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Extraverts Could Cause Problems on a Mission to Mars
This is both a speaking and a reading exercise with the discussion about introverts and extroverts and their suitability for a long mission to Mars leading into to reading the article from "Scientific American."
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7
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Being There
Here are worksheets for the exquisite film, "Being There," starring Peter Sellers and Shirley MacLaine. It is an intelligent film and as funny today as when it was made 3 decades ago. (The worksheets were made by another colleague and myself.)
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7
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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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Tom Lehrer - Pollution
A gap-fill for a very funny song satirizing pollution by Tom Lehrer. The song is as topical today as it was 50 years ago.
His songs are available on the Internet, the iTunes store, and Amazon (sung by him and a version from the musical "TomFoolery.")
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6
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Everyday Use - Notes
Some notes and teaching ideas for Alice Walker�s brilliant short story about conflict between a daughter�s modern values and her mother�s traditional values. Send me a personal message if you would like me to send you a copy of the short story.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 6
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The Joys of Hugging
The purpose of this FUN exercise is to get students to ask a lot of yes/no questions to find out the meaning of "stogging" (hugging). Pass out 1 card to every 2 students. Give them a chance to read the card and then have them ask you yes/no questions about the meaning of "stogging," which is just a made-up word for "hugging." If they don�t succeed,...
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 6
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Asking Questions at a Lecture
This is a helpful list of expressions and tips for people attending academic conferences, extensively adapted (and reformatted) from a handout from the CRAPEL at the University of Nancy II, France.
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6
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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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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
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Short Answers
Short answers to questions are very complicated in English. Here is a summary of short answers and an interactive pairwork exercise that I extensively adapted, especially the practice part, where students have many, many choices in the questions that they ask.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6
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