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Who Am I? - Scientists
Print out and cut up the cards. Tape 1 card with Scotch tape/Sellotape on the back of each student. The students then walk around the room asking each other Yes and No questions like "Am I alive?" or "Am I European?" to find out their new identity. Encourage those answering the questions to use short answers like "Yes, you are" and "No, you didn�t?...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 3
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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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Fawlty Towers - Waldorf Salad
This worksheet is a bit different from the standard listening comprehension worksheets for the British TV sitcom "Fawlty Towers." It could be used with the dialogue jumble that I uploaded with this worksheet.
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 18
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Catcher in the Rye - Questions 1
Discussion questions for "Catcher in the Rye."
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 17
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News Programs for You!
Here is a handy list of major TV news programs, their websites, and podcast links. (The local times and channels can be edited or removed.) These can be useful for teachers as well as for students working on their own.
I used the fonts Garamond (so that everything would fit onto one US Letter page) and CableDingbats (for the different network logo...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 13
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Abbott & Costello - Who�s on First (text)
"The second funniest sketch of the 20th century" is what "Time" magazine called this in their millennium issue back in 2000. I don�t think Bud Abbott and Lou Costello ever performed this sketch exactly the same way twice, so the different audio and video versions that you come across will differ somewhat.
It is super fast, but upper-intermediate...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 9
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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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Lydia, The Tattooed Lady
Tattoos seem rather common today, but with this amusing song by comedian Groucho Marx, students have to identify and order all of Lydia�s tattoos, illustrating world history and geography. Groucho and his brothers may be less known today than they were generations back, but students enjoy this crazy song. It is easily available on the Internet, as ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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Momisms
If this doesn�t wake up your students, nothing will!
Here is a FUN activity with lots of vocabulary that takes a VERY difficult (and funny) song sung to the tune of "The William Tell Overture" and brings it way down to intermediate level because the listening tasks are selective and individualized. (The video is available on YouTube and the iTun...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 16
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iPad from Two Angles
The release of Apple�s iPad was a big news event in the United States last weekend. Here students first predict and then discuss the probability of their classmates getting an iPad. Then they all read the first or second half of the iPad review from "The New York Times" and summarize it for a partner. (Encourage discussion.) The website where the a...
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 8
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