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Telling the Time
Here is a worksheet for telling the time followed by some practice questions, which you can adapt for your students. (This was inspired by a very old handout from the C.R.A.P.E.L. at the University of Nancy II in France.)
Level: elementary
Age: 8-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 4
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Pres. Obama on the Debt Crisis
Here is a listening exercise based on President Obama�s recent speech about the debt crisis, which can be found at http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/07/25/president-obama-deficit-reduction-requires-tackling-entitlements-and-tax-reform
If you want to change any of the blanks, copy and paste the number with the parentheses, and Word will automat...
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 4
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Group-Centered News
Here is a detailed description for using a short news summary with beginners and low-level learners. It takes little preparation and involves playing a short radio news summary and having the students transcribe it as a group.
Level: elementary
Age: 12-100
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 4
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Hear and Say Cards
Based on an idea I learned at a British Council seminar years ago, here are cards for practicing the alphabet, focusing especially on letters that are easily confused for speakers of Romance languages.
Students work in groups of 4, 5, 6, or 7. (4 is best). There are sets of cards for each of these group sizes. The students listen, and when they ...
Level: elementary
Age: 10-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 4
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Arrested Development - Top Banana
This brilliant American TV series was a BIG hit with critics and my (B2 and C1 levels) students alike, the story of a wealthy dysfunctional family that has hit hard times when the father is arrested and his son has to take over the business while keeping his lazy relatives from taking what little money there is left.
Season 1, Episode 2.
The ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 3
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Phrasal Verbs - Mutual Dictations
7 different exercises here for pair work dictations. Each student has half of a gapped dialogue illustrating a phrasal verb. The students read and dictate the missing words to each other.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 3
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Abbott & Costello - Who�s on First? (ws)
"The second funniest sketch of the 20th century" is what "Time" magazine called this in their millennium issue back in 2000. I don�t think Bud Abbott and Lou Costello ever performed this sketch exactly the same way twice, so the different audio and video versions that you come across will differ somewhat.
It is super fast, but upper intermediate...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 3
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Tom Lehrer - Who�s Next
Songs about nuclear proliferation are very rare, but here is is a good one and a FUNNY one by satirist Tom Lehrer. The lyrics are for both his original version and the updated one from "TomFoolery," but the worksheet is for the newer one. The song is available on the Internet, iTunes store, and (CD) Amazon.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 3
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Sinking Ice Lesson Plan
Water expands when it freezes. What if it contracted like other matter? Get students to work in groups to list all the changes in the world that would occur if this were true. This is realistic practice of the conditional tenses that leads to much discussion. Would the sea level rise or drop? For older students studying science.
Level: intermediate
Age: 17-100
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 3
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Burns & Allen - Willie�s Accident
George Burns and Gracie Allen were one of the greatest comedy teams ever, popular on radio, on TV, and in movies. Here are 3 worksheets. In 1 students work in pairs to try to match Gracie�s crazy responses to George�s remarks. (This is nearly impossible, but is a good introduction to a difficult listening exercise.) The other 2 are listening worksh...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 3
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