tea making; group quiz/discussion about social customs in New Zealand and in learner's country.
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Health in your lessons

  • Target group: group and one-to-one.
  • Level: elementary to intermediate.
  • Activities: Word search - parts of the body, Making an appointment with the doctor, Health websites to check out.
  • Download (pdf 397kb)

Finding our way

  • Target group: group and one-to-one.
  • Level: elementary to intermediate.
  • Activities: Finding places on a map, Dialogue between person who is lost and a person who is asked to help them
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New in New Zealand

  • Target group: group and one-to-one.
  • Level: elementary to intermediate.
  • Activities:Finding towns & cities in NZ on the map, advice for newcomers from newcomers
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Buying a house

  • Target group: groups, one-to-one and independent learners
  • Level: Post beginner and lower intermediate for group and one-to-one learning. Intermediate and upper-intermediate for independent learning and tutor assisted tasks relating to the story "Finding a home in Wellington"
  • Activities: Question and answer match. Word find. Reading.Conversation practice. Listening. Pronunciation practice
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The Treaty of Waitangi

  • Target group: groups, one-to-one and independent learners
  • Level: Post beginner and lower intermediate for group and one-to-one learning. Intermediate and upper-intermediate for independent learning
  • Activities: Story and comprehension questions. Word find. Pronunciation practice. Grammar and punctuation exercise. Word scramble.
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Keeping safe

  • Target group: groups, one-to-one and independent learners
  • Level: Post beginner and lower intermediate for group and one-to-one learning. Intermediate and upper-intermediate for independent learning
  • Activities: Memory game, word find.
  • Download (pdf 397 kb)

General resources

ESOL listening game : What's that sound? (groups)

20 resources

  • A handout to give your tutors some ideas on resources they already have or can make in ten minutes Download (pdf 397 kb)

Teaching tips for ESL teachers - Heide Spruck-Wrigley