Film English
Everyday
What would you do if you got an extra day every week? Partners share some information about their routines and lives and write compositions about one another based on the information. Each partner tries to guess what the other person...
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We've All Been There
What does empathy look like? Encourage your pupils to put themselves in another person's shoes with several writing and discussion activities that relate to a featured short film. Over the course of the lesson, individuals collaborate...
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Total English Upper Intermediate: Does Everyone Agree?
Learners choose the appropriate pronouns needed to fill in the blanks of six sentences. They then practice correcting the pronouns in five different sentences.
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Total English Upper Intermediate: Being Emphatic
In this practicing emphasis worksheet, students unscramble the 8 groups of words to form 8 sentences and then use the 6 topics listed to write about employing emphasis.
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Inseparable
Built around a moving short film about second chances and tough choices, this lesson mixes grammar, prediction, and narrative writing. Pupils practice with adjectives and prefixes before moving on to the film. The resource directs you to...
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The Man Who Planted Trees
Grow an understanding of short story with a well-sequenced plan built around an Academy Award-winning short film. Class members explore the elements of an effective short story, and practice writing their own. They also watch the short...
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Parody Hilarity
Upper grade and middle school writers study the art of parody. In this language arts instructional activity, learners study the work of Lewis Carroll, read and discuss parodies from the book, Alice in Wonderland, and construct their own...
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Total English Upper Intermediate: Themed Time Capsules
In this making a time capsule worksheet, students choose 3 topics from the list that interest them and respond to 3 short answer questions regarding the topics for time capsules.
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Total English Upper Intermediate: Deductions
In this past modals of deductions worksheet, students practice their grammar skills as they complete 6 sentences and speculate about what might have happened to cause 3 different scenarios.
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Total English Upper Intermediate: Is It a Risk?
In this interviewing skills and speaking practice worksheet, students sharpen their skills as they use the 16 questions provided to interview a partner. Students compare answers with other students.
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Total English Upper Intermediate: Obligations and Explanations
In this expressing obligations and can do statements, students correct the mistakes in 8 sentences and then choose 2 items listed and explain how to do them.
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Total English Upper Intermediate: Talking About Success
In this talking about success worksheet, students discuss 7 questions pertaining to success in pairs and defend the answers they support.
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Total English Upper Intermediate: Speculating
In this present and future modals of possibility worksheet, students choose the appropriate 6 words from the word bank to complete 6 sentences and rewrite 6 sentences using must, could, might, may, can, and can't.
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Total English Upper Intermediate: Sorting out Phrasal Verbs
In this phrasal verbs practice worksheet, middle schoolers review how to consolidate key phrasal verbs as they respond to 16 short answer questions.
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Total English Upper Intermediate: Getting Things Done!
In this forming sentences worksheet, students unscramble 8 sets of words to form 8 complete sentences. Students use the 8 sentence prompts and use them to describe how often they get or have those things done.
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Total English Upper Intermediate: Memories
In this expressing ability and practicing can do statements worksheet, students complete 10 sentences using the appropriate verbs. Students also read a 1 paragraph selection and respond to 5 questions pertaining to it. In pairs, students...
Film English
Father and Son
Explore word relationships and the relationships between people with an interesting lesson. Learners practice pairing words that typically go together and write brief narratives using these words. They then go through a similar process,...
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The Conditioned
Discover the lovely story of Raimundo Arruda Sobrinho with your class. Over the course of the lesson, pupils practice descriptive writing, write short narratives, collaborate in small groups, watch a powerful short film about Raimundo,...
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My Shoes
Engage your pupils in short story and short film. Using a still from the film as inspiration, pairs compose short stories, which they later share and compare with other members of the class. They then watch the film and respond to a...
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Real Beauty
Consider the theme of beauty with discussion about what makes person beautiful and the well-known short film put together by Dove skin care. Class members examine some of the images from the film and discuss the message of the film as...
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Upper Intermediate ESL Vocabulary- Legal and Education Vocabulary
In this ESL legal and education vocabulary activity, students complete 17 sentences using the proper legal and education vocabulary. They fill in the blanks in each sentence.
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ESL Writing Lesson - Using Non-Defining Relative Clauses
Students review the differences between defining and non-defining clauses, and then go on to a writing exercise which employs non-defining relative clauses to expand a basic story outline.
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Process-Writing
Young scholars prepare to write a discursive composition. They pay particular attention to generating, selecting, ordering and organizing ideas. Students incorporate the use of linking devices and paragraph planning.
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Missing U
Explore the relationship between U and I with a video and related activities. First, pupils have some fun with the alphabet and discuss text message language. Next they practice coming up with words that have the same sound a I and U....