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Environmental Concerns - (Reading Activity)
I�ve prepared this reading comprehension activity based on the article "The Nightmare Scenario", an interview with Tom Flannery (Speak Up magazine, nr 242). I hope you�ll enjoy it!
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 3
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AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH - ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS #2 (Listening Activity)
Last year (2007), we were discussing the effects of global warming in class and we had already read many articles, listened to an interview with Tom Flannery and guess what? I�ve discovered that teenagers are not worried with the environment and the consequences of global warming upon it. So, I took two excerpts from the scene "The solutions are in...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 44
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PLANET WARNING: WATER SHORTAGE
As we, teachers, are supposed to bring to class authentic material, so that our students can deal with real language, I�ve prepared this listening exercise. I hope you like it!
OBS: The audio can be downloaded on the site given with the transcript.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 38
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Friends - "The One Where They All Turn Thirty" #2 (listening activity)
My students like "Friends" and what�s better to work with phrasal verbs and other structures from everyday English than the episodes of this sitcom? I showed the students only excerpts of the episode (check the script in the file) and it was perfect. it was the first time in my life I�ve seen students laughing during an evaluation! This is the sec...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 43
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Storytelling - scary spooky story (listening)
I was teaching my students the use of the past tenses in narratives, especially the Past Perfect Tense and the Past Simple and after working with a short scary story from a book, I decided to use another one as an evaluation. I�ve found the audio in the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P11fo00WLMM .
Unfortunately, there was no transcript, so...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 28
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Future Arrangements
A video activity to introduce the notion of future arrangements for the Present Continuous Tense.
Level: elementary
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 11
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Biography - Noel Rosa
I was teaching biography and I decided to add something of our Brazilian culture. I wrote a short biography for Noel Rosa, one of the most famous Brazilian singers and composers - a remarkable name in the Samba tradition. I hope you enjoy it!
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 8
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Silly Science Cartoon (Listening Activity)
If you want to talk about science in a funny but helpful way, use this old cartoon video and enjoy it with your students.
The link to the video is: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xr8nx_silly-science-cartoon_shortfilms
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 4
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Diagnosis- review (for beginners)
Every year, in the first class, we usually give our students a diagnostic test, in order to see what they have really learned last year. Based on the problems I observed in their tests, I prepared these review exercises to be done and correct in class, in only one class.
So, if your students have the same problems, it�s a good suggestion to work ...
Level: elementary
Age: 12-14
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 9
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FRIENDS -
It�s another incredible Friends� episode. It�s great to discuss the difference between (scientific) fact and opinion, as well as to discuss the boundaries of our beliefs. I have included the script so that you can find the scenes, between Ross and Pheebs mainly, easily.
The title of the episode is "The One Where Heckles Dies".
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 12
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