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Extraverts Could Cause Problems on a Mission to Mars
This is both a speaking and a reading exercise with the discussion about introverts and extroverts and their suitability for a long mission to Mars leading into to reading the article from "Scientific American."
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7
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Catcher in the Rye - Questions 2
More discussion questions for "Catcher in the Rye."
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 10
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Catcher in the Rye - Vocabulary ex.
In this exercise to accompany study of "Catcher in the Rye," students work individually, associating adjectives with 6 characters from the story. They then work in small groups comparing their associations and explaining them. This type of word association exercise was suggested by the book "Vocabulary" by John Morgan and Mario Rinvolucri (Oxford U...
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 8
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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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Present Like Steve Jobs
A very good 7-minute video entitled, "How to Present Like Steve Jobs" gives students (and teachers!) excellent advice on how to give very professional presentations (available at BNET.com [http://www.bnet.com/2422-13722_23-192173.html]). This worksheet (along with a corrected transcript) helps students highlight the most important aspects from the ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 35
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Spin City - Miracle Near 34th Street
Considered one of the funniest moments ever on American TV ("TV Guide"), this is Christmas humor at its blackest. Santa not only loses his job, but gets into a fight, gets stuck in a chimney, and then dies, while the mayor sets the city�s Christmas tree on fire, all to prove to a young boy that Santa really exists. I used the font Matrix Bold for t...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 2
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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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Pranks You Can Pull
A FUN activity! Get the students to describe some practical jokes or pranks. Then hand out the worksheet and go over each item. 1) Have the students rank the pranks in the left column according to how unpleasant they would be if pulled on them personally. 2) Have the students work in groups of 3 or 4 to discuss their rankings, then choose classmate...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 24
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Jake - Young Math Genius
Jake is a math prodigy and maybe a future Einstein. He memorized 200 digits of Pi in just one afternoon, and he can cite them backwards. Only 13, he is an honors student at university and helps his fellow students study for their exams. Here is a worksheet and transcript for this 13-minute news report from CBS�s �60 Minutes.� http://www.cbsnews.com...
Level: advanced
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 24
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Make or Do Questionnaire
Students work in pairs asking and answering questions about common situations using either DO or MAKE in their answers.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 13
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