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Tex Avery Cartoon - Symphony in Slang
This excellent cartoon by Tex Avery is a great teaching tool for upper-intermediate and advanced students because of its huge assortment of slang and idioms like being short-haned and raining cats and dogs. It is available here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot92Yfovvvg
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x45xby_mgm-cartoon-symphony-in-slang-1951_s...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 55
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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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The English Patient - Discussion
"The English Patient" is a beautiful film that won 9 Academy Awards. Here is a worksheet with 2 exercises to follow watching the film. In the first one, they match different flaws with the principal characters, and in the second they choose 8-12 questions about the film to discuss. (Not recommended for students under 17.)
Level: intermediate
Age: 17-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 13
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The Inbetweeners: The Field Trip
This was a hugely successful British sitcom about 4 British teenagers, 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.
As a warm-up, I had the students work in gro...
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 16
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The Joys of Hugging
The purpose of this FUN exercise is to get students to ask a lot of yes/no questions to find out the meaning of "stogging" (hugging). Pass out 1 card to every 2 students. Give them a chance to read the card and then have them ask you yes/no questions about the meaning of "stogging," which is just a made-up word for "hugging." If they don�t succeed,...
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 6
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The Nanny - A Star Is Unborn
In this American sitcom, the nanny Fran is chosen to act in a Shakespearean play with the idea that the play will flop with her in the lead role. Stars Fran Drescher. This is from Season 2.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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The New Prison Governor
Based on a true (but very strange!) story, this surprising role play for upper-intermediate students leads the new prison governor to learn about a mass prison escape.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6
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The Office: Diversity Day
Here is a worksheet for the popular American sitcom, "The Office." I begin the lesson by asking students why a company would offer diversity training.
For the title I used the font Helvetica Bold, which is the same used on the TV show. I used Baskerville for the rest of the worksheet, but you may wish to change it if it doesn�t all fit onto one ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 23
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The Tell-Tale Heart - Ideas & Text
Here are a few (original?) ideas to get students involved and talking about Edgar Allen Poe�s famous short story, along with the text to the story on pages 2 and 3. The role cards that I uploaded along with this are related to exercise 3 in this lesson plan.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 52
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The Tell-Tale Heart - Pre-Reading ex.
Students are asked to make up a story using key words on these cards. They then tell the story to other students. Next they listen to a reading of Edgar Allen Poe�s "The Tell-Tale Heart" and place the cards in order as they hear them. (You can then have them read the story and study it in your normal way.)
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 38
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