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Abortion X Anencephalic Babies
This is an activity I made for my Advanced conversation group after much discussion in Brazil on the legalizing abortion for babies who don�t have a brain. It delas with interesting and strong opinions and morals. It was a really interesting class. It has discussion questions and a news article about it.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 12
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Advanced Conversation Swine Flu Activity
This is another worksheet I�ve prepared for my advanced English Conversation class, being up to date with what�s on the news. There is some vocabulary work, then a gap-filling with an article from time.com followed by some discussion questions.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 15
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Conversation Class - Unusual Tours
This is a great activity for talking about traveling. Before reading the texts students share their stories and preferences about traveling. Then there�s a first reading about an unusual tour in Rio de Janeiro that has been having problems with the government and a discussion about the students� opinions on it. Then a collection of unusual tours I ...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 23
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Conversation Class about the Virginia Shooting in April 2007
Talking about current events is one of the most motivating things in an advanced students conversation class. I created this activity using an article from an online newspaper and some questions create dby me to get students to talk about how they saw what happened, relating violence to their lives and etc... It was one of the best conversation cla...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 12
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Discussion about Discipline - for Advanced Conversation Classes
A worksheet I�ve done for my Advanced Conversation Class that contemplates vocabulary commonly related to discipline / raising a child, discussion question on the topic that try to bring the students� experiences out, a reading on the topic and a couple more question for discussions. Hope you enjoy it! My students sure did. It was a fun class.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 11
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Forgiveness
This activity worked really well with my advanced conversation group - they are all very fluent already. It mentions the Tiger Woods scandal as a starting point of the discussion, followed by some general discussion questions and some situations in which students should discuss with a partner whether or not they would forgive the other person if th...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 16
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How About a Drink - A debate over Brazil�s new Drinking&Driving law
Brazil has recently changed traffic laws so as to have harder punishment for people who are caught driving after drinking. The change has been much discussed and faced a lot of unhappy people. This worksheet was prepared to discuss the law, the consequences of it. It also has a little exercise on idioms related to the topic.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 14
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Murdered by the father? The Isabella Nardoni Case - Advanced Discussion
This is a small reading with discussion questions I did for my advanced conversation class to bring to class the topic of the much-talked-about case of Isabella Nardoni. Isabella is a 5-year-old girl who was thrown from her apartment in S�o Paulo, Brazil. The police suspects her father and stepmother did it.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 4
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