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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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Big Bang Theory: Maternal Capacitance
This is one of the funniest episodes of "The Big Bang Theory" from Season 2. (I used the font Impact for the title, which is the same as used for the picture (although slightly modified).
To start the class off, I cut up the descriptions from page 2 and paste a few of them in the hallway about 3 meters from the classroom door. The class is divid...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 65
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Great Presentation Resources
Here is a handout with useful resources for students to help them with their class presentations. Many of the websites listed come from Mark Powell, who has written 2 excellent books for English students on giving presentations. You may need to change the fonts in order for everything to fit onto 1 page.
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: others
Downloads: 61
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Numb3rs - Uncertainty Principle
This program is a big hit with science and engineering students.
I used Helvetica Neue Light for the title, the same font as the one used for the title sequence. The most important words for students to remember are in bold.
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 1
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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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My Blackberry Is Not Working
There are 2 possible ways to use this very funny video from the BBC:
1) As a traditional listening execise, have the students watch this video, discuss the main ideas briefly then hand out the gapped worksheet and ask them to fill in as many of the blanks as they can remember. Then play the video clip again and let them fill in the remaining gaps...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 52
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Tom Lehrer - Pollution
A gap-fill for a very funny song satirizing pollution by Tom Lehrer. The song is as topical today as it was 50 years ago.
His songs are available on the Internet, the iTunes store, and Amazon (sung by him and a version from the musical "TomFoolery.")
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6
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Elephant Jokes
Students have to match the questions and answers to these corny jokes about elephants. I used the free font Critters (what else?) for the titles.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 16
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Presentation Feedback Cards
These cards are for peer feedback to classmates who are giving presentations. Print out the cards, preferably onto colored paper (a different color for each of the 5 cards), and cut them up. (Laminate them if you wish.) Each speaker then gives out 1 card to each member of the audience (including a card for the teacher!) according to the type of fee...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 5
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Monty Python - Lumberjack Song
Here is a worksheet and lyrics to Monty Python�s famous "Lumberjack Song."
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 11
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