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Tex Avery Cartoon - Symphony in Slang
This excellent cartoon by Tex Avery is a great teaching tool for upper-intermediate and advanced students because of its huge assortment of slang and idioms like being short-haned and raining cats and dogs. It is available here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot92Yfovvvg
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x45xby_mgm-cartoon-symphony-in-slang-1951_s...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 55
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RSVP - Scientists� Ball
Here�s an enjoyable pairwork exercise where students match the names of famous scientists with their responses to an invitation to a Scientists� Ball to celebrate Albert Einstein�s being named "Time" Magazine�s "Person of the Century." This is based on an e-mail that circulated on the Internet, but several of the contributions are MINE, along with ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 10
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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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The Tell-Tale Heart - Ideas & Text
Here are a few (original?) ideas to get students involved and talking about Edgar Allen Poe�s famous short story, along with the text to the story on pages 2 and 3. The role cards that I uploaded along with this are related to exercise 3 in this lesson plan.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 52
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Friends - The One after I Do
A wedding reception where everything seems to go wrong.
Season 8, Episode 1.
I used Gabriel Weiss�s Friends Font for the titles.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 17
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Friends - Where It All Began Shapes
Vocabulary exercise for after viewing "The One Where It All Began," from Season 1, Episode 1 of "Friends." Students individually assign a character to each shape according to whatever criteria they want. (It mustn�t be random, however!) Then they attribute the adjectives to the characters, writing the words inside the shape. Because everyone will p...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 13
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Present Simple & Continuous - Usually & Now
Here is an exercise that clearly differentiates uses of the present simple (usually) vs. present continuous (now).
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 42
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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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Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue
With this popular, easy-to-understand song by Johnny Cash, students work in pairs to unscramble the story of a boy with a girl�s name into order. Then they listen to the song in order to check.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 15
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Humorous Biographies
Most of the time, students write for the teacher. Here the students write humorous biographies of their classmates for their classmates AND their teacher to read. Have everyone write their name on a slip of paper, collect them, and have each student draw a name out of a hat, taking care to draw a second name if they happen to draw their own. (And w...
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 15
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