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AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH - ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS #2 (Listening Activity)
Last year (2007), we were discussing the effects of global warming in class and we had already read many articles, listened to an interview with Tom Flannery and guess what? I�ve discovered that teenagers are not worried with the environment and the consequences of global warming upon it. So, I took two excerpts from the scene "The solutions are in...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 44
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Friends - "The One Where They All Turn Thirty" #2 (listening activity)
My students like "Friends" and what�s better to work with phrasal verbs and other structures from everyday English than the episodes of this sitcom? I showed the students only excerpts of the episode (check the script in the file) and it was perfect. it was the first time in my life I�ve seen students laughing during an evaluation! This is the sec...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 43
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The Devil Wears Prada - the movie (Listening Activity)
We were talking about jobs, job styles, job interviews and this movie is a great material to talk about these themes. I�ve used scenes nr 8 and 9. I hope you enjoy this listening activity! Send me your comments!
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 45
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Storytelling - scary spooky story (listening)
I was teaching my students the use of the past tenses in narratives, especially the Past Perfect Tense and the Past Simple and after working with a short scary story from a book, I decided to use another one as an evaluation. I�ve found the audio in the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P11fo00WLMM .
Unfortunately, there was no transcript, so...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 28
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PASSIVE VOICE - MEANING AND USE
I`ve created this activity to make students think about why the passive voice is chosen in some contexts - my intention was to show them it has a meaning and a function and not only a form.
They loved it!
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6
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Environmental Concerns - (Reading Activity)
I�ve prepared this reading comprehension activity based on the article "The Nightmare Scenario", an interview with Tom Flannery (Speak Up magazine, nr 242). I hope you�ll enjoy it!
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 3
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FRIENDS -
It�s another incredible Friends� episode. It�s great to discuss the difference between (scientific) fact and opinion, as well as to discuss the boundaries of our beliefs. I have included the script so that you can find the scenes, between Ross and Pheebs mainly, easily.
The title of the episode is "The One Where Heckles Dies".
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 12
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Biography - Noel Rosa
I was teaching biography and I decided to add something of our Brazilian culture. I wrote a short biography for Noel Rosa, one of the most famous Brazilian singers and composers - a remarkable name in the Samba tradition. I hope you enjoy it!
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 8
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Past stories - Past Perfect
A dialog exercise to practice the use of the Past Perfect Tense in alignment with other past tenses in a story in the past. It practices the use of subordination in the past.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6
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Idioms with numbers
One of the forms of measuring the importance of a subject in a culture is to check the role it plays in the production of new vocabulary items. This is what happens to NUMBERS. They have always been a valuable cultural asset in the English language � IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS departing from numbers are being used in contexts apart from the one of the m...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 21
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