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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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Past stories - Past Perfect
A dialog exercise to practice the use of the Past Perfect Tense in alignment with other past tenses in a story in the past. It practices the use of subordination in the past.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6
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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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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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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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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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Used to, Chris Daughtry (song activity)
I used this song last year with my intermediate students. Chris Daughtry was not the winner from one of the editions of American Idol, but I liked his voice and his style. So, as I had to review the structure �used to� recently taught, I decided to use a song and also work with reading comprehension and improve the students� vocabulary. To my surpr...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 8
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Writing paragraphs (Writing Activity)
A quick activity when teachers want to stimulate their elementary students to write a small paragraph. After doing the two first activities, students have to write about themselves. They feel excited (specially teens)because they feel secure about their learning ("I can write a paragraph!" "I know how to write in English!").
Level: elementary
Age: 3-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 14
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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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