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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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Word Stress
A few words (like record, present, and produce) have different pronunciations, depending on whether it is a noun, adjective, or verb. This worksheets helps students see the rules and to practice.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 27
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Solar Roadways
This is a very interesting video about replacing asphalt roads with solar panels made of GLASS in order to generate enough electricity to supply the whole United States and most of the world. It should really interest science and engineering students. This worksheet has 1 page of vocabulary and 1 page of listening comprehension and discussion quest...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 13
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My Blackberry Is Not Working
There are 2 possible ways to use this very funny video from the BBC:
1) As a traditional listening execise, have the students watch this video, discuss the main ideas briefly then hand out the gapped worksheet and ask them to fill in as many of the blanks as they can remember. Then play the video clip again and let them fill in the remaining gaps...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 52
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Occupations
Students match jobs with humorous definitions.
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 8
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Victor Borge - Inflationary Language
Comedian and pianist Victor Borge explains how inflation can affect English, where "before" becomes "befive." Here you can give the students either the original or the "inflated" version to "convert" before listening. This is a transcription that I made of his famous routine, which is available in audio and DVD formats from the iTunes store and Ama...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 1
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Numb3rs - Pilot episode
This is a worksheet to episode 1 of the first season of the excellent American TV drama show, "Numb3rs," which is about an FBI agent and his math genius brother, who uses mathematics to solve crimes. This show is very popular with my science and engineering students for both the math and the human drama. Support material for the math can be found o...
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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Down in Australia
The Sydney Olympics were a long time ago, but matching these stupid questions from visitors with the sarcastic answers can be fun. (Students can provide their own answers where none are provided.)
As a follow-up, students can work in pairs or small groups to make up stupid questions about their country, e.g. What time does the Bastille prison open...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 9
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Getting a Word In
In this enjoyable exercise, each student is given a card with a secret phrase. Students then work in groups of 5-7, discussing every topic they wish, but during the 20-minute discussion they have to place their secret sentence as naturally as possible in a way so that no one else can identify their sentence. The trick is to speak about several diff...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 9
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Fawlty Towers - Communication Problems
This is a worksheet to use with this episode of the British TV sitcom, "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. ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 28
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