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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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Billy and Sammy
I took the well-known Shirley Jackson short story CHARLES and simplified and changed it to produce this story. Suggestions teaching: Ask students to read the story outside class. In class, pair the students and ask them retell the story. Then repair the students and give them the questions. After ten minutes, repair the students again, and ask them...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 3
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Electricity Comes to a Village in China--Power Changes
An intermediate level reading particularly appropriate for Chinese learners of English. Ask students to read the text, then put the students in pairs, and give them the questions.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 6
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KING ARTHUR AND THE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE. Penguin Reader Level 2
Penguin Reader: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Level 2. These are comprehension questions. First, assign the story to your students. In class, divide the students into pairs or small groups. Divide the questions among the students, ensuring that each student in the pair or small group has different questions. Students ask and answe...
Level: elementary
Age: 6-100
Type:
Downloads: 3
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PASSIONS AND COLORED SLEEVES (A Novel from Northwestern China)
PASSIONS AND COLORED SLEEVES is an open access novel about northwestern China that follows one extended family from about 1899 to one hundred years later.
This novel may be accessed below:
http://tibetanplateau.wikischolars.columbia.edu/Passions+and+Colored+Sleeves
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 3
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THE ELEPHANT VANISHES, Discussion questions for a Haruki Murakami short story.
Discussion questions for the short story: THE ELEPHANT VANISHES by Haruki Murakami (published in THE NEW YORKER, November 10, 1991). The teacher assigns students the story (search on the Internet for a copy) to read. In class, students are divided into pairs and given these questions to ask and answer. Toward the end of class, individual students a...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
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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Penguin Reader, Level 2. BLACK BEAUTY.
Penguin Reader, Level 2. BLACK BEAUTY. After students read this story, divide them into pairs or small groups. For example, if there are four students in a group, divide the questions into four parts and have them ask and answer.
Level: elementary
Age: 7-100
Type:
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DEB MAKES WRONG CHOICES: Version 2
This is another version of another worksheet. I�ve had very good luck using this story and, this term, asked students to write and give me new chapters. I don�t teach writing but, if I did, I would invite students to add more material. Lots of activities accompany this text at the end. Hope it works for you as well as it did for me!
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 22
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A MAN LIKE HIM (short story by Li Yiyun): Comprehension Questions
This story may be downloaded for free at
http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2008/05/12/080512fi_fiction_li
Li Yiyun is an important contemporary write-about-China. She now lives and teaches in the USA.
These are comprehension questions.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 3
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