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Abstract Role Play
"I believe that the *imaginary* is stronger than *science*, that *myth* is more convincing than *history*; that *dreams* are more powerful than *facts*; that *hope* has always triumphed over *experience*; that *life* is the only remedy to *worry*, and that *love* is stronger than *death*."
In this highly unusual exercise (which works very well wit...
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6
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Make or Do Questionnaire
Students work in pairs asking and answering questions about common situations using either DO or MAKE in their answers.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 13
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Achmed the Terrorist & Walter
Worksheet for Jeff Dunham�s Dummies, Walter and Achmed the Dead Terrorist. The video clip can be found on YouTube. Very funny. From "The Tonight Show" just after Christmas.
I used Serendipity for the title font. You may have to adjust the font size to get everything onto one page.
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 9
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Dear Ann Landers/Dear Abby
Here are some letters to American agony aunts (and twin sisters), Ann Landers and Abigail van Buren. Distribute a "Problem" card and an "Advice" card randomly to each student, who study the cards before they are taken back by the teacher. The students have to circulate around the classroom and summarize "their" problem to another student, who then ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 11
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Bob Newhart - King Kong
Bob Newhart�s funniest monologue of a very conscientious night guard wondering what to do as King Kong climbs the outside of the Empire State Building. This hilarious recording is available on CD and from the iTunes store for a very low price. (Probably on YouTube, too!)
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 4
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The Tell-Tale Heart - Pre-Reading ex.
Students are asked to make up a story using key words on these cards. They then tell the story to other students. Next they listen to a reading of Edgar Allen Poe�s "The Tell-Tale Heart" and place the cards in order as they hear them. (You can then have them read the story and study it in your normal way.)
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 38
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I Love Lucy - Lucy Does a Commercial
One of the very best episodes of "I Love Lucy." Although recorded more than 50 years ago and in black and white, the show still brings laughter to students young and old.
The title font is TraftonScript, a free font which can be found on the Internet. This is the same one as used in the show�s opening. (Available on YouTube.)
The most importa...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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Silent Letters
Students work individually or in pairs to identify the silent letters in each of these words.
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 22
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Telling the Time
Here is a worksheet for telling the time followed by some practice questions, which you can adapt for your students. (This was inspired by a very old handout from the C.R.A.P.E.L. at the University of Nancy II in France.)
Level: elementary
Age: 8-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 4
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Numb3rs - Pilot episode Transcription
This is a transcript script 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...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: others
Downloads: 8
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