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Billy and Sammy
I took the well-known Shirley Jackson short story CHARLES and simplified and changed it to produce this story. Suggestions teaching: Ask students to read the story outside class. In class, pair the students and ask them retell the story. Then repair the students and give them the questions. After ten minutes, repair the students again, and ask them...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 3
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QUESTIONS: Guns, Germs, and Steel - 2017 Afterword
After reading Jared Diamond�s 2017 Afterword, have students discuss/write answers to these questions.
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
Type:
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BLACKY--The Runaway Water Buffalo
Written by the same student who wrote ESCAPE, this story describes the family�s water buffalo and her eventual return, but not before the family consults the writer�s deceased grandmother.
Students should prepare the text before class and then ask and answer questions in class in pairs.
My second year English majors had a lot to say about t...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 3
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China�s Tujia Ethnic Minority
China�s Tujia ethnic group is introduced in a timed reading with exercise.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 16
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�Ant Tribes� in China AND Ten Bad Habits of Chinese College Students
There are two texts in this lesson. One is about /ant tribes/ and one is about bad habits of Chinese college students. Both are adaptations from materials on the internet. I have given the original web links in the two texts. I assign these texts to the students for outside reading. In class I first take the texts from the students. Next, I pair st...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: others
Downloads: 5
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STEP AWAY FROM PARADISE - reading, speaking, and listening exercises
These questions are based on/relevant to: Konchok Gelek. 2018. REVIEW: A STEP AWAY FROM PARADISE. Asian Highlands Perspectives vol 51; and Thomas K. Shor. 2012.A Step Away from Paradise: A Tibetan Lama�s Extraordinary Journey to a Land of Immortality. [Kindle version].
Students are assigned to read the review and the book, or portions of the ...
Level: advanced
Age: 13-100
Type:
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Penguin Reader, Level 2. BLACK BEAUTY.
Penguin Reader, Level 2. BLACK BEAUTY. After students read this story, divide them into pairs or small groups. For example, if there are four students in a group, divide the questions into four parts and have them ask and answer.
Level: elementary
Age: 7-100
Type:
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THE PROPRIETRESS: Questions about the short story by Li Yiyun
The questions in this worksheet are for Li Yiyun�s short story THE PROPRIETRESS. A Shanghai reporter goes to Mrs. Jin�s (the main character) town to interview Susu, whose husband has been recently executed. Susu has sparked interest because, before her husband�s execution, she asked the court to allow her to have a child with her husband. Li explor...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 2
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ESCAPE: CHRONICLES OF MODERN CHINESE CHILDHOOD
ESCAPE was written by one of my students as part of a large autobiographical exercise. It is at a lower intermediate level and should be good material for students anywhere in the world. The questions at the end are designed to encourage oral fluency (students should be put in pairs). There are questions specific to the story and also questions abo...
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 4
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Marcel and the White Star -- PENGUIN LEVEL 1 -- 50 comprehension questions
50 questions over this story - MARCEL AND THE WHITE STAR. Divide the students in pairs. Give one student the even questions and the other student the odd questions. They should ask and answer. Good supplemental exercise to the downloadable activity worksheets available here https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uac...
Level: elementary
Age: 10-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7
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