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Victor Borge - Inflationary Language
Comedian and pianist Victor Borge explains how inflation can affect English, where "before" becomes "befive." Here you can give the students either the original or the "inflated" version to "convert" before listening. This is a transcription that I made of his famous routine, which is available in audio and DVD formats from the iTunes store and Ama...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 1
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Petula Clark - Downtown
Petula Clark�s hit song from the 1960s. The focus is on the adjectives and the nouns that they modify.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 2
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Young Pakistani Hero Malala
Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai may possibly win the Nobel Peace Prize for her campaign for girls� education, for which she was targeted for assassination. She survived a gunshot wound to the head, and spoke at the United Nations in a very stirring speech given on her 16th birthday.
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50150808n (for this ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 38
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Burns & Allen - Willie�s Accident
George Burns and Gracie Allen were one of the greatest comedy teams ever, popular on radio, on TV, and in movies. Here are 3 worksheets. In 1 students work in pairs to try to match Gracie�s crazy responses to George�s remarks. (This is nearly impossible, but is a good introduction to a difficult listening exercise.) The other 2 are listening worksh...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 3
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Desperate Housewives Pilot
Vocabulary and comprehension questions from Season 1, Episode 1
This worksheet was designed with the fonts TypoUpright for the title (the same font used for the title on the show) and Garamond Narrow for the text so it fits onto a single A4 page. (Other fonts are possible). The most important words for students to remember are in bold.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 46
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Colloquialisms 1
The list of common colloquial expressions came from an old British coursebook, but I made it into an exercise that is challenging, but not impossible for upper-intermediate and advanced learners. Here students have to match the questions with replies.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 62
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Witness - 6 Characters
About 2/3s or 3/4s of the way through the film "Witness," distribute cards to the class and explain that this is their new identity. Give them some time to write questions they would like to ask other characters in the film while you go around giving help.
Then collect the role cards, and have the students stand up and walk around at a party. Th...
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 23
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Fawlty Towers - Waldorf Salad
This worksheet is a bit different from the standard listening comprehension worksheets for the British TV sitcom "Fawlty Towers." It could be used with the dialogue jumble that I uploaded with this worksheet.
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 18
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Harper Valley PTA
This country music ballad tells the story of hypocrisy in a small U.S. town. Students love the surprise ending.
In this worksheet students match the characters in the song with their wrongdoings.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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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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