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Paranoid - Jonas Brothers Listening
A fun skills building listening activity. This focusses upon listening to follow instructions and for finer detail. There is a link to the official clip on youtube. My students loved this, I hope yours do too.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 12
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Robert Pattinson Stinks!
This works well with difficult to motivate teens. It generates plenty of discussion. It engages because students are interested enough to read for detail. It works well for pre-intermediate too, good for practice.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 31
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Sell My Sports Drink - marketing task
My students loved this activity. They created magic sports drinks (we discussed this using Willy Wonka and Harry Potter as examples) and really enjoyed creating an advertising campaign for their products (some filmed TV ads, others taped themselves for radio ads, some created dialogues for talk-back shows). It is a great writing and speaking skill ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 18
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Natales Song - Sia
This is great for inferring tone and mood. The main themes are friendship, support and sadness and this generates discussion amongst students. The tasks themselves are great practice and are a little more tricky than a cloze passage. I used this with pre-intermediate teens and they enjoyed it. From here we used the themes for anecdotal speaking tas...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 4
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Listening - Here if You Want, The Waifs
Not just a cloze passage, activities encourage active listening. This also includes a reading task - a recent festival poster featuring the Waifs and other bands; lyric comprehension and incident understanding - i used the live version featured on their Brief History album which has an audience and a mobile phone. Its great for accents - my student...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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Listening task - You Gotta Be - Des`ree
Very good listening practice, not just a cloze passage, has listening for sequence as well.
This is not only a listening task. This also has a reading task attached as well - regarding Des`ree�s lawsuit against Beyonce, good for reading comprehension (finer details).
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 23
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Jonas Brothers Reading I
Designed to appeal to teenaged girls, this worksheet was engaging and required students to infer meaning from context. It is good practice for the reading skill.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 58
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Listening - Hannah Montana - Life�s What You Make It
My students loved this task. After working on the listening task (more than a cloze passage) they had to analyse the lyrics. Hope you enjoy this as much as my students did.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 10
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The Backpacker
This is a great activity to help readers infer tone from a text. It generates a lot of discussion.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 8
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Lets�s ractice Phonics
This phonics practice reinfornces the sound of long vowel pairs through riddles. Your kids will enjoy working with riddles.
Level: elementary
Age: 7-10
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7
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