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Molly Malone - Song and Information
When I listened to the song more closely once, to the text and verse, but not to the tune, I became aware first time who is described in the song �Molly Malone� at all. Some years ago, I saw her statue in Dublin, but never thought of her as the woman she is said to be at her time. The information might be quite interesting for some classes. Raise a...
Level: elementary
Age: 10-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 50
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The day America stops - Sports in the US and in other countries (2 pages)
This handout helps you to organise a discussion on sports (and TV habits) in general. After a little riddle and a few initial questions, students read a quite informative text about sports in the US (Super Bowl) which also helps them to compare with their own country. The language of the text is of elementary level. The discussion is up to your stu...
Level: elementary
Age: 11-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 15
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Daytona Beach, Florida, binge drinking and car racing - 2 pages with extra questions
This is a text that brings along the problem of binge drinking, but also the topic of beach races. Quite good topic for a discussion. Seems to be current in many countries nowadays. If your students are interested in car racing, it�s worth reading too. The language of the text is rather easy.
Elementary level.
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Level: elementary
Age: 13-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 33
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The TOOTH FAIRY - 2 pages with speaking activities
This nice little text helps you develop some speaking activities about the TOOT FAIRY. Either you work with kids who are loosing their teeth or you work with more adult students who remember loosing their teeth or their children loosing teeth, it is always a good introduction to the topic of the Tooth Fairy. I also gave a little background informat...
Level: elementary
Age: 8-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 34
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Everyday Heroes - 2 pages
Would your students like to be like Superman or other heroes? Or are they just interested in the topic of everyday heroes like Wesley Autrey who became one in NYC? Here is an interesting text for you to read with them and to talk about.
Elementary level.
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Level: elementary
Age: 10-17
Type: article
Downloads: 42
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Stars and Stripes - with Quiz (3 pages, key on p. 3)
Students read a text about the history of the American flag and do a little quiz afterwards. Not too challenging, but quite interesting.
Elementary level.
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Level: elementary
Age: 10-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 64
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Michelle Obama - Text and Teaching Plan (3 pages)
This is a text on Michelle Obama with some ideas how to use it on the third page (including a little game).
Nice topic to talk about and quite current.
Elementary.
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Level: elementary
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 34
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Flower of Scotland
This is the song with background information about its content.
Nice for any Scotland unit.
Elementary.
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Level: elementary
Age: 8-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 31
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Scottish/English wordpairs - 6 pages of activity cards
This comes along with quite a couple of words that exist in English, but are of Scottish origin, or do not even exist in English as they are commonly used only in Scottish.
Students match the pairs (best if they work in groups).
Good warm-up activity for Scotland unit.
Funny, entertaining.
Elementary.
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Level: elementary
Age: 8-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 11
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Couple vanish after bank�s �4m mistake - practising conditional 2, newspaper article (3 pages)
This comes with an article from the Independent of 22 May to talk about a couple who got �4m by mistake from a bank and vanished then. Good topic to talk about money and using conditional II.
Amazing story, interesting, offers a lot of stuff for speculation. Also good for talks on ethics.
Challenging. Intermediate level.
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Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 14
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