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Movie Worksheet: Card Games - Learn Context Vocabulary with a Movie Scene

Movie Worksheet: Card Games - Learn Context Vocabulary with a Movie Scene

Before showing students an excerpt of the British TV series Poldark where they will  see the scenes of a card game at a gambling table, hand out the worksheet. You can find episode 6 of this ...
2 Views 8,289 Pre-IntInt
Word Center

Word Center

Students get a table with words in three different colums. They must find the word in the centre that is suitable as an ending for the first as well as the beginning for the second word, in other ...
5 Views 5,580 ElemPre-Int
Movie Worksheet: Friends (The One with All the Resolutions)

Movie Worksheet: Friends (The One with All the Resolutions)

TV series Friends season 7, episode 11 to talk about New Year's Eve and resolutions for the coming year. This lesson plan can include listening to the song 'Millennium' by Robbie Williams which mi ...
7 Views 21,312 Pre-IntIntAdv
Movie Worksheet: Thanksgiving and Christmas ( Friends)

Movie Worksheet: Thanksgiving and Christmas ( Friends)

Movie worksheet for the TV series Friends Season 4, episode 8 'The One with Chandler' which is about another one of their Thanksgiving gatherings. Not only is the American holiday of Thanksgiving ...
8 Views 18,646 ElemPre-IntIntAdv
Secret Thanksgiving Code

Secret Thanksgiving Code

This is a fun word puzzle for Thanksgiving. Students will have to find out a keyword by decoding scrambled letters. Each code letter represents the letter that comes right before it in the alphabe ...
6 Views 11,235 ElemPre-IntInt
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Song Worksheet: War

Song Worksheet: War

This is a listening exercise using Bob Marley's song War as a starting point for perhaps talking about Remembrance/Veteran's Day on Nov. 11. In Oct. 1963, Ethiopia's emperor Haile Selassie ma ...
5 Views 7,007 Pre-IntIntAdv
Word Sudoku

Word Sudoku

This is a Sudoko Business English riddle with words instead of numbers. A new, fun way to memorize vocabulary. You can make your own grid by using any other words. The different colors make it eas ...
7 Views 10,165 Pre-IntIntAdv
Computer Words

Computer Words

This is a crosswords puzzle with words to unscramble. I would add translations of each word in your students' mother tongue or definitions/explanations to make it easier. I was asked by one of my ...
4 Views 10,210 All
The FIFA World Cup 2014 in Brazil Nickname Quiz

The FIFA World Cup 2014 in Brazil Nickname Quiz

This is a short quiz about the current soccer world cup in Brazil. It is a simple matching exercise that suits all levels, but suits levels up to intermediate best. The key is given, plus two bits ...
5 Views 7,162 BegElemPre-IntInt
Wine Double Puzzle

Wine Double Puzzle

Unscramble 10 keywords about the overall-topic of 'wine'. Find out the final sentence by means of the numbered cases. I created this for a group of beginners (German) therefore I added transl ...
2 Views 3,928 ElemPre-IntIntAdv
Movie Worksheet: Winter Holiday Traditions

Movie Worksheet: Winter Holiday Traditions

I'd just like to give you the link to the video above as a starting point / teaching idea about the origins of 27 different winter holiday traditions by Mental Floss. You can watch it one number a ...
5 Views 9,798 IntAdv
Movie Worksheet: Ally McBeal Christmas Special -The Man with the Bag

Movie Worksheet: Ally McBeal Christmas Special -The Man with the Bag

This episode is 45 minutes long. One of the two main story lines is about a man who believes he is Santa Claus. There is a worksheet for students plus the teacher's key - with solutions (among oth ...
5 Views 6,448 Pre-IntIntAdv
Song Worksheet: Cajun Life by Jo-El Sonnier (2)

Song Worksheet: Cajun Life by Jo-El Sonnier (2)

This is the appendix to the song worksheet 'Cajun Life by Jo-El Sonnier' - search for part (1). The document is a reading text taken from the sleevenotes to an album with Cajun and Zydeco music wh ...
2 Views 3,817 Pre-IntIntAdv
Song Worksheet: Cajun Life by Jo-El Sonnier (1)

Song Worksheet: Cajun Life by Jo-El Sonnier (1)

This is a song one of my learners wished to discuss. However, as I could not find the lyrics to it anywhere I had my students listen to the music and write down the text (which is not easy as the ...
2 Views 5,417 Pre-IntIntAdv
Movie Worksheet: Ally McBeal Christmas Special

Movie Worksheet: Ally McBeal Christmas Special " 'Tis the Season"

Ally McBeal works in a law firm in Boston. This time they have to deal with a case where a TV commentator tells children the truth about Santa Claus. Collect Christmas-related vocabulary beforehan ...
4 Views 5,678 Pre-IntIntAdv
Movie Worksheet: Friends Season 2, Episode 8 'The One with Phoebe's Dad' (Christmas Party)

Movie Worksheet: Friends Season 2, Episode 8 'The One with Phoebe's Dad' (Christmas Party)

This Friends' episode is called 'The One with Phoebe's Dad' and is set around Christmas time, so it makes as a good starting point to deal with the seasonal topic of Christmas. It contains a vocab ...
11 Views 16,592 Pre-IntIntAdv
Movie Worksheet: Thanksgiving

Movie Worksheet: Thanksgiving

This is just a link to a YouTube video by the Mental Floss channel that deals with 25 little known facts about this popular American holiday. Before watching the video you might want to brain ...
6 Views 12,026 IntAdv
Movie Worksheet: Friends, Season 2, Episode 5 (Ross' B-Party)

Movie Worksheet: Friends, Season 2, Episode 5 (Ross' B-Party)

This is originally a worksheet for German learners. Before starting to watch the episode brainstorm birthday vocabulary. Then provide students with the  list of questions. Afte ...
2 Views 9,348 Pre-IntIntAdv