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Michael Phelps Interview
Here is a great interview with Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps for upper-intermediate students from the CBS news magazine, �60 Minutes.� Here are a worksheet and the transcript. (I used the font CableDignbats for the CBS logo.) Available online at http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57476222/michael-phelps-ready-for-london-games/?tag=currentVideoI...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 41
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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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The Nanny - A Star Is Unborn
In this American sitcom, the nanny Fran is chosen to act in a Shakespearean play with the idea that the play will flop with her in the lead role. Stars Fran Drescher. This is from Season 2.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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Citizen Kane: News on the March
The newsreel at the beginning of "Citizen Kane" is one of the most difficult parts of the movie to understand, mostly because of its bombastic style and inverted subjects and verbs. (I usually leave the English subtitles on for this part of the film for my students.) This worksheet is to help them get the main points from the newsreel, which show t...
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7
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The Tell-Tale Heart - Ideas & Text
Here are a few (original?) ideas to get students involved and talking about Edgar Allen Poe�s famous short story, along with the text to the story on pages 2 and 3. The role cards that I uploaded along with this are related to exercise 3 in this lesson plan.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 52
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Rowan Atkinson - Return of Constable Savage
An encore from Rowan Atkinson�s first TV show, "Not the Nine O�Clock News," we see the conscientious Constable Savage reprimanded again for arresting the same man 1,254 times, including for "impersonating a member of the general public." The hard-working constable has also arrested the man�s wife and son for "breaking and entering a boiled egg."
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Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 11
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Bad PowerPoint
Few things are as effective as satire in teaching people presentation techniques (or most other things!).
Don McMillan�s funny "Bad PowerPoint" or "Death by PowerPoint" video, which can be found on YouTube or ordered from his website, is an excellent way to teach students (uh, and teachers, too!) how NOT to do their PowerPoint slides.
It is b...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 16
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Madman on a Bridge
This exercise is done in 4 phases.
1) Read the problem together as a class, and the students work individually to rank the 6 people according to their responsibility for the woman�s death.
2) The students work in small groups of 4 to 6 people comparing their answers and explaining their choices.
3) Hand out the discussion questions and have the ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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Shameless Intro
This acclaimed comedy drama from Channel 4 in Britain portrays a dysfunctional working-class family in very stark terms. The accents are typical of the northern England working class, thus quite difficult!
An idea would be to have half of the class watch the scene from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dssnahZ16uU&feature=related> with the sound off,...
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 2
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Occupational Misfit
With these puns, students work in pairs to match a man�s jobs with explanations of why he failed at them. There is a worksheet for each pair, plus a set of cut-up slips of papers with the explanations.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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