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Jonas Brothers Reading I
Designed to appeal to teenaged girls, this worksheet was engaging and required students to infer meaning from context. It is good practice for the reading skill.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 58
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Advertisement - Sports Bar
This is a speaking task as well - students need to present/pitch their advertisement to the rest of the class. This is great as a group work activity but is equally effective done individually. Included are marking rubrics for both speaking and writing sections.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 26
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Accidentally in Love - Counting Crows
This is not just a listening task - this is a reading task as well using a concert advertisment for Counting Crows. My students love this as it gives the task some authenticity. The listening task is not only a cloze passage but offers practice in editing, and listening for sequence. There are two links to you tube here so that you have a audio-vis...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 71
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Listening task - You Gotta Be - Des`ree
Very good listening practice, not just a cloze passage, has listening for sequence as well.
This is not only a listening task. This also has a reading task attached as well - regarding Des`ree�s lawsuit against Beyonce, good for reading comprehension (finer details).
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 23
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Natales Song - Sia
This is great for inferring tone and mood. The main themes are friendship, support and sadness and this generates discussion amongst students. The tasks themselves are great practice and are a little more tricky than a cloze passage. I used this with pre-intermediate teens and they enjoyed it. From here we used the themes for anecdotal speaking tas...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 4
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Robert Pattinson Stinks!
This works well with difficult to motivate teens. It generates plenty of discussion. It engages because students are interested enough to read for detail. It works well for pre-intermediate too, good for practice.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 31
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London Still - Listening Task
I used this song for pre-intermediate students. We had to discuss some expressions before the listening. It is great to infer mood and tone.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 15
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The Backpacker
This is a great activity to help readers infer tone from a text. It generates a lot of discussion.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 8
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Fairy Tale
The classes I have worked this task with have loved it. They have really twisted the fairy tale and presented using costumes etc - they were fully engaged. It is a great confidence builder, fosters creative thinking and problems solving skills as well as allows students to use the language. It can be used for lower intermediate students too. It was...
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 7
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Fractured Ghost Story
This is a creative writing task. It can be extended into a speaking task as well if students are asked to retell thier ghost stories (this can be a lot of fun if the atmosphere is good ie, sitting in a circle, lights dimmed etc.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 12
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