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ACHY, BREAKY CHINESE COLLEGE STUDENT HEARTS
This worked well with my second year college English majors. Ask students to prepare before class; pick up the text in class at the beginning of class; pair students and give them 10 minutes to retell/ repeat the contents of the passage; pair students with a new partner and give them the questions--one person gets the odd questions and one person g...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 2
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Question Worksheet: Kung-Fu Panda
Ask students to read the text. Next put the students in pairs then hand out the questions. Works great for Chinese college students.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 4
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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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OXFORD PROGRESSIVE READER (Book 1): To Build A Fire
Here are 20+ questions from the OXFORD PROGRESSIVE READER (Book 1) To Build a Fire. These questions may be dictated or given to students to write answers to. They can also be rearranged into odd and even questions and then the students arranged in pairs with one student receiving odd questions and the other pair member receiving the even questions....
Level: elementary
Age: 12-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 4
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WRONG CHOICES: Not Learning English
Ask students to read this outside class. In class, pair students and ask them to retell the contents. Next, give the students a new partner, then give them the questions.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 27
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ESCAPE: CHRONICLES OF MODERN CHINESE CHILDHOOD
ESCAPE was written by one of my students as part of a large autobiographical exercise. It is at a lower intermediate level and should be good material for students anywhere in the world. The questions at the end are designed to encourage oral fluency (students should be put in pairs). There are questions specific to the story and also questions abo...
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 4
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Pyramid Schemes on the Plateau
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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CULTURAL MEMORY - text + comprehension questions
CULTURAL MEMORY. This is an annotated version of /Cultural Memory/ at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_memory.
1] Ask students to read the text that follows these comprehension questions and then answer the questions.
2] The questions may be dictated first.
3] For speaking and listening practice, questions might be divided and given to s...
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
Type:
Downloads: 13
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China�s Tu (Monguor) Minority
The Tu are one of China�s fifty-six officially recognized ethnic groups. China�s total Tu or Monguor population is about 240,000. Most Tu live in Qinghai Province and in Tianzhu Tibetan Autonomous County, Gansu Province. Most Tu are farmers and also have a few livestock. Today, many Monguor leave their homes to work in cities to do construction wor...
Level: elementary
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 3
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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:
Downloads: 5
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