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Group-Centered News
Here is a detailed description for using a short news summary with beginners and low-level learners. It takes little preparation and involves playing a short radio news summary and having the students transcribe it as a group.
Level: elementary
Age: 12-100
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 4
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iPad from Two Angles
The release of Apple�s iPad was a big news event in the United States last weekend. Here students first predict and then discuss the probability of their classmates getting an iPad. Then they all read the first or second half of the iPad review from "The New York Times" and summarize it for a partner. (Encourage discussion.) The website where the a...
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 8
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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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Fawlty Towers - Basil the Rat
This is a worksheet to use with the popular British TV series, "Fawlty Towers."
I used Bookman font for the title (the same as the television programme). The pictures illustrating the key vocabulary will look best when printed on a PostScript compatible laser printer from a Macintosh, but they should be recognizable with other printers. Otherwis...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 28
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Present Perfect Lying
This is an exercise for practicing the Present Perfect and Simple Past, as well as questions.
Hand out Worksheets A and B. Explain to the students that they have to answer yes to each question �Have you ever �?�.
Demonstrate the idea by asking a student to answer yes to the next question: "Have you ever been to Greece?" (Student then replies ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6
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The Tell-Tale Heart - Ideas & Text
Here are a few (original?) ideas to get students involved and talking about Edgar Allen Poe�s famous short story, along with the text to the story on pages 2 and 3. The role cards that I uploaded along with this are related to exercise 3 in this lesson plan.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 52
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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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Harper Valley PTA
This country music ballad tells the story of hypocrisy in a small U.S. town. Students love the surprise ending.
In this worksheet students match the characters in the song with their wrongdoings.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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Telephone Encounter
Lots of discussion in pairs, threes, or fours about our use of the telephone. You may wish to change the font so that everything fits onto one page. (I used Baskerville.)
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 21
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George Carlin - Euphemisms
This is a different kind of worksheet to go with George Carlin�s monologue, Euphemisms (from his DVD "Doin� It Again"; an audio CD is also available). Students like this very much, as George Carlin was a comedian who not only made us laugh, but made us think, too.
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 40
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