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Bob Newhart - King Kong
Bob Newhart�s funniest monologue of a very conscientious night guard wondering what to do as King Kong climbs the outside of the Empire State Building. This hilarious recording is available on CD and from the iTunes store for a very low price. (Probably on YouTube, too!)
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 4
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Conditionals
A traditional grammar exercise with some speaking practice.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 54
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Tex Avery Cartoon - Symphony in Slang
This excellent cartoon by Tex Avery is a great teaching tool for upper-intermediate and advanced students because of its huge assortment of slang and idioms like being short-haned and raining cats and dogs. It is available here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot92Yfovvvg
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x45xby_mgm-cartoon-symphony-in-slang-1951_s...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 55
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Declaration of Independence
This worksheet is designed to help students understand the basic points of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. I used the font Zapfino for the title.
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 19
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Big Bang Theory - The Bat Jar Conjecture
Here are 2 different worksheets to accompany the American TV sitcom, "The Big Bang Theory," Season 1, episode 13, "The Bat Jar Conjecture," which science and engineering students love.
In the prior lesson, hand out the worksheet with the physics questions, and ask them to find the answers as homework for the next class. Suggest they ask their fr...
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 37
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Redneck Athletes
Many people make fun of the "rednecks" in the U.S. (Comedians Jeff Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy have built their careers portraying these conservative and poorly educated people.) Here students have to match the questions and answers, thus giving some insight into the stereotyped rednecks.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 4
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Elvis Presley - In the Ghetto
Certainly one of Elvis Presley�s most moving songs.
There are 2 worksheets here. The first one is a gapped text (interesting to let the students predict the missing words before listening), and then an updated grammar exercise where the students have to supply the correct simple past verbs in a prose summary of the story. There is also an answer...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 31
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Casey Anthony Trial
Here is the worksheet about the Casey Anthony trial.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/evening-news-online-07-05-11/id213885186?i=95450184>
or go directly to the CBS News web site:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/07/05/eveningnews/main20077009.shtml?tag=cbsnewsTwoColUpperPromoArea>
The article follows the video report very faithful...
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7
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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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Arrested Development - Pilot
This intelligent American TV series was a BIG hit with critics and my (B2 and C1 levels) students alike, the story of a wealthy dysfunctional family 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.
I used the font Ant...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6
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