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Bad PowerPoint
Few things are as effective as satire in teaching people presentation techniques (or most other things!).
Don McMillan�s funny "Bad PowerPoint" or "Death by PowerPoint" video, which can be found on YouTube or ordered from his website, is an excellent way to teach students (uh, and teachers, too!) how NOT to do their PowerPoint slides.
It is b...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 16
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Debate over Gun Control
From CBS News, here is a report on the debate over Gun Control after the mass shooting in an Aurora, Colorado movie theater. (I used the font CableDignbats for the CBS logo.) You can view this online at http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57477294/colo-shooting-re-ignites-gun-control-debate/?tag=cbsnewsMainColumnArea
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 43
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Sinking Ice Lesson Plan
Water expands when it freezes. What if it contracted like other matter? Get students to work in groups to list all the changes in the world that would occur if this were true. This is realistic practice of the conditional tenses that leads to much discussion. Would the sea level rise or drop? For older students studying science.
Level: intermediate
Age: 17-100
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 3
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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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Numb3rs - Pilot episode
This is a worksheet to episode 1 of the first season of the excellent American TV drama show, "Numb3rs," which is about an FBI agent and his math genius brother, who uses mathematics to solve crimes. This show is very popular with my science and engineering students for both the math and the human drama. Support material for the math can be found o...
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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Moving House (Flow Chart)
Using the flow chart on page 2, students work together in small groups to organise a move. Grammar points include "Before/After + -ing." (No set solution, however.)
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 10
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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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Drama Role Plays
Give card with an occupation/activity to each student. They mill around talking to each other, but WITHOUT telling anyone else what their job is. They must try to find a partner by asking questions like, �Can I help you?�, �You seem to be looking for someone,� etc.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 8
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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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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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