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            Speaking Activity: Social Media Dangers Find Someone Who 
            
            This is a speaking activity in which students go around the room and try to find classmates who have experienced any of these ten dangers of social media. When finished, discuss as a whole class what the students discovered.
The two pages are the same, enabling you to print two on one sheet of paper from the print options.
             
            Level: intermediate 
            Age: 12-100 
            Type: activity-card 
            Downloads: 14
            
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            Speaking Activity: Making Driving Safer 
            
            After a tragic crash in which a young driver from our region was killed, I decided to create a lesson about how driving can be made safer. In groups of 3 or 4, students are given 20 safer-driving suggestions, and their job is to speak English with their partners and rank them from best to worst. This lesson is ideal for students who are just starti...
            
             
            Level: advanced 
            Age: 16-100 
            Type:  
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            Let�s Talk About Music board game 
            
            This is a very straightforward board game on the topic of music, suitable for higher-level students. You can edit the questions as you like. It�s generally best for three or four students per game board, and you�ll need some game pieces and a dice for each board. 
             
            Level: advanced 
            Age: 12-100 
            Type:  
            Downloads: 24
            
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            Family Find Out Who 
            
            Type: Full-class mingle
Ability: Elementary
Time: 30 minutes
This is pretty self-explanatory. I usually start off by drawing my family tree, and it might be helpful to have the students do the same before beginning, as it�s not always easy to count off cousins and aunts and uncles off the top of your head.
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            Level: elementary 
            Age: 7-100 
            Type: activity-card 
            Downloads: 4
            
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            Thanksgiving Complaints: What should we do? 
            
            This full-class mingle exercise is a fun conversation activity for after explaining the Thanksgiving Holiday.
Elicit the following words:
cranberry sauce
stuffing
gravy
pumpkin pie
turkey
mashed potatoes
green beans
Hand out the cards, one per student (there are 18 here; you can print doubles for extra students). Make sure everyone und...
            
             
            Level: intermediate 
            Age: 10-100 
            Type: activity-card 
            Downloads: 16
            
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            Talk and Trade - Restaurant Complaints 
            
            As with �Talk and Trade: Telephone,� these cards might be considered �Micro Role Plays�- they take very little time to set up, and every student ends up doing several of them. In this one, students make various complaints to their waiter or waitress in a restaurant.
Full class mingle. Time: 10-15 minutes
             
            Level: intermediate 
            Age: 10-100 
            Type: activity-card 
            Downloads: 12
            
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            Talk and Trade: Telephone 
            
            These cards might be considered �Micro Role Plays,� in that they take very little time to set up, and every student ends up doing several of them. In it, students pair up for short role plays of many different telephone situations. When they�re finished with one partner, they pair up with a different partner and continue with a new situation.
Wh...
            
             
            Level: intermediate 
            Age: 9-100 
            Type: activity-card 
            Downloads: 12
            
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            Who Are You and What Do You Know? #3 - A Man in a Bar 
            
            A man entered a bar, asked the bartender for a drink, and left much happier than when he came in. Why?
This is the third in my series of "Whodunit?" conversation games, based on lateral-thinking puzzles. In this one, there are 13 character cards, although the game can be played with as few as 9 students.  (Two sets of cards are here in case you ...
            
             
            Level: intermediate 
            Age: 11-100 
            Type: activity-card 
            Downloads: 18
            
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            Instant Conversation #3 - Clothes 
            
            The is the third in a series of "Mad Lib"-type role plays I call Instant Conversations. In it, the students write the answers to simple questions, using vocabulary they�ve recently learned - not realizing they�re creating something for the upcoming role play. In the Clothes Instant Conversation, the students are designing a very unusual item of clo...
            
             
            Level: elementary 
            Age: 7-12 
            Type: lesson-plan 
            Downloads: 9
            
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            Instant Conversation #2 - Car Sale 
            
            The is the second in a series of "Mad Lib"-type role plays I call Instant Conversations. In it, the students write the answers to simple questions, using vocabulary they�ve recently learned - not realizing they�re creating something for the upcoming role play. In the Car Sale Instant Conversation, the students are designing very unusual automobiles...
            
             
            Level: intermediate 
            Age: 9-100 
            Type: lesson-plan 
            Downloads: 15
            
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