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Telephoning Terms: Glossary
This glossary of <strong>telephoning terms</strong> is designed to provide you with a brief guide to the terms in current use. They are groupped according to headings which signify the use...
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Phone Home: Phone and Numbers Printable Worksheet
Worksheet to use as a warmer at any lesson about cell phones or technology. Example: If you are living in another country while you are studying, you will probably want to phone home a lot and talk to...
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The Cell Phone Age
This worksheet covers vocabulary, reading & discussion practice. Everyone seems to have opinions on cell phones and express them
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That's Gr8! Mobile Phones and SMS Worksheet
Most common SMS abbreviations - nice worksheet to get the students involved, if you're teaching a lesson about cell phones or teenagers etc. Activities: Match the SMS abbreviations with their...
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SMS English
The worksheet gives examples of abbreviations used in sending informal SMS messages or e-mails. For example, 2 can be used instead of two, too or to in tomorrow, hence 2morrow. Furthermore the...
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Mobile Telephones Word Search
This word search puzzle contains useful vocabulary used when talking about mobile telephones. Hope you find it useful. List of words used in this word search: MESSAGE, MOBILE, RING, MUSIC, GAMES,...
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Technology Tile Puzzle
This tile puzzle contains a phrase that is related to technology, so you can use this puzzle as a homework assignment before the lesson about technology. Have fun teaching! Secret phrase that your...
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Alexander Graham Bell Word Puzzle
This is a word search puzzle related to Graham Bell and telephone. Hope you find it useful for a lesson about telephones. Give it to your students as homework and then ask them to research how each of...
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Technology Worksheet
This is a simple worksheet for teaching technology related vocabulary. There are 3 different activities in which students are asked to name the devices by putting in the missing letters, match the...
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Names and Numbers: Telephone Role Play
This is a simple role play activity designed to get students to request and enquire basic information over the phone. They must spell and write down some basic information, but also practice polite...
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English Telephone Worksheet
A Business English telephone worksheet for pre-intermediate and above students dealing with expressions used both when calling and answering the phone, asking for repetition, stating reason for your...
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Turn It OFF: Poster
Classroom signs don't have to be lame, right? We've honestly tried to find a decent 'No cell phones' classroom poster/sign around, but after googling for 10 minutes all we could see was a bunch of...
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Talking on the Phone
This worksheet provides various sentences/phrases that may be used in a phone dialogue. I played the telephone game with my class as a warmer, and then we went over some phone vocabulary together....
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Speaking: Technology "SMS abbreviations"
Includes three different tasks. Intro: Tell Ss you are going to talk about technology. Ask them if anyone does not have a mobile phone. Mention that in US English they are called “cellular phones”,...
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Test for the Video "iPhone 4S"
The test is developed for checking students' understanding the video devoted to the features of iPhone 4S. Though the language of the video is difficult for elementary students the test is easy to...
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Discuss, Chat or Talk About... "Phones"
This a conversation style worksheet that should get your students talking about the subject of mobile phones. There are eighteen conversation questions on the sheet that revolve around the topic of...
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Personal Information Review
This worksheet will help students introduce themselves and others. They will review questions about personal information, the pronounciation of the alphabet in English in order to be able to spell a...
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Song Worksheet: Clouds Across the Moon by Rah Band
Nice activity on the song "Clouds across the Moon" by Rah Band. This is a good exercise to revise word order in questions. For more advanced students, they can also provide the other side of the phone...
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Technology Vocabulary
A worksheet to help us introduce the topic "Technology". It's a matching exercise: students have to choose the right word for each picture (of a technological device). It can be used in different...
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Song Worksheet: I Just Called to Say I Love You
A nice and easy fill-in-the-gaps worksheet to go through the lyrics of Stevie Wonder's memorable song, 'I Just Called to Say I Love You'. I usually present this song when I teach adult students some...
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Making Arrangements On The Phone: Useful Phrases
Are your students tired of the same old task of "matching 1-5 to a-e"? Mine were! I have created this activity for my pre-intermediate students by modifying a textbook exercise aimed to practice some...
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Reading: Texting Turns 20
This is a reading activity about "texting", which turned 20 in the end of 2012. It's a surprisingly good way to make students read, discuss the vocabulary and talk. There are a few questions about...
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Mobile Phones Reading Worksheet
This is a reading comprehension worksheet about mobile phones for intermediate students who are asked to read the text, answer the questions and write a small composition.
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Texting and IM Language Mix and Match
I find that most of the text book lessons are boring on their own so I try to spice things up a bit by making my own worksheets. Basically this is a mix and match worksheet for Elementary-...
