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THE GIFT OF THE MAGI and other stories
These questions are for pair/group work. They are based on THE GIFT OF THE MAGI AND OTHER STORIES,a graded reader at the beginner level.
Level: elementary
Age: 6-100
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RED RIVER VALLEY: Two versions (1) Stevie Nicks & Chris Isaak and (2) Marty Robbins
You�ll have fun with this!
Level: elementary
Age: 6-100
Type: others
Downloads: 4
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�Ant Tribes� in China AND Ten Bad Habits of Chinese College Students
There are two texts in this lesson. One is about /ant tribes/ and one is about bad habits of Chinese college students. Both are adaptations from materials on the internet. I have given the original web links in the two texts. I assign these texts to the students for outside reading. In class I first take the texts from the students. Next, I pair st...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: others
Downloads: 5
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REACTION IN CHINA TO KUNG FU PANDA 2
Use as a homework assignment. After you are confident students have read the texts [two short articles from the Chinese media and one from Wikipedia; I edited all three to make them shorter and have corrected the English] pair the students in class and give them the questions. There are more than 60 questions so, after ten minutes, ask students wit...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 4
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RUN FOR YOUR LIFE Penguin Reader Level 1 - 100+ questions
RUN FOR YOUR LIFE Penguin Reader Level 1
Good teacher�s notes here
http://www.penguinreaders.com/pdf/downloads/pr/teachers-notes/9781405869706.pdf
Here�s the official Penguin description:
Kim is running through the streets of the old town. She is frightened. A man with dark eyes and a knife is looking for her. He is going to catch her. Th...
Level: elementary
Age: 6-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6
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Reading, listening, speaking exercises about the New Yorker story THATAWAY
Discussion questions for pair or small group work about Thomas Francis McGuane III�s short story THATAWAY, first published in 2024 in THE NEW YORKER. Students should be divided into small groups or pairs and asked to discuss answers to these questions. The story references US culture and historical personalities the teacher can consider introduci...
Level: advanced
Age: 13-100
Type:
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BLACKY--The Runaway Water Buffalo
Written by the same student who wrote ESCAPE, this story describes the family�s water buffalo and her eventual return, but not before the family consults the writer�s deceased grandmother.
Students should prepare the text before class and then ask and answer questions in class in pairs.
My second year English majors had a lot to say about t...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 3
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Bike (A Chinese boy�s father sells enough rice to buy a bike for his son)
A boy�s father carries two big bags of rice to a distant market every day to sell to pay of debts. Then he puts six bags on a cart and pulls it to market, not using the family�s water buffalo because it would make the animal too tired. In the end, the boy�s father buys his son a new red bike, which he learns to ride.
Suggestions for teacher: ask...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 7
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ALICE IN WONDERLAND, Penguin Reader, Level 2, questions
These are questions about Penguin Graded Reader ALICE IN WONDERLAND by Lewis Carroll, a Level 2 story. For classwork, students are told to read the story and watch a film version of the story. In class, questions can be selected and dictated to the students. Students can also be given the questions before class and told to write answers. In class,...
Level: elementary
Age: 3-100
Type:
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APRIL IN MOSCOW (by Stephen Rabley). Penguin Reader, Level 1. 200 words.
APRIL IN MOSCOW (by Stephen Rabley). Penguin Reader, Level 1. 200 words. Ask students to read the story. In class, divide the students into pairs or small groups. Divide the questions among the pairs or students in small groups. Students ask and answer the questions. The teacher calls on individual students to answer the questions at the end of cla...
Level: elementary
Age: 5-100
Type:
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