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Tom Lehrer - Irish Ballad
Very funny song by math professor Tom Lehrer about an Irish girl who does her whole family in. Here are several different illustrated worksheets for different levels. The song is readily available on the Internet, Amazon, and the iTunes Store.
Level: elementary
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 2
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Tex Avery Cartoon - Symphony in Slang
This excellent cartoon by Tex Avery is a great teaching tool for upper-intermediate and advanced students because of its huge assortment of slang and idioms like being short-haned and raining cats and dogs. It is available here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot92Yfovvvg
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x45xby_mgm-cartoon-symphony-in-slang-1951_s...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 55
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Friends - One Where It All Began
Worksheet for "The One Where It All Began," from Season 1, Episode 1 of "Friends." I used the free font Gabriel Weiss� Friends Font for the titles.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 31
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John Denver - Rocky Mountain High
Very nice song by John Denver with easy-to-understand lyrics. I have the students fill in the blanks with words they think fit before playing the song.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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Basic Laser Theory (Prepositions)
Students try to find the missing prepositions. (Sorry about the background of the picture on the correction sheet looking black, but it prints out fine!)
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 9
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Extraverts Could Cause Problems on a Mission to Mars
This is both a speaking and a reading exercise with the discussion about introverts and extroverts and their suitability for a long mission to Mars leading into to reading the article from "Scientific American."
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7
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Short Answers
Short answers to questions are very complicated in English. Here is a summary of short answers and an interactive pairwork exercise that I extensively adapted, especially the practice part, where students have many, many choices in the questions that they ask.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6
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Tex Avery Cartoon - Red Hot Riding Hood
You can find this famous Tex Avery cartoon on several sites:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn7Su0A-inA (high quality)
http://video.google.fr/videoplay?docid=8039477657790445932&q=genre3Aanimation+tex+avery
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8039477657790445932#
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psGdL4md3Ig
With the students, you might g...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 30
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Colloquialisms 2
The list of common colloquial expressions came from an old British coursebook, but I made it into an exercise that is challenging, but not impossible for upper-intermediate and advanced learners. Here students have to match the questions with replies.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 38
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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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