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Presentations - Judges Ballot
As students give their presentations, class members (including the teacher) rate each speaker on the content of their presentations and their delivery. After all the presentations have been given, the results are tallied, and prizes (like ribbons, certificates made up from PowerPoint templates, or candy) are distributed to the 3 top presenters. Bas...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 8
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Fawlty Towers - Waldorf Salad Jumble
Give each pair of students a set of the strips, and ask them to construct a dialogue between a customer and a restaurant manager. Answer any questions about vocabulary. After they have ALMOST finished, play the scene from the "Fawlty Towers" episode "Waldorf Salad" so they can check (and correct) their version.
You can then use the "Waldorf Sala...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 8
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Asking Questions at a Lecture
This is a helpful list of expressions and tips for people attending academic conferences, extensively adapted (and reformatted) from a handout from the CRAPEL at the University of Nancy II, France.
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6
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West Side Story - Tonight
A gap-fill from this famous musical.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 8
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Being There
Here are worksheets for the exquisite film, "Being There," starring Peter Sellers and Shirley MacLaine. It is an intelligent film and as funny today as when it was made 3 decades ago. (The worksheets were made by another colleague and myself.)
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7
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Numb3rs - Uncertainty Principle
This program is a big hit with science and engineering students.
I used Helvetica Neue Light for the title, the same font as the one used for the title sequence. The most important words for students to remember are in bold.
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 1
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Phrasal Verbs - Guessing Test
Here is a test to go along with the Phrasal Verbs - guessing worksheets that I also uploaded. There are 2 versions, A and B, to reduce the chance of students� copying from their neighbours.
Level: advanced
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 18
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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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Humorous Biographies
Most of the time, students write for the teacher. Here the students write humorous biographies of their classmates for their classmates AND their teacher to read. Have everyone write their name on a slip of paper, collect them, and have each student draw a name out of a hat, taking care to draw a second name if they happen to draw their own. (And w...
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 15
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Victor Borge - Phonetic Pronunciation
Comedian and pianist Victor Borge claims that spoken English should be punctuated like written language. Here is a transcription that I made of his famous routine, which is available in audio and DVD formats from the iTunes store and Amazon.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 1
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