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Friends - The One with the Red Sweater
Season 8, Episode 2 of this great sitcom. I used Gabriel Weiss� Friends Font for the titles.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 28
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Tom Lehrer - Pollution
A gap-fill for a very funny song satirizing pollution by Tom Lehrer. The song is as topical today as it was 50 years ago.
His songs are available on the Internet, the iTunes store, and Amazon (sung by him and a version from the musical "TomFoolery.")
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6
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Colloquialisms 2
The list of common colloquial expressions came from an old British coursebook, but I made it into an exercise that is challenging, but not impossible for upper-intermediate and advanced learners. Here students have to match the questions with replies.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 38
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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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How I Met Your Mother - Game Night
Here is an illustrated worksheet from the very popular American TV series, "How I Met Your Mother." Season 1, episode 15. I used the font Excelsior LT Standard for the title, which is the same as that used in for the first season titles.
The .eps images illustrating some vocabulary will look nicest if printed on a PostScript-compatible laser pri...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 41
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Alistair Cooke�s America - Making a Revolution
Part 4 of legendary BBC correspondent�s documentary history of the U.S. This episode looks at the Revolutionary War, Declaration of Independence, and Constitution. I bought this DVD series on Amazon UK. For upper-intermediate & advanced students.
Level: advanced
Age: 15-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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Catcher in the Rye - Vocabulary ex.
In this exercise to accompany study of "Catcher in the Rye," students work individually, associating adjectives with 6 characters from the story. They then work in small groups comparing their associations and explaining them. This type of word association exercise was suggested by the book "Vocabulary" by John Morgan and Mario Rinvolucri (Oxford U...
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 8
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Bob Newhart - Bus Drivers� School
One of stand-up comedian Bob Newhart�s great monologues. Here he is teaching student bus drivers everything they need to know about driving a bus, including how to frighten car drivers and leave little old ladies chasing the bus as it pulls out.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 2
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Everyday Use Discussion Questions
Discussion questions to go with the beautiful short story "Everyday Use" by black American author Alice Walker. This short story is always a hit, even with my science and engineering students.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 13
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Fawlty Towers - Waldorf Salad Jumble
Give each pair of students a set of the strips, and ask them to construct a dialogue between a customer and a restaurant manager. Answer any questions about vocabulary. After they have ALMOST finished, play the scene from the "Fawlty Towers" episode "Waldorf Salad" so they can check (and correct) their version.
You can then use the "Waldorf Sala...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 8
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