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Lily Tomlin - Mr. Veedle
Here is Lily Tomlin�s great sketch of telephone operator Ernestine calling a customer about his phone bill, even threatening to have him beat up and to publicize 96 hours of his recorded phone calls. The humor comes in part from a "small" person using their power.
This comes from the CDs "This Is a Recording" and "20th Century Masters - The Mill...
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 1
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Lottery Winner
This is the true story of an ordinary man who wins the lottery. Students have to work together to suggest what he should do with his money and prepare a budget for him.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 10
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Lydia, The Tattooed Lady
Tattoos seem rather common today, but with this amusing song by comedian Groucho Marx, students have to identify and order all of Lydia�s tattoos, illustrating world history and geography. Groucho and his brothers may be less known today than they were generations back, but students enjoy this crazy song. It is easily available on the Internet, as ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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Madman on a Bridge
This exercise is done in 4 phases.
1) Read the problem together as a class, and the students work individually to rank the 6 people according to their responsibility for the woman�s death.
2) The students work in small groups of 4 to 6 people comparing their answers and explaining their choices.
3) Hand out the discussion questions and have the ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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Make or Do Questionnaire
Students work in pairs asking and answering questions about common situations using either DO or MAKE in their answers.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 13
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Malcolm in the Middle - The Red Dress
Here is a worksheet for an episode from Season 1 of the popular American sitcom, "Malcolm in the Middle."
I used the free font font Cleanhouse for the title, which is the same as that used on the TV program.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 13
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Medical Dilemmas
For this discussion activity, divide the class into pairs or small groups and give each student ONE of the cards. The students debate the issues on BOTH cards (the sale of human organs AND requiring medical students to do 6-month internships in developing countries). Each student has prompts with ideas for ONE of the topics. I use these in conjunct...
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 34
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Memory
Susan Boyle, Barbra Streisand, and Elaine Paige have all sung this beautiful song from "Cats." With this worksheet, students predict the grammatical words in each blank, and then either listen to the song or work in groups of 3s dictating the correct answers to each other.
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 2
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Michael Jackson - We Are the World
With this song, the students have to list the positive and negative concepts that are mentioned in the song. For the 3 examples of student answers, I have used handwriting fonts, which you may change to standard fonts. (Please note that this is TWO pages. I don�t know why there are 3 pages here, one of them blank!) The page with the lyrics should b...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 3
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Michael Phelps Interview
Here is a great interview with Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps for upper-intermediate students from the CBS news magazine, �60 Minutes.� Here are a worksheet and the transcript. (I used the font CableDignbats for the CBS logo.) Available online at http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57476222/michael-phelps-ready-for-london-games/?tag=currentVideoI...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 41
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