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Alistair Cooke�s America - Making a Revolution
Part 4 of legendary BBC correspondent�s documentary history of the U.S. This episode looks at the Revolutionary War, Declaration of Independence, and Constitution. I bought this DVD series on Amazon UK. For upper-intermediate & advanced students.
Level: advanced
Age: 15-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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No Arms or Legs
Here is an updated (more pictures for vocabulary) collection of puns where students match questions and answers. Black humor, followed by questions for discussion. Questions 17 & 18 best for students 18 and older. I used Alleycat ITC Bold for the title. The answers are on page 2. One of the pictures has a black background here, but it prints out no...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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Occupational Misfit
With these puns, students work in pairs to match a man�s jobs with explanations of why he failed at them. There is a worksheet for each pair, plus a set of cut-up slips of papers with the explanations.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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Woody Allen - The Lost Generation
In the 1960s Woody Allen did stand-up comedy and recorded 3 comedy albums (available on iTunes and Amazon). Here he talks about his crazy adventures with the Lost Generation of the 1920s, including Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Picasso. He incorporated some of this sketch into his film "Midnight in Paris." [Please note that the font Zeal is needed for...
Level: elementary
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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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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Strangers in the Night
Here are 2 exercises around the song, leading up to a fun role-play of 2 strangers meeting in the night.
I begin by having the students working in pairs to join together phrases from the song that are on the slips of paper. Then I play the song so they can complete the task. Next give them the worksheet with the gaps, and ask them to try to fill i...
Level: elementary
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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Everyday Use - Questions
Discussion questions for Alice Walker�s brilliant short story about conflict between a daughter�s modern values and her mother�s traditional values.
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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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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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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Building an Airport
Using the flow chart on page 2, students discuss in small groups how to organize the building of an airport in the Himalayas. (The preview version of page 2 appears to be black, but the flow chart is perfectly visible on a white background when it is downloaded. But if you have any problems, send me a personal message, and I will e-mail you a pdf v...
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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