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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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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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Freedom Riders
Here is a worksheet for the powerful, award-winning PBS documentary "Freedom Riders" about young people who set out to change the world and did! Despite attempts by the Kennedy administration and Rev. Martin Luther King to get them to give up their dangerous ride on public buses through the deep South in 1961, they persisted, risking their lives, g...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 33
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Monty Python - Australian Wines
There are 3 different worksheets here of various levels of difficulty (plus the transcription that I made myself) of Eric Idle�s satirical "praise" of Australian Wines. I usually don�t tell my students that it is a spoof, and then at the end ask them if the speaker has a positive or negative opinion of the wines.
Please note that "chunder" is Aust...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 12
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Who Gets a Transplant?
This exercise generates a lot of speaking. Students work in small groups of 4 or 5 discussing which 2 of the 5 patients will receive a life-saving liver transplant. (Two of the patients are loosely based on real people.)
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 30
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Numb3rs - Pilot episode
This is a worksheet 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 found o...
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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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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Seinfeld - Pool Guy
Worksheet for "Seinfeld," Season 7, Episode 8. In this episode, Jerry can�t get away from a new acquaintance. I used the font Fenice Light Italic for the worksheet title.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7
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Monty Python - Dead Parrot Sketch
Monty Python�s "The Parrot Sketch" was listed in Time Magazine�s special millennium edition as the the 3rd funniest sketch of the 20th Century. This worksheet helps students understand the difficult working class accent, rapid delivery, and difficult vocabulary (mostly the numerous synonyms for death). There are 5 versions of this sketch that I kno...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 71
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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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