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Telephoning
Here is an illustrated list of expressions to use when making telephone calls or receiving telephone calls. Both British and American expressions are listed. This was inspired by an old list from the CRAPEL at the University of Nancy II in Nancy, France, but was extensively revised and reformatted.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 261
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Wall Street (Film) exercise
Film about Wall Street greed. Workseets for vocabulary and listening comprehension. (Many thanks to fellow teacher Dick T. for all his contributions.)
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 35
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Animal Rights Discussion
Students work in small groups discussing the pros and cons of animal rights. This can be followed up with a written essay.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 22
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Water Idoms
This list of idioms appeared in "The English Teaching Forum," but I took the liberty of making an exercise out of it and adding pictures of an anchor and paddle. I used the fonts Ocean View-Initials (a water-type font for the title) and Baskerville, but you may change these to ensure that everything fits onto one page. (This is an updated version o...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 60
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Forced Choices Interviews
Here is a magical exercise that always seems to change the atmosphere in a class. Give half the students paper A and half B, and have them get into pairs. Their task is to take turns asking each other, "Are you more like �blue� or more like �yellow�?" The answers tend to become deep without becoming embarrassing or personal. My inspirations for thi...
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7
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Catcher in the Rye - Misc. Notes
Here are some miscellaneous notes and suggestions for original exercises for the classic novel, "Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger. (Some of the ideas for exercises come from EFL author Fran�oise Grellet.)
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 10
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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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Why Can�t the English?
In "My Fair Lady," Professor Henry Higgins laments that no one speaks correct English. Here the students identify the different nationalities/countries accused of massacring the language.
Level: elementary
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 15
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Thank You, M�am - Questions
Langston Hughes is best known as a poet of the Harlem Renaissance during the 1920s, but here are some discussion questions to a fabulous short story written in the 1950s. As a follow-up (homework, for example), I ask students to write a letter from the boy to the woman 10 or 15 years after the story takes place.
Send me a private message with yo...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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Dear Ann Landers/Dear Abby
Here are some letters to American agony aunts (and twin sisters), Ann Landers and Abigail van Buren. Distribute a "Problem" card and an "Advice" card randomly to each student, who study the cards before they are taken back by the teacher. The students have to circulate around the classroom and summarize "their" problem to another student, who then ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 11
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