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Pres. Obama on the Debt Crisis
Here is a listening exercise based on President Obama�s recent speech about the debt crisis, which can be found at http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/07/25/president-obama-deficit-reduction-requires-tackling-entitlements-and-tax-reform
If you want to change any of the blanks, copy and paste the number with the parentheses, and Word will automat...
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 4
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Dear Ann Landers/Dear Abby
Here are some letters to American agony aunts (and twin sisters), Ann Landers and Abigail van Buren. Distribute a "Problem" card and an "Advice" card randomly to each student, who study the cards before they are taken back by the teacher. The students have to circulate around the classroom and summarize "their" problem to another student, who then ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 11
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Scientific Literacy
Several years ago an article in "Newsweek" comparing science education in countries around the world ran a companion article listing the most essential scientific vocabulary for high school students. This was easily transformed into a vocabulary exercise where the students are given the definitions and have to supply the terms (which are provided o...
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 9
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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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Bogus E-mail Interactive
This is a fun interactive writing exercise where each student has to write 3 bogus e-mails to someone (a famous person or someone in their school) signed by someone else on 3 separate sheets of paper. (The teacher can go around helping while the students are writing and can also contribute 3 e-mails.)
The e-mails are posted on the walls around t...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 8
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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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15 Exercises We�d Be Better Off Without
Here is a matching exercise for common idioms.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 12
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Medical Dilemmas
For this discussion activity, divide the class into pairs or small groups and give each student ONE of the cards. The students debate the issues on BOTH cards (the sale of human organs AND requiring medical students to do 6-month internships in developing countries). Each student has prompts with ideas for ONE of the topics. I use these in conjunct...
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 34
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Life in Victorian Britain - Passages
This excellent documentary on Victorian Britain gives good insight into all aspects of life in 19th century Britain. The vocabulary load is high, but advanced students enjoy it. Here are the literary passages quoted in this 50-minute film (available on Amazon UK). These passages complement the worksheet with comprehension questions for "Life in Vic...
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 17
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Science Fact or Science Fiction Quiz
Here are 3 quizzes/worksheets to promote discussion about science among your students. Have your class divide into teams of 3 or 4 students. They then discuss whether each statement is science fact or science fiction (true or false). Then come together and do the quiz like a TV game show, giving each team one point for each correct answer.
After t...
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 57
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