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Reading Comprehension. Article. Are Mobile Phones Taking Over Our Lives?
This worksheet contains an article entitled "Are Mobile Phones Taking Over Our Lives?" and 5 comprehension questions. The article is basically about how diffrent is people's life with and without a...
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Mobile Telecommunication
Simple topical worksheet including discussion questions, a short reading exercise and a group speaking task. Based around the comparison of features and functions between mobile phones in the nineties...
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Business Telephone Conversation Role-Play
This is a business telephone role-play with eight situations where one of the students will have to act as a business client and another one a secretary. For this task students need to know the...
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Office Meeting
It's a role play activity, a telephone conversation and a follow up activity. The learners can be paired at random or they can choose their partners. The follow up activity allows the learners some...
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Inventors Who You Were Mistaken In
This lesson plan is designed to practice passive voice & inventions topic. It will also deal with the revision of previous lesson (passive voice + materials), as well as some of the irregular...
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Wordsearch - Communication Vocabulary
This is a simple wordsearch intended to serve as a pre-teaching lead-in or extension. My students enjoyed completing this as a lead-in to a reading comprehension task. Some of the words are backwards....
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Movie Worksheet: TED - Reporting Crisis via Texting
This worksheet is based on the TED talk by Erik Hersman "Reporting Crisis Via Texting." I created it for my Business English upper-intermediate group, when we covered the topic of crisis management in...
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Technology - Picture Dictionary and Reading Comprehension
The worksheet focuses on technology vocabulary. One exercise is to match the word with the respective picture. The second exercise is to try to identify the title for each extract. And the third...
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Teens and Mobile Phones Reading
This is a reading comprehension worksheet for intermediate students on the topic teens and mobile phones. Students are asked to read the text, say if the statements are true or false and support their...
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Conversation about Cell Phones
A powerpoint presentation about cell phones, there are some questions related with phone/mobile phones. It can be used for your conversation class. You might use this to learn about WH-question or...
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Reading Comprehension - Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell was born on the 3rd March, 1847. Teach your students some interesting facts about one of the most famous inventors of all time with this reading comprehension. Students read the...
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Reading Quiz
Students read the passage to recognize the main points of an argument. This argument is about having a cell phone. It describes the difference between Marcia's mom and Marcia's dad concerning buying a...
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Youngsters and Technology
My young students are always interested to read the 'up-to-date' reading materials. When I gave them this passage, I learned more from them than they did from me. I learned the 'up-to-date' texting...
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Emails and Phone Numbers (Business Cards)
This is a follow-up for my "At a party: meet new people" worksheet. I created 18 fake business cards based on the same celebrities so that my students can work on exchanging phone numbers and emails....
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Mind Map: Telephone Etiquette
This worksheet will give students the opportunity to write down their ideas on, for example, the correct way to answer a business telephone call, ending a call, dealing with problem calls, leaving...
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Mobile Phones Reading Comprehension Worksheet
This is a reading comprehension worksheet. Recommended for intermediate students who are asked to read the text, say if the statements given are true or false and support their answer by quoting from...
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Jeopardy: General Knowledge on the History of Communication
For intermediate - advanced students. I had a unit that was called "Communication Revolution" and made this quiz for them to play and to learn. I did not put the answers there (because I know them)...
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Telephone Phrases
This is a simple PowerPoint presentation compiled of common telephone vocabulary and phrases in English. Great for business students, general English and graduating high school students. Activity: 1....
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Song Worksheet: Mobile Phone
Song "Mobile phone" by İrish singer Richie Kavanagh is an amusing way to speak about mobile phones, practise new vocabulary and have fun. Students will have to listen to the song and fill in the...
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Movie Worksheet: Modern Family
This worksheet is good to do something different in your class. Your students can watch this episode of Modern Family and complete this worksheet. In this worksheet you will find different types of...
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Telco Game/Mingling Activity
This is a fairly simple telco lesson, mainly aimed at older teenagers and young adults. Students form groups of 3 to 5, and create a mini company, then devise and sell mobile phone plans (=cell phone...
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A Visit to the Doctor (Short Class)
This is a dialogue presentation that focuses on fun and versatile expressions and language that students can use both at the doctor and in life. Role plays based on the dialogues can be silly and fun,...
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Phubbing or Phone Addiction (Article and Activities)
You will find activities linked to phubbing (phone + snubbing), which is the practise of snubbing someone, using your phone. It starts with questions to get the students to speak, then a video from...
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