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Shakespearean Questionnaire
This is a FUN questionnaire to help students get their tongues around Shakespearean language.
After explaining the peculiarities of Shakespearean language (2nd & 3rd person singular pronouns and verb forms), have the students work in pairs interviewing each other. Explain to students that the questions tagged with the female symbol should be ask...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 36
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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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Fawlty Towers - Basil the Rat
This is a worksheet to use with the popular British TV series, "Fawlty Towers."
I used Bookman font for the title (the same as the television programme). The pictures illustrating the key vocabulary will look best when printed on a PostScript compatible laser printer from a Macintosh, but they should be recognizable with other printers. Otherwis...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 28
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Gerunds or Infinitives? (British)
Knowing whether to use a gerund or an infinitive is NOT easy. Here is a worksheet to help students choose. I�ve added 3 EPS images to illustrate some of the vocabulary. I used the font Baskerville, which permits everything to appear on a single page.You may with to experiment with a different font. (The 40 examples are from British English.)
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 146
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Ideal Job
I am always amazed at how much discussion this activity generates.
Students have to classify elements for a rewarding and satisfying job into 4 categories (essential, desirable, unimportant, and undesirable), and then discuss their choices in small groups.
Please note that this exercise was NOT stolen from "The Standby Book." (I am the author...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 9
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Candidates and Energy
Here is an overview of Mitt Romney�s and Barack Obama�s views on energy for the United States, available here: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57493322/obama-seeks-to-exploit-gop-divide-on-renewable-energy/?tag=thisMorningLatest. (I used the font CableDignbats for the CBS logo.)
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 9
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Occupational Misfit
With these puns, students work in pairs to match a man�s jobs with explanations of why he failed at them. There is a worksheet for each pair, plus a set of cut-up slips of papers with the explanations.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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Debate over Gun Control
From CBS News, here is a report on the debate over Gun Control after the mass shooting in an Aurora, Colorado movie theater. (I used the font CableDignbats for the CBS logo.) You can view this online at http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57477294/colo-shooting-re-ignites-gun-control-debate/?tag=cbsnewsMainColumnArea
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 43
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Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue
With this popular, easy-to-understand song by Johnny Cash, students work in pairs to unscramble the story of a boy with a girl�s name into order. Then they listen to the song in order to check.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 15
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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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