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Citizen Kane - Discussion Questions
Some discussion questions for students to think about while they are watching and studying the great cinema classic, "Citizen Kane."
You will have to adjust the font size so that everything fits onto 1 page, which will allow you to save paper by cutting each sheet in half.
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 16
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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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Forced Choices Interviews
Here is a magical exercise that always seems to change the atmosphere in a class. Give half the students paper A and half B, and have them get into pairs. Their task is to take turns asking each other, "Are you more like �blue� or more like �yellow�?" The answers tend to become deep without becoming embarrassing or personal. My inspirations for thi...
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7
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Numb3rs - Pilot episode Transcription
This is a transcript script 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...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: others
Downloads: 8
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Who Owns the Zebra?
In this reading and discussion exercise, students try to solve this brain teaser in pairs. If students have trouble working out the answer, suggest they make a grid (like in the solution). (I got this brain teaser from elsewhere, but I changed most of the nationalities, all the drinks to healthy juices, and replaced their filthy smoking habits with...
Level: elementary
Age: 11-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 88
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Tex Avery Cartoon - Red Hot Riding Hood
You can find this famous Tex Avery cartoon on several sites:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn7Su0A-inA (high quality)
http://video.google.fr/videoplay?docid=8039477657790445932&q=genre3Aanimation+tex+avery
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8039477657790445932#
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psGdL4md3Ig
With the students, you might g...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 30
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Science Fact or Science Fiction?
This is a quiz about science for upper-intermediate students based on questions taken from "The Naked Scientists" podcasts of the BBC radio programme. Here students work in groups of 3 or 4 to discuss whether each statement is Science Fact or Science Fiction. After the groups have made their choices, the teacher conducts a "TV Quiz Show" where each...
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 28
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Blue Mountain State: It�s Called Hazing
This was a successful American sitcom about American college athletes and fraternity members, but because of the language and references to sex, it is appropriate ONLY for those 18 and over. My students requested this, but because I had doubts about its appropriateness, I did a survey (included) to see if anyone would object. My students loved it. ...
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 10
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Alabama Literacy Test
This is the literacy test administered in Alabama in 1965 to keep blacks from registering to vote. The examiners could ask prospective voters 2 or 60 questions, and a single wrong answer could prevent you from registering to vote if you were black (but not if you were white.) This literacy test (and background information) are available elsewhere o...
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 17
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Basic Laser Theory (Prepositions)
Students try to find the missing prepositions. (Sorry about the background of the picture on the correction sheet looking black, but it prints out fine!)
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 9
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