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Poorer but happier
A comprehensive activity worksheet on the themes of work, money and quality of life. In the role playing activity you can replace the shop owner by a businessman if you wish. Questions can also be added in the "test part" to help the pupils comment on the documents. These pictures can also be dealt with in a role play activity
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 73
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The Hollywood production code
As we were going to the movies to watch Bringing Up Baby, I wanted my pupils to know more about the Hollywood production Code as the film is full of symbols and metaphors used to avoid censorship from the studios. They were really surprised and interested. I also brought other examples, such as Hitchcock�s Notorious or Some Like It Hot for instance...
Level: advanced
Age: 15-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 20
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Cultural Identity
I borrowed 2 extracts from the printable
http://www.eslprintables.com/printable.asp?id=242034#thetop
and added another excerpt + questions and activities
What is interesting to analyse is the change in the narrator�s psyche. In another extract, the narrator realizes that Chinese cities have changed names and that change echoes her personal inner...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 27
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Days of Waiting (1) - Script
Steven Okazaki�s "Days of Waiting" is a poignant documentary short film about Estelle Ishigo, one of the few Caucasians to be interned with 110,00 Japanese Americans in 1942. The script is the voice over reading one of Estelle Ishigo�s letters to a friend in the short film. The DVD of the film can be bought on the internet. You may also try Farrall...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 4
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Horror stories characters
Quick vocabulary activity that can be done by the pupils at home before starting a sequence on a horror film or horror story (I did it before working on Tim Burton�s Vincent, Polanski�s The Fearless Vampire Killers or Anne Rice�s Interview With The Vampire and it worked quite well). Another possible activity that you can do after that one if you wo...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 15
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