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Coraline Movie Study Guide
This worksheet is to be used after watching the first 21:20 minutes of the movie Coraline. Subsequent lessons will be uploaded when ready. The process is vocabulary building, matching, fill in the blank, comparison, and presentation.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 71
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Writing a Haiku Poem
Use these worksheets to help your students write their first poem, using one of the most simple formats; the haiku. First have them review an example, then change a few adjectives, then build vocabulary and then have them write their own haiku.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 125
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Find Someone Who
This printable is great for the first day of class for students and teachers to get to know each other.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 56
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Friendship: What makes a good friend?
This is a nice handout I cobbled together from a variety of sources and modified to get students to talk about what characteristics they find important in a friend.
Begin the lesson with open questions about who has a best friend, why, etc.
A POWERFUL way to close the lesson is to watch a cool youtube short film called "Strangers". Introduce...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 118
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What is a syllable?
Use this handout to teach syllables and look at one of the longest words in English.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 8
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This Music Makes Me Feel...
This lesson about music and different music styles grabs students because you play 3 very different music videos on youtube (Meshuggah, Johnny Cash, Amy Adams). They then check their answers on a question grid. After the videos they turn to their neighbor and ask about their opinions, and fill out their grid. Finally, each student fills out a grid ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 51
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Youtube Lesson: Stealing
Use this lesson to help foster discussion about lying and stealing. First build the vocabulary, then watch the youtube video of Odysseus and the Cyclops, then have students role-play.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 4
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Music Discussion based on Playing for Changes� "Stand By Me"
Use this lesson to get your students talking about music from around the world. Open with the fantastic youtube video by the group, Playing for Change. Then give students a chance to prepare answers, and then have a discussion time.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7
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Reduced Forms and the Titanic
This is a worksheet made from material in Nina Weinstein�s "Whaddaya Say" that I have found very fun in classes, particularly for students 14 and above.
First review the reduced forms and then watch the youtube clip "I Jump, You Jump (6:54 min)" farom Titanic. Then have students underline the words spoken in reduced form. There are more than yo...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 10
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Short Essay Game
This activity is great to challenge students to write a short essay using given vocabulary. It challenges them to be creative while building vocabulary.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 9
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Phonics: The "Magic E" or "Silent E"
Use this Powerpoint to introduce the concept of Magic "E", also known as the silent E.
I teach the class that it is a "trick", which somehow draws their interest more than just the "silent e". I usually start with bringing up two students, naming the first a short vowel, the second a consonant (...
Level: elementary
Age: 9-17
Downloads: 39
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