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Alistair Cooke�s America - Home from Home
Part 3 of legendary BBC correspondent�s documentary history of the U.S. This episode looks at the Southern, Northern, and Middle colonies and the origins of the American identity. On sale at Amazon UK and from the BBC. For upper-intermediate & advanced students.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7
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Fish Called Wanda Discussion Questions
After watching "A Fish Called Wanda," students work in groups of 3 or 4 and choose questions about the film to discuss together. (I like the idea of allowing students to choose which questions they would like to discuss.)
Some other teachers have already uploaded very good worksheets with comprehension questions and other activities that can be us...
Level: intermediate
Age: 17-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 10
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Madman on a Bridge
This exercise is done in 4 phases.
1) Read the problem together as a class, and the students work individually to rank the 6 people according to their responsibility for the woman�s death.
2) The students work in small groups of 4 to 6 people comparing their answers and explaining their choices.
3) Hand out the discussion questions and have the ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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Life in Victorian Britain - Worksheet
This excellent documentary on Victorian Britain gives good insight into all aspects of life in 19th century Britain. The vocabulary load is high, but advanced students find it gripping. The most notable sections (which can be used in isolation) of this 50-minute film are Rural and Urban Poverty, Workhouses, and Innovation and Invention). (I showed ...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 11
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Monty Python - Australian Wines
There are 3 different worksheets here of various levels of difficulty (plus the transcription that I made myself) of Eric Idle�s satirical "praise" of Australian Wines. I usually don�t tell my students that it is a spoof, and then at the end ask them if the speaker has a positive or negative opinion of the wines.
Please note that "chunder" is Aust...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 12
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Lily Tomlin - Mr. Veedle
Here is Lily Tomlin�s great sketch of telephone operator Ernestine calling a customer about his phone bill, even threatening to have him beat up and to publicize 96 hours of his recorded phone calls. The humor comes in part from a "small" person using their power.
This comes from the CDs "This Is a Recording" and "20th Century Masters - The Mill...
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 1
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Occupational Misfit
With these puns, students work in pairs to match a man�s jobs with explanations of why he failed at them. There is a worksheet for each pair, plus a set of cut-up slips of papers with the explanations.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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Down in Australia
The Sydney Olympics were a long time ago, but matching these stupid questions from visitors with the sarcastic answers can be fun. (Students can provide their own answers where none are provided.)
As a follow-up, students can work in pairs or small groups to make up stupid questions about their country, e.g. What time does the Bastille prison open...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 9
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Fawlty Towers - Gourmet Night vocab
This is a vocabulary review exercise after the students have seen the episode "Gourmet Night" from the hilarious British TV series, "Fawlty Towers."
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7
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Phrasal Verbs - Guessing Test
Here is a test to go along with the Phrasal Verbs - guessing worksheets that I also uploaded. There are 2 versions, A and B, to reduce the chance of students� copying from their neighbours.
Level: advanced
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 18
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