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Everyday Use - Questions
Discussion questions for Alice Walker�s brilliant short story about conflict between a daughter�s modern values and her mother�s traditional values.
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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Strangers in the Night
Here are 2 exercises around the song, leading up to a fun role-play of 2 strangers meeting in the night.
I begin by having the students working in pairs to join together phrases from the song that are on the slips of paper. Then I play the song so they can complete the task. Next give them the worksheet with the gaps, and ask them to try to fill i...
Level: elementary
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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Elvis Presley - In the Ghetto
Certainly one of Elvis Presley�s most moving songs.
There are 2 worksheets here. The first one is a gapped text (interesting to let the students predict the missing words before listening), and then an updated grammar exercise where the students have to supply the correct simple past verbs in a prose summary of the story. There is also an answer...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 31
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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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Scientific Literacy
Several years ago an article in "Newsweek" comparing science education in countries around the world ran a companion article listing the most essential scientific vocabulary for high school students. This was easily transformed into a vocabulary exercise where the students are given the definitions and have to supply the terms (which are provided o...
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 9
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Memory
Susan Boyle, Barbra Streisand, and Elaine Paige have all sung this beautiful song from "Cats." With this worksheet, students predict the grammatical words in each blank, and then either listen to the song or work in groups of 3s dictating the correct answers to each other.
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 2
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Elephant Orphanage
This 12-minute video news report about an elephant orphanage in Africa and the woman who has devoted her life to saving elephants is always a favorite of my students (intermediate and above). You can see it at http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=2294561n&tag=related;photovideo>. If you would like the crossword puzzle of the vocabulary, send me a...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 12
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Ways to Turn Men Down
In this FUN exercise, have the students work individually to match the pick-up/chat-up lines with the responses. Then have the females (or just 4 of them) sit in front of the class while the males take turns reading one of the pick-up/chat-up lines to one of the girls. The girl designated by the guy then reads out her reply. In case it is wrong, as...
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7
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Telephone Encounter
Lots of discussion in pairs, threes, or fours about our use of the telephone. You may wish to change the font so that everything fits onto one page. (I used Baskerville.)
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 21
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Who Was the Murderer?
In this brain teaser, students work to find out who the murderer was. There is a worksheet to help students with the deduction process. I no longer remember where I found this, but it was YEARS ago, and I have completely reformatted it.
Level: elementary
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 73
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