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Dear Ann Landers/Dear Abby
Here are some letters to American agony aunts (and twin sisters), Ann Landers and Abigail van Buren. Distribute a "Problem" card and an "Advice" card randomly to each student, who study the cards before they are taken back by the teacher. The students have to circulate around the classroom and summarize "their" problem to another student, who then ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 11
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Rowan Atkinson - Return of Constable Savage
An encore from Rowan Atkinson�s first TV show, "Not the Nine O�Clock News," we see the conscientious Constable Savage reprimanded again for arresting the same man 1,254 times, including for "impersonating a member of the general public." The hard-working constable has also arrested the man�s wife and son for "breaking and entering a boiled egg."
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Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 11
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Conditional Snakes & Ladders
In this grammar game, students have to determine which sentences are correct and which need to be changed. The full instructions are given on page 2. I used the font Zeal for the arrows in the squares on the left and right sides of the game board. (Inspired by "Grammar Games" by Mario Rinvolucri, CUP.)
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 18
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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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Seinfeld - The Contest
This Emmy-winning episode is considered to be the third funniest moment on American television. Because of the subject matter, however, it should ONLY be used with students 18 and older. The title font used here is Fenice Light Italic, the same as the show.
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 13
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Arrested Development - Top Banana
This brilliant American TV series was a BIG hit with critics and my (B2 and C1 levels) students alike, the story of a wealthy dysfunctional family that has hit hard times when the father is arrested and his son has to take over the business while keeping his lazy relatives from taking what little money there is left.
Season 1, Episode 2.
The ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 3
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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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Thank You, M�am - Questions
Langston Hughes is best known as a poet of the Harlem Renaissance during the 1920s, but here are some discussion questions to a fabulous short story written in the 1950s. As a follow-up (homework, for example), I ask students to write a letter from the boy to the woman 10 or 15 years after the story takes place.
Send me a private message with yo...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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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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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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