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Great Presentation Resources
Here is a handout with useful resources for students to help them with their class presentations. Many of the websites listed come from Mark Powell, who has written 2 excellent books for English students on giving presentations. You may need to change the fonts in order for everything to fit onto 1 page.
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: others
Downloads: 61
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Humour Techniques
Here is a list of common humour techniques that I have compiled, along with examples from TV sitcoms, films, stand-up comedians, etc. In a few instances there are explanations of the technques.
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 24
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Alabama Literacy Test
This is the literacy test administered in Alabama in 1965 to keep blacks from registering to vote. The examiners could ask prospective voters 2 or 60 questions, and a single wrong answer could prevent you from registering to vote if you were black (but not if you were white.) This literacy test (and background information) are available elsewhere o...
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 17
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Kaleidoscope - Discussion Questions
Here are some discussion questions to use after students read Ray Bradbury�s short story (science fiction) about interplanetary astronauts facing death. The idea is for each student to cross out or strike through all the questions he or she would NOT like to answer. The students then exchange question sheets with a partner and alternating questions...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6
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Father Ted-And God Created Woman
Here is a worksheet for the funny Irish/British sitcom "Father Ted," which is available on YouTube in several parts. This episode, "And God Created Woman," is from Series 1, Episode 5. The sitcom is about 3 priests on a remote island off the coast of Ireland. Recommended for students 18 and older.
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 27
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Monty Python - Australian Wines
There are 3 different worksheets here of various levels of difficulty (plus the transcription that I made myself) of Eric Idle�s satirical "praise" of Australian Wines. I usually don�t tell my students that it is a spoof, and then at the end ask them if the speaker has a positive or negative opinion of the wines.
Please note that "chunder" is Aust...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 12
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Blue Mountain State: It�s Called Hazing
This was a successful American sitcom about American college athletes and fraternity members, but because of the language and references to sex, it is appropriate ONLY for those 18 and over. My students requested this, but because I had doubts about its appropriateness, I did a survey (included) to see if anyone would object. My students loved it. ...
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 10
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Chairing a Conference
This is a helpful list of expressions and tips for people chairing an academic conference, extensively adapted from handouts (and reformatted) from the CRAPEL at the University of Nancy II, France.
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 15
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Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel�s Coat
Here are 2 worksheets for Alfred Hitchcock�s adaptation of Roald Dahl�s short story, "Mrs. Bixby And The Colonel�s Coat."
You can use either worksheet, OR give half of the class one, the other half the other. After viewing the film, the students can then pair up and compare their answers.
YouTube has several videos of this, including:
http://www...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 29
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At the Pet Shop Role Play
Have the students brainstorm animals that are not normally pets (examples: hippos, crocodiles, pigs, giraffes, penguins, pythons, skunks, etc.). Then have each pair of students select an unconventional pet and draw a picture of it. (You could also use pictures and have the students select an unconventional pet from these).
Then explain to them t...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 3
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