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  Target Vocabulary: Adjectives       
  Title: Strong Adjectives  
  Level: Intermediate  
  Description:

This crossword is a great way to build intermediate students' vocabulary. It teaches some stronger (polite) adjectives which are common in everyday conversation.

Vocabulary taught includes: hilarious, tragic, dire, boiling, freezing and so on.

 
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  Target Vocabulary: Halloween  
  Title: Halloween Crossword  
  Level: Intermediate  
  Description:

This Halloween crossword should keep your students busy. There are sixteen Halloween-related words for your students to puzzle over. It's a great way to fill some time near the end of a lesson. Alternatively, you can set it as homework.

For intermediate levels, but can be easily adapted.

 
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  Target Vocabulary: Writing Occupations       
  Title: A Writer's Crossword  
  Level: Upper-intermediate / Advanced  
  Description:

This advanced crossword has lots of vocabulary connected with the art of writing. How many of these occupations do your students know?

Great for filling half an hour in a lesson, or simply as homework.

 
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  Target Vocabulary: Shopping Vocab / Phrases       
  Title: Grocery Shopping  
  Level: Pre-intermediate  
  Description:

Great vocabulary building with shopping for groceries as the theme. As well as new language, there's also a chance to practice useful phrases for the supermarket.

 
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  Target Vocabulary: General       
  Title: Prefixes  
  Level: Intermediate to Advanced  
  Description:

Great vocab building for higher levels!

Are your students familiar with words like underachieve, reconsider and discontinue? Would they describe British food as overcooked or underdone? Find out here!

 
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  Target Vocabulary: Office / Business    
  Title: Office Two-Person Crossword  
  Level: Elementary to Pre-intermediate  
  Description:

A double target worksheet. The grammar point is 'used for' for explaining. (e.g. glue is used for sticking things.) There's also lots of good office vocabulary. Students work in pairs, though if you're teaching a one-on-one class, you can always take one part.

 
  Crossword
  Target Vocabulary: Shopping  
  Title: Shopping for Clothes  
  Level: Pre-intermediate  
  Description:

Role plays and vocabulary!

Great vocabulary and phrases for lower levels, with lots of scope for practice. Real life English: escape from endless grammar practice with this!

 
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  Target Vocabulary: Computers / Internet     
  Title: Computer Crossword  
  Level: Intermediate  
  Description:

If you have students who are into computers, or need to be able to talk about it for their jobs, this crossword will come in handy.

Some of the clues are easy, while others are quite challenging. This should keep your students occupied for twenty minutes or so, allowing you to have a breather...

 
  Crossword
  Target Vocabulary: Travel     
  Title: Airport Vocab Builder  
  Level: Lower-Intermediate  
  Description:

This worksheet practices lots of vocabulary for travelling. We have two versions: this lower-intermediate one, and another for more advanced students!  

 
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  Target Vocabulary: Past Simple Irregular Forms  
  Title: Irregular Past Crossword  
  Level: Elementary  
  Description:

Irregular Past Simple Verbs: Crossword Puzzle.

Well, it's kind of vocabulary! A good one for either homework or the last twenty minutes of a lesson. Not quite as easy as it looks!

 
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