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Everyday Use Discussion Questions
Discussion questions to go with the beautiful short story "Everyday Use" by black American author Alice Walker. This short story is always a hit, even with my science and engineering students.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 13
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Who Owns the Zebra?
In this reading and discussion exercise, students try to solve this brain teaser in pairs. If students have trouble working out the answer, suggest they make a grid (like in the solution). (I got this brain teaser from elsewhere, but I changed most of the nationalities, all the drinks to healthy juices, and replaced their filthy smoking habits with...
Level: elementary
Age: 11-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 88
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I Love Lucy - Lucy Does a Commercial
One of the very best episodes of "I Love Lucy." Although recorded more than 50 years ago and in black and white, the show still brings laughter to students young and old.
The title font is TraftonScript, a free font which can be found on the Internet. This is the same one as used in the show�s opening. (Available on YouTube.)
The most importa...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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Ideal Job
I am always amazed at how much discussion this activity generates.
Students have to classify elements for a rewarding and satisfying job into 4 categories (essential, desirable, unimportant, and undesirable), and then discuss their choices in small groups.
Please note that this exercise was NOT stolen from "The Standby Book." (I am the author...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 9
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Stand by Me
A gap-fill exercise for a song which is ranked number 121 on Rolling Stone�s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. It was also the theme song of the 1986 movie of the same name.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7
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Black Adder - Born to be King
Is there anything with Rowan Atkinson that students don�t like?
From series 1 of this popular British sitcom.
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 12
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Haven�t Met You Yet
This dual exercise focuses on phrasal verbs and listening in Michael Bubl�s popular song. Have the students do the matching exercise first, then hand out the gapped lyrics and have them try to find words that fit in the gaps. (Many of the missing words are from the matching exercise.) Finally play the song so they can check their choices and fill ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 11
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Witness - 6 Characters
About 2/3s or 3/4s of the way through the film "Witness," distribute cards to the class and explain that this is their new identity. Give them some time to write questions they would like to ask other characters in the film while you go around giving help.
Then collect the role cards, and have the students stand up and walk around at a party. Th...
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 23
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Spin City - Miracle Near 34th Street
Considered one of the funniest moments ever on American TV ("TV Guide"), this is Christmas humor at its blackest. Santa not only loses his job, but gets into a fight, gets stuck in a chimney, and then dies, while the mayor sets the city�s Christmas tree on fire, all to prove to a young boy that Santa really exists. I used the font Matrix Bold for t...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 2
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Fawlty Towers - Gourmet Night
Here are listening comprehension questions for this hilarious episode of the British TV series, "Fawlty Towers."
I used the font Bookman for the title, the same as in the series titles.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 16
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