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Arrested Development - Top Banana
This brilliant American TV series was a BIG hit with critics and my (B2 and C1 levels) students alike, the story of a wealthy dysfunctional 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.
Season 1, Episode 2.
The ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 3
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Achmed the Terrorist & Walter
Worksheet for Jeff Dunham�s Dummies, Walter and Achmed the Dead Terrorist. The video clip can be found on YouTube. Very funny. From "The Tonight Show" just after Christmas.
I used Serendipity for the title font. You may have to adjust the font size to get everything onto one page.
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 9
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Interrogative Snakes & Ladders
In this grammar game, students have to determine which questions are correct and which need to be changed. The full instructions are given on page 2. I used the font Zeal for the arrows in the squares on the left and right sides of the game board. (Inspired by "Grammar Games" by Mario Rinvolucri, CUP.)
Level: elementary
Age: 11-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 11
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Silent Letters
Students work individually or in pairs to identify the silent letters in each of these words.
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 22
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Tex Avery Cartoon - Cuckoo Clock
This Tex Avery cartoon has little dialogue, but can be used to focus on clauses with �after� + gerund.
It is easily available on the Internet, including
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W24mULoKR34>
Present the vocabulary that will new or troublesome for your students.
After showing the cartoon to your students once, hand out an envelope with the...
Level: elementary
Age: 12-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 10
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Abbott & Costello - Who�s on First? (ws)
"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: 3
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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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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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Supertramp - The Logical Song
A gap-fill exercise for this popular, easy-to-understand song by Supertramp relating the difficulty of being being true to yourself in face of pressure to conform.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 8
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Woody Allen - The Bomb Shelter
In the 1960s Woody Allen did stand-up comedy and recorded 3 comedy albums (available on Amazon). Here he talks about his misadventures living in a bomb shelter with his wife. Woody Allen performed this sketch on the American edition of "That Was the Week that Was" in 1964-1965.
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 2
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