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The New Prison Governor
Based on a true (but very strange!) story, this surprising role play for upper-intermediate students leads the new prison governor to learn about a mass prison escape.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6
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Woody Allen - The Lost Generation
In the 1960s Woody Allen did stand-up comedy and recorded 3 comedy albums (available on iTunes and Amazon). Here he talks about his crazy adventures with the Lost Generation of the 1920s, including Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Picasso. He incorporated some of this sketch into his film "Midnight in Paris." [Please note that the font Zeal is needed for...
Level: elementary
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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Big Bang Theory - Hawking Excitation
Here is a worksheet to go along with one of the latest episodes of the great "The Big Bang Theory" with guest star British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, considered to be the most influential scientist since Albert Einstein. (If you are not familiar with Stephen Hawking, do have a look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking) My student...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 29
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Arrested Development - Top Banana
This brilliant American TV series was a BIG hit with critics and my (B2 and C1 levels) students alike, the story of a wealthy dysfunctional family that has hit hard times when the father is arrested and his son has to take over the business while keeping his lazy relatives from taking what little money there is left.
Season 1, Episode 2.
The ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 3
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Who Was the Murderer?
In this brain teaser, students work to find out who the murderer was. There is a worksheet to help students with the deduction process. I no longer remember where I found this, but it was YEARS ago, and I have completely reformatted it.
Level: elementary
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 73
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Poison - Video
Here�s a worksheet for the 24-minute Alfred Hitchcock TV film, "Poison," based on a short story by British author Roald Dahl. What is remarkable is that for once the film is better than the written short story. Added to the film are the rivalry between the 2 main characters and Harry�s alcoholism.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 20
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Memory
Susan Boyle, Barbra Streisand, and Elaine Paige have all sung this beautiful song from "Cats." With this worksheet, students predict the grammatical words in each blank, and then either listen to the song or work in groups of 3s dictating the correct answers to each other.
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 2
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Redneck Athletes
Many people make fun of the "rednecks" in the U.S. (Comedians Jeff Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy have built their careers portraying these conservative and poorly educated people.) Here students have to match the questions and answers, thus giving some insight into the stereotyped rednecks.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 4
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Present Perfect Lying
This is an exercise for practicing the Present Perfect and Simple Past, as well as questions.
Hand out Worksheets A and B. Explain to the students that they have to answer yes to each question �Have you ever �?�.
Demonstrate the idea by asking a student to answer yes to the next question: "Have you ever been to Greece?" (Student then replies ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6
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Tex Avery Cartoon - Cuckoo Clock
This Tex Avery cartoon has little dialogue, but can be used to focus on clauses with �after� + gerund.
It is easily available on the Internet, including
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W24mULoKR34>
Present the vocabulary that will new or troublesome for your students.
After showing the cartoon to your students once, hand out an envelope with the...
Level: elementary
Age: 12-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 10
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