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The New Prison Governor
Based on a true (but very strange!) story, this surprising role play for upper-intermediate students leads the new prison governor to learn about a mass prison escape.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6
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Find Someone Who (Present Perfect)
Here is a short exercise to practice the Present Perfect, along with short answers (Yes, I have, No I haven�t).
Level: elementary
Age: 10-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 14
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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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Big Bang Theory - Hawking Excitation
Here is a worksheet to go along with one of the latest episodes of the great "The Big Bang Theory" with guest star British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, considered to be the most influential scientist since Albert Einstein. (If you are not familiar with Stephen Hawking, do have a look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking) My student...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 29
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Thank You, M�am - Questions
Langston Hughes is best known as a poet of the Harlem Renaissance during the 1920s, but here are some discussion questions to a fabulous short story written in the 1950s. As a follow-up (homework, for example), I ask students to write a letter from the boy to the woman 10 or 15 years after the story takes place.
Send me a private message with yo...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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Tim Burton�s "Vincent"
Here is a worksheet prepared by another teacher and myself for Tim Burton�s delightful first film, an animated short about a little boy interested in horror film actor Vincent Price, who actually narrates this film in verse. I used the fonts Garamond Narrow for the text and Shatter LET for the title.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 27
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Phrasal Verbs - Mutual Dictations
7 different exercises here for pair work dictations. Each student has half of a gapped dialogue illustrating a phrasal verb. The students read and dictate the missing words to each other.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 3
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Kate & Arthur - Present Perfect Lives
Information about Kate and Arthur is given on page 1, and then the exercises on page 2 highlight the differences between the present perfect and simple past tenses within the context of this couple�s lives. (The dates need to be updated every year.)
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 14
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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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Simon & Garfunkle - Richard Cory
Here is a fun exercise for Simon & Garfunkle�s song, �Richard Cory,� which is an adaptation of Edwin Arlington Robinson�s poem. Pass out strips of the lyrics, and ask the students in groups of 2s or 3s to assemble them in order to tell a story in poem form. (Don�t mention songs or music at this point.) Play some Simon & Garfunkle songs as backgroun...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 4
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