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Bad PowerPoint
Few things are as effective as satire in teaching people presentation techniques (or most other things!).
Don McMillan�s funny "Bad PowerPoint" or "Death by PowerPoint" video, which can be found on YouTube or ordered from his website, is an excellent way to teach students (uh, and teachers, too!) how NOT to do their PowerPoint slides.
It is b...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 15
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Stranded on Desert Islands
This matching exercise jokes about national and cultural stereotypes. Best to use with students 18 years and older.
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 15
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Humorous Biographies
Most of the time, students write for the teacher. Here the students write humorous biographies of their classmates for their classmates AND their teacher to read. Have everyone write their name on a slip of paper, collect them, and have each student draw a name out of a hat, taking care to draw a second name if they happen to draw their own. (And w...
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 15
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What Women Want - Darcy�s Presentation
These are 2 worksheets for the scene in "What Women Want" where Darcy McGuire outlines her vision for the division as its new Vice-President. The first worksheet focuses on her techniques for giving presentations, while the second is a gapped transcript for listening comprehension (after which I have students read, trying to imitate her intonation ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 15
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Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue
With this popular, easy-to-understand song by Johnny Cash, students work in pairs to unscramble the story of a boy with a girl�s name into order. Then they listen to the song in order to check.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 15
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Why Can�t the English?
In "My Fair Lady," Professor Henry Higgins laments that no one speaks correct English. Here the students identify the different nationalities/countries accused of massacring the language.
Level: elementary
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 15
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Chairing a Conference
This is a helpful list of expressions and tips for people chairing an academic conference, extensively adapted from handouts (and reformatted) from the CRAPEL at the University of Nancy II, France.
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 15
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Kate & Arthur - Present Perfect Lives
Information about Kate and Arthur is given on page 1, and then the exercises on page 2 highlight the differences between the present perfect and simple past tenses within the context of this couple�s lives. (The dates need to be updated every year.)
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 14
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NASA Exercise
This group discussion exercise was used by NASA in the past as one of their tests to select astronauts. Today it is used by companies to prove that working in teams (usually!) produces better results than working individually. Here I have reformatted the exercise so that students can easily calculate their individual scores and their group�s score....
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 14
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Find Someone Who (Present Perfect)
Here is a short exercise to practice the Present Perfect, along with short answers (Yes, I have, No I haven�t).
Level: elementary
Age: 10-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 14
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