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Friends - The One with the Sonogram at the End
Season 1, Episode 2 of this great sitcom. I used Gabriel Weiss�s Friends Font for the titles.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 63
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What Kind of Fool Am I?
Gap-fill exercise for this moving song by talented singer, Sammy David, Jr. it should be easy to find on the Internet or the iTunes Store.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 1
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Language of Presentations
Contains a list of signposting expressions to be incorporated into presentations.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 52
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Lamb to the Slaughter Storylines
Before the students read Roald Dahl�s short story or watch Alfred Hitchcock�s 23-minute film, they are given about a dozen short extracts from the story, and in groups they have to discuss a reason for each passage and what might be happening in the story. (This is based on a technique described in Alan Duff and Alan Maley�s great book, "Literature...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 56
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Basic Laser Theory (Prepositions)
Students try to find the missing prepositions. (Sorry about the background of the picture on the correction sheet looking black, but it prints out fine!)
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 9
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Jack Benny - Christmas Shopping
Jack Benny was one of the top comedians (and most loved!) in the U.S. from the 1930s through the 1960s. He always played the straight man and got more laughs from his silence than from his words. In this GREAT episode, his efforts to buy gifts for his friends and staff are less than successful. You can use individual scenes or the whole episode. A ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7
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British and American Sitcom Differences
What are the differences between British and American sitcoms? Another teacher gave me a copy clipped from an unknown newspaper entitled, "Sitcoms with a Different Sense of Humour," which I transformed into a discussion exercise that works very well with classes that are familiar with British and American sitcoms. After students have filled in the ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 21
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Young Pakistani Hero Malala
Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai may possibly win the Nobel Peace Prize for her campaign for girls� education, for which she was targeted for assassination. She survived a gunshot wound to the head, and spoke at the United Nations in a very stirring speech given on her 16th birthday.
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50150808n (for this ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 39
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Arrested Development - Top Banana
This brilliant American TV series was a BIG hit with critics and my (B2 and C1 levels) students alike, the story of a wealthy dysfunctional family that has hit hard times when the father is arrested and his son has to take over the business while keeping his lazy relatives from taking what little money there is left.
Season 1, Episode 2.
The ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 3
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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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