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dennypackard
Denny Packard
France



Born in the United States, I taught in France for over 40 years (plus many summers in Britain and the U.S.). I taught English primarily to young adults at University level, but I have also taught French secondary school pupils, business people, teachers, prison inmates, and drug addicts. My students have come from 93 countries around the world.

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Science Fact or Science Fiction?
This is a quiz about science for upper-intermediate students based on questions taken from "The Naked Scientists" podcasts of the BBC radio programme. Here students work in groups of 3 or 4 to discuss whether each statement is Science Fact or Science Fiction. After the groups have made their choices, the teacher conducts a "TV Quiz Show" where each...
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 28


 
Solar Roadways
This is a very interesting video about replacing asphalt roads with solar panels made of GLASS in order to generate enough electricity to supply the whole United States and most of the world. It should really interest science and engineering students. This worksheet has 1 page of vocabulary and 1 page of listening comprehension and discussion quest...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 13


 
Telling the Time
Here is a worksheet for telling the time followed by some practice questions, which you can adapt for your students. (This was inspired by a very old handout from the C.R.A.P.E.L. at the University of Nancy II in France.)
Level: elementary
Age: 8-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 4


 
Giving the Date
Here is a worksheet of the days and dates followed by some practice questions, which you can adapt for your students. (This was inspired by a very old handout from the CRAPEL at the University of Nancy II in France.)
Level: elementary
Age: 8-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6


 
Who Gets a Transplant?
This exercise generates a lot of speaking. Students work in small groups of 4 or 5 discussing which 2 of the 5 patients will receive a life-saving liver transplant. (Two of the patients are loosely based on real people.)
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 27


 
Don McMillan - What Is Pi?
Comedian and engineer Don McMillan talks about various views of pi. The short video recording can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_yMRGF5DCI http://www.musictours.biz/music/video/don-mcmillan-what-is-pi/2_yMRGF5DCI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YW3xFZHb8w
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 3


 
Citizen Kane: News on the March
The newsreel at the beginning of "Citizen Kane" is one of the most difficult parts of the movie to understand, mostly because of its bombastic style and inverted subjects and verbs. (I usually leave the English subtitles on for this part of the film for my students.) This worksheet is to help them get the main points from the newsreel, which show t...
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7


 
Michael Jackson - We Are the World
With this song, the students have to list the positive and negative concepts that are mentioned in the song. For the 3 examples of student answers, I have used handwriting fonts, which you may change to standard fonts. (Please note that this is TWO pages. I don�t know why there are 3 pages here, one of them blank!) The page with the lyrics should b...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 3


 
Derek the Human iPod
"60 Minutes" has a fabulous story on Derek Paravicini, the human iPod (so called because once he hears a song, he can play it perfectly), who is a musical genius, but at the same time blind and severely retarded. (He cannot count to three or button his shirt.) You can view the 14-minute video here: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/07/27/60mi...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 11


 
Big Bang Theory: Maternal Capacitance
This is one of the funniest episodes of "The Big Bang Theory" from Season 2. (I used the font Impact for the title, which is the same as used for the picture (although slightly modified). To start the class off, I cut up the descriptions from page 2 and paste a few of them in the hallway about 3 meters from the classroom door. The class is divid...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 65

 

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