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"Rocket Man" by Elton John - A computer room lesson
This is a suggestion for a computer activity I did following teaching a chapter called JOURNEYS which included, among other journeys, a description of a journey to space. This is a fun computer activity which analyzes the song "Rocket Man" by Elton John and deals with vocabulary, analysis of language, feelings of lonliness, etc.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: others
Downloads: 8
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A Museum Collection Computer Room Exercise
This is a computer room exercise I prepared following several lessons about "Museum collections". This exercise requires searching a museum site and extracting the requested information such as tickets, current exhibitions, etc.
Level: elementary
Age: 11-17
Type: others
Downloads: 2
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Aliens in the Garden / Story
A short story which can serve as reading material or as an unseen exercise for practice or test. The story comes with an exercise sheet with different types of questions, including true/false questions.
Level: elementary
Age: 10-12
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 64
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Animal ID
These are basically instructions for a research project on which my pupils worked for several weeks at home and in class (they worked in the computer room in order to find information for the project). I prepared this project following the "Strange Pets" unit we studied in class.
Level: elementary
Age: 12-17
Type: others
Downloads: 8
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Ants Unseen and Vocabulary
This is a text I took from a manual of a company called "Uncle Milton" who sells Ant Farms. Since we learned about Ants in our Course book (as part of our "Strange Pets Unit"), this text suits the class vocabulary wise and I use it to practice unseen texts - what methods should be be used when trying to understand a text.
Level: elementary
Age: 12-14
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7
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Behind the scenes of... developing the first iPhone
This is an adaptation of an article telling the story of the original iPhone development team and what went on behind the scenes of the first iPhone introduction to the public. I used the story as a reading comprehension exercise in a unit called "Behind the scenes". This could be used as a reading comprehension exercise related to technology, busi...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: others
Downloads: 55
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Charlotte Sometimes
My class studied the theme of Time and Time Travel. I was looking for a text on the subject of Time Travel to use as an unseen test and came across the story of Charlotte Sometimes which seems to cover the theme of Time Travel as well as several other issues we discussed: book reviews, book covers, etc. I adapted some information I found on the web...
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: Choose
Downloads: 5
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Compare and Contrast Two Children from around the world
This is an exercise using Compare and Contrast - a higher order thinking skill. These are two descriptions of two girls from two different countries (Japan and France)which the children need to compare. Not all the information about one girl has an equivalent in the other description. The children should search for the appropriate information.
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Level: elementary
Age: 11-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 74
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Dave Chapelle - Cloze
This cloze about the comedian Dave Chapelle includes an answer key. This cloze was given as a test following a unit called "the serious side of laughter" in which we studied about the structure of jokes, comedians, stand up comedy, cultural differences of humor.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 21
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English Test (Advanced 4th Grade or 5th Grade)
This is a test I wrote for my very advanced 4th Grade but which can be easily adapted to suit the 5th Grade. The vocabulary covered (from Chapters 6 and 7 of the book "Freddy�s world plus") is: rooms of the house, earth, space, planet, royal family. I erased all Hebrew from the test but you should include instructions in your language and add trans...
Level: elementary
Age: 10-17
Type: Choose
Downloads: 7
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Andy Warhol
Following my students questions about Andy Warhol I prepared this presentation using adapted information from children web sites about art. Credit is given on the first page of the presentation. The information is about Andy Warhol�s personality, his art and its meaning, his paintings, mass product...
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Downloads: 92
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Cat Cafe in Japan
Many pictures and some text about cat cafes in Japan. Very interesting for children to read about and can open a discussion about pets around the world and the connection between housing facilities, character traits, animals, etc.
Level: advanced
Age: 9-14
Downloads: 26
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Christopher Columbus Discovers America
This presentation was prepared as part of a unit called "Explorers". Presentation provides background and general information + pictures of Christopher Columbus first trip to America. Last page includes modern day criticism of Columbus treatment of the Indians. If you don�t want to go into this subj...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Downloads: 55
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Is this art?
This presentation deals with the issue of ART. What is art? who decides what is art? No answers are given to these questions but there are enough art works presented to provoke a conversation on this topic. The presentation includes several definitions given to the subject by different people and d...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Downloads: 116
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Schools in Japan
After teaching my 5th grade about a girl from Japan I needed some pictures about schools in Japan in order to show the differences between our schools. This presentation is what I came up with. The pictures and texts are taken from different web sites about Japanese schools.
Level: elementary
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 23
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Small Talk
This presentation can comprise a whole lesson. You should combine it with group work as instructed in the PPT (where I write "Discuss in small groups). The teacher is welcome to add small anecdotes to make the instructions vivid and clear to the listeners.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Downloads: 22
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The story of Lord Sandwich
The (short) story of Lord Sandwich in very easy English. There is a picture to accompany every sentence. Appropriate for beginners.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-12
Downloads: 88
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The Wizard of Oz (new version)
An introduction to the beautiful story (and movie) presenting information about the author, Kansas and its special characteristics portrayed in the book (the prairie, the tornado) + historical background. This is a new version of a Power Point Presentation I made a year ago. Upon teaching this story...
Level: elementary
Age: 11-17
Downloads: 25
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The Wizard of Oz - Introduction Presentation
This is an introduction to the Wizard of Oz, giving some general information about the book, the author, the movie and some of the basic concepts of the book (the Kansas Cyclone, Kansas prairie, memorable quotes from the movie, etc.). I used this presentation before I started teaching the first chap...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 13
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Where is the Love (lesson presentation)
I have always thought that the Black Eyed Peas "Where is the Love" song is full of interesting images and icons. I think there is a lot to discuss in this poem. There is a lot of religious terminology I want my classes to be familiar with besides a host of modern terms such as the "KKK", Bloods, usa...
Level: elementary
Age: 13-17
Downloads: 41
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