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PRISON (a short story): Questions
Li Yiyun is an important Chinese-American writer, especially for foreigners teaching English in China. One of many challenges for English teachers in China is locating English-language materials that students can understand culturally--without having to decode unfamiliar cultural references about the West. Li Yiyun thus provides short stories about...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7
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TITANIC! Penguin Reader 4.
TITANIC! Penguin Reader 4. Assign TITANIC! to the students to read. Also, assign the movie. In class, divide the students into pairs or small groups. Divide the questions equally among students in each pair/group. Students will ask and answer the questions. Toward the end of the class, the teacher will call on individual students to answer the ques...
Level: intermediate
Age: 6-100
Type:
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THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER Penguin Reader Level 1 Begineer comprehension questions
Comprehension questions students should ask and answer in class in groups
Level: elementary
Age: 6-100
Type:
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PASSIONS AND COLORED SLEEVES (A Novel from Northwestern China)
PASSIONS AND COLORED SLEEVES is an open access novel about northwestern China that follows one extended family from about 1899 to one hundred years later.
This novel may be accessed below:
http://tibetanplateau.wikischolars.columbia.edu/Passions+and+Colored+Sleeves
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 3
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A CHINESE CULTURAL VERSION OF �THE HORSEDEALER�S DAUGHTER�: text plus questions and exercises
I changed the story to reflect a Chinese setting and created questions and exercises. Students might be assigned the story as homework, discuss in pairs in class, and then ask and answer questions with a new partner. The length of the text allows various in-class exercises, e.g., dictation, and so on.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 2
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THE EXPLODING WATERMELON: Dreaming in a Chinese University Dormitory
A former student wrote this story, reflecting what he had heard about the death of a student. I�ve used this story with more than 400 second year college English majors. Students had a lot to say about the story, especially the ending.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 7
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From N� Guo to N��er Guo: Negotiating Desire in the Land of the Mosuo
From N� Guo to N��er Guo: Negotiating Desire in the Land of the Mosuo. Eileen Rose Walsh Modern China 2005; 31; 448 DOI: 10.1177/0097700405279243. The online version of this article can be found at: http://mcx.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/31/4/448
Students should read the text, which is online at the above link. In class, students should be ...
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Type:
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BROWN EYES - comprehensin questions
Comprehension questions for students learning the elementary graded reader BROWN EYES.
Level: elementary
Age: 6-100
Type:
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ALICE IN WONDERLAND, Penguin Reader, Level 2, questions
These are questions about Penguin Graded Reader ALICE IN WONDERLAND by Lewis Carroll, a Level 2 story. For classwork, students are told to read the story and watch a film version of the story. In class, questions can be selected and dictated to the students. Students can also be given the questions before class and told to write answers. In class,...
Level: elementary
Age: 3-100
Type:
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THE ELEPHANT MAN - Oxford Bookworms, Level ! reader - comprehension questions
THE ELEPHANT MAN - Oxford Bookworms, Level ! reader - comprehension questions - These questions should be given to students in a classroom after they have read THE ELEPHANT MAN and been divided into pairs or small groups.
Level: elementary
Age: 6-100
Type:
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