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Paradise Lost, Book II
With one slide summarizing Book II of John Milton's Paradise Lost, the rest of the presentation includes the text from lines 620-830. It saves you from having to type up the lines, but you will need to augment this presentation with more...
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Illnesses and Injuries: Health Vocabulary
Help your English learners name what's ailing them with this presentation about illnesses and injuries. From backaches to sunburns, to measles, the funny illustrations in these slides will help your class to identify the English words...
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High Frequency Phrases: Second 100 Words
Use this resource to reinforce language skills in an ESL classroom. Learners review high frequency phrases such as, I think so, it's your place, and read the book. While there is not a description of how this presentation could be used,...
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Discussion Starters
When working in an ESL classroom, this resource could be used to provide discussion starters. Phrases such as, "through the day" or "around here," could be used as a way to spur discussion.
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Common Phrases
While not a complete lesson, this activity could be used to launch a discussion of common English phrases. In this series of slides, phrases like "come back now" are shown. A teacher could augment this activity with more variety of phrases.
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High-Frequency Phrases: Third 100 Words
When discussing common phrases used in the English language, this resource could be helpful. With a list of ninety phrases such as, without a care, this presentation could be used to delve into the meaning of common expressions in an...
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Plant Tissue Culture
The techniques of growing plant cells, tissues, and seeds are covered here. The main scientists working on theories and different developments through the decades of the 20th century have slides, and then specific details of the...
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Health Careers
Each of the 9 slides have a list of possible careers within areas of the Health industry. There are no explanations or details of any of the jobs and so this would be useful to introduce the areas and then let the students research some...
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Humor Web Sites
The Humor Web site presentation is simply a resource guide for various web site categories that address humor. There is no content included and this would only be useful as a tool for a teacher who would like these resources categorized....
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Humor and Iconicity in Classical Music
Scherzo, cappricio, divertimento, and rando are all addressed in this look into humor through this classical music presentation. The slide show is very basic, but has some good background on Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, and Bach. The...
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Practical Jokes
With no discussion on the topic of practical jokes, this presentation opts instead for providing visual aids, allowing teachers and professors to craft a discussion around the various links to humorous videos. Many videos feature pranks...
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Beowolf: Text and Contexts
In the context of class discussion and individual reading, this presentation would be helpful to translate and disseminate the text to clarify understanding. The first seven slides review the events of lines 1-300 of the text, and the...
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Chaucer: Canterbury Tales General Prologue
Perhaps a companion to a class discussion about the general prologue (Parson and Summoner) of Canterbury Tales, this presentation simply presents students with lines 477-714 of the text. No additional commentary or annotation is included...
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Paradise Lost
Opening the presentation with an Albrecht Durer engraving of Adam and Eve (1504), this slideshow provides students with a six-line summary of Book V of Paradise Lost, and then the complete text. For higher levels, the summary would be a...
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Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf's likeness and works are presented in this slideshow, which features several pertinent quotes from A Room of One's Own with brief explanations of themes and plot points. This presentation would be helpful in a class...
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DNA
this DNA Powerpoint describes replication, and communicates the concept that viral DNA can program cells.
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MacroMolecules
This single slide displays the discussion points to differentiate between the main molecules ; structure/function/classes/lab test/common examples