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Harry
Potter Quiz! It's not hard at all if you have seen the film or read the book 
(Click on the picture to take
the quiz)Here now: Harry Cards!! At last! |
The
Real Story of
Cinderella A Fill in the Blanks E-mail Test Try it and see what your score is with an e-mail! If you have problems with the vocabulary try this test first. Kay, Gerda, and the Snow Queen and a vocabulary quiz are now on line. Lesson IV Vocabulary quiz to prepare for "Our Time at the Mast" (Crash, stern, range, idle, lull, bake rather, mild, storm, blame) Related Questions Our Time at the Mast by Jason and the Argonaut |
What's new: Halloween
Associated Words Grid Some
Toeic Vocabulary
Human Microbiota Ten questions on the surprising symbiotic relations between indigenous flora and our bodies The Letter Game a interesting ESL improv exercise for those who aren't used to mixing theatre and ESL in the classroom Oral Comprehension: Questions on Animals and PlantsTest how well your students understand the spoken word with these simple questions on the world around us. The
Liar's Quiz Acting is in some respects all about
lying well. Do
you know how to lie? |
If have any suggestions or comments please e-mail me at yuknachris@yahoo.com.
TOEIC Exercises
TOEIC
Nuances
The
Fake TOEIC Test neither endorsed nor approved by
anyone!
| Drama
related stuff The 7th Art Digitalized dedicated to the 21st century Art: Digital Film Making Play: 7th Art Bingo view the digital skills of your theater class. Sally's Trip Abroad a series of short sketches about the misadventures of our young heroine and her aunt and grandmother. This is especially good for theatre classes where the girls out number the boys. More of Sally's Trip Abroad yes she's back along with Grandma, Agnes, and Nicole. Read this play and you may learn a little French along the way. Invisible :Ghost, Man, and the Semi Invisible Man Pair
Work
The
Breakfast Club (Welcome to Acting Class) your
students write a
short short sketch and then act it out with one slight difference the
motives are not the same. The Liar's Quiz Acting is in some respects all about lying well. Do you know how to lie? The Letter Game a interesting ESL improv exercise for those who aren't used to mixing theatre and ESL in the classroom |
Introductions
and Ice
Breakers Introductions This is a good way to get to know the students in your first or second class Body Sculpture Have the students review the parts o the body first. I often use a crossword puzzle of the parts of the body before attempting this exercise Body Parts A quick crossword puzzle and some expressions that have to do with parts of the body The Catwalk The students line up in two rows. The corridor between them is thus the runway. The students must then learn to use their bodies to express themselves The
Difference Between the
Sexes
This is an
interesting exercise. You must divide the class into small all
male or all female groups (2 to 4 per group is ideal). Then you give them one of these two pages to complete. Dogs & Cats Of course you can always give your students Sex Quiz for Dummies. a light look at recent scientific findings on the difference between men and women Sex Quiz Answer Key You really must go here to read the detailed explanations of the sex quiz for dummies. Each short question and answer is explained in a a paragraph Sex Quiz Teacher's Notes More suggestions on how to use the SQD;-)) Sex quotes Here are some famous quote on the subject of the differences between the sexes. Robot Scenes The Perfect Mate The Baby sitter Women in Science Write your own skit. Choose one of these three ideas and run with it. Transformations in a similar vein to robot scenes. Mad Science at it's best! It's Just Biological,Tax Time, Does Bond Have to Do This Sort of Thing?, Internet and You,Time Travel, Great Debate |
While it maybe
hard to believe, many of my former students swear that one of the
easiest ways to
study for the Toefl is to play computer video games. The game
most cited is Civilization II,
with its complex vocabulary and difficult game plan (you have to
take a civilization from the
caves to spaceflight) it has been said that after playing
Civilization II the Toefl is a breeze.
Here is something not quite as serious: TWAFL
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Hours of Fun. A Boston Toefl Exam This test incorporates lots of fun facts about Boston and Massachusetts Reading Comprehension for the TOEFL Astrobiology 101 Is there Life on planets orbiting red dwarf stars: What kind of creatures might develop around a small red star? Rich diverse science vocabulary combined with all the imagination that come with xenobiology. University Vocabulary for the TOEFL What a lot of people forget is that the TOEFL is designed to see if you can survive in college in the United States and that the TOEFL is not simply a test of your English ability. Here are some tests by Liliane Bois-Simon that help illustrate this fact : Test One : to hand in, to major, to hit the books... Test Two : prize, scratch paper, deadline, etc A Toefl Parody Toefl Lives Imagine if you will that the TOEFL test really measures how we speak English. Repeat Offenders mistakes my students make often Dictation:
(These pages use sound) A special
guest
lesson from |
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TOEFL Vocabulary: Vocabulary Gleaned from the TOEFL , yes here are some words often found in the oral comprehension part of the TOEFL Fairly difficult Toefl Synonyms Abject, Acrid, Dribble, Dilapidated, Emancipate, Fastener, Fitting, Fund, Fizz (fairly difficult) Toefl Antonyms tiny, upgraded, demoralize, prone, nearby, bedazzle foremost, clever, carve, swift Toefl Elimination Select the word that does not match. Interesting quiz pedagogically. make known, expand, feast, disperse, gift covering, subsidy, concede, match, collide Toefl Opposites perplex, shield, musty,conscript, inherent, revere, grueling, hybrid,flawed, painstaking (hard) Match'em Choose the synonym closest in meaning, (20 questions in all) Son of TOEFL
This
is an attempt to imitate the oral aspect of the TOEFL using the
voices of my students. |
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Nursing and Medical Vocabulary Take a walk with the Interns listen to the phrases and choose the photo that best corresponds. Hospital Corners: Read a short story on the future of surgery. |
The Design of English A collection of essays and exercises that are not necessarily grammar exercises but do shed some light on how English is put together. There will be some things on the history or origin of words as well as new techniques to use in the classroom Writing
Scientific English
Here is the secret
to
the incomprehensible Compound
Words Evolving English a quiz to see if you know how the English Language has changing over time. Fruits
and
Vegetables Dictation: Fruits Basic
GIMP Vocabulary Associated
Word Grid Game Using
Tables Idea
Cards Twenty First Century Design Topics
Term
Paper Ideas:
Do
your students
submit boring uninteresting term papers and book reports? |
| Miscellaneous Telephