Here are two stories in which Trevor, Martin and Lena make resolutions but with varying degrees of success. Students read the passages and answer the questions and hopefully learn something about making resolutions that helps them while making their own. Thank you!


NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS CONTRASTING STORIES

A one page worksheet with a gap fil exercise to practice the use of present simple and continuous with four exercises to do. Answers are included. Hope it helps and wish you all a wonderful New Year.

NEW YEAR'S EVE PRESENT SIMPLE OR CONTINUOUS

This is an easy RC activity about "Boxing Day" that includes a task to boost vocabulary and a task about have to/has to/had to. Students read the text, complete a passage with the missing words, and complete some sentences with the correct verbs. Key included.

Have to /Had to - Boxing Day

A lively A1–A2 New Year’s reading (matching countries to the tradition) worksheet with global traditions,SIMPLE PAST practice, true/false, comprehension, discussion, a word search, and a gap-fill activity.

Fun Reading: New Year's traditions- Simple Past

This material will be useful and helpful for teaches who prepare interesting tasks for the lessons before Christmas, want to use Christmas vocabulary and revise grammar.

Merry Christmas! (Beginners and Elementary)

A worksheet that identifies the reasons why people around the world make resolutions at New Year. There are a number of exercises with case studies of sort. Please edit and use as most suitable. Happy New Year to you. 

WHY WE MAKE NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS

This worksheet has a section to study the construction of Present Continuous in Indicative, Negative, and Interrogative forms. It includes a table to show contractions as well. Students will study the construction, then complete the exercises. This worksheet includes solutions.

Present Continuous Worksheet

This worksheet has a section to study the construction of Present Simple in Indicative, Negative, and Interrogative forms. It includes a table to show contractions as well. Students will study the construction, then complete the exercises. This worksheet includes solutions.

Present Simple Worksheet

A worksheet to show that New year dawns at very different hours around the world. There is some reading followed by detail questions and reflective short answers too. Please edit as needed and wish you a lovely New year.

NEW YEAR AROUND THE WORLD TIMELINE

The students will learn short answers to the questions which asked with auxiliaries or modals. Thy will understand the difference between wh- questions and these kind of questions. It can be used as a classroom poster with A3 size. The worksheet also contains a 10-question work. 

Short Answers (Auxiliaries + Modals)

Watch the clip and listen to the video. Then answer the ABCD questions, then pick the right summary of the song. Afterward match the target words to their definitions. 

Kindness is a Gift - Practice A2 level words with music

Teacher divides the students into a's and b's and gives each a photo accordingly. Students then work in pairs and describe the photo, students must not show the photo to their partners. The worksheet contains some useful words and a tip to help students describe the photo.

Describe the photo 58

If you travel a short way along the coast from Eastbourne, you come to another seaside resort, Hastings. If this doesn´t remind you of anything, travel inland to Battle. Both places are connected to a great event in British history.  Students get to know the Battle of Hastings and answer questions about it. 

1066 - a memorable year in British history

Used with a unit on how facts are different from opinions. Students look at example writing about Scottish bagpipes discuss if they agree or disagree with the opinion. Play a you tube clip or bagpipe music. Then have a class discussion about what they think of it.

Opinion/Persuasive text writing prompts

This is an easy reading comprehension activity with a couple of tasks to boost vocabulary. Students read the text, choose the correct options in the sentences, find synonyms, and answer the questions.

Easy reading - Mr. Bean has a broken leg

Write a short story or dialogue about your pet’s superpower. How do people react? Does your pet help you or make your life more difficult? 

Try to be creative. You can make your story exciting and funny. Try to write 40 to 80 words. Then you will present your writing to the class or group.

My Pet is a Superhero!

This is an  activity that helps students revise the use of WILL and WON'T. Students complete the text with the missing words, complete some sentences with will/won't and the verbs in brackets, and finally do a writing task. Key included.

Future with WILL / WON'T - Back from the future

Describe the photo 60 (Adjectives)

Passage 1: Australia's cane toad problem (Paper 08/2023 – computer 11-12/2025)
Passage 2: A Brief History of Humans and Food (computer 09-12/2025)
Passage 3: The Pirahã people of Brazil (computer 11-12/2025)

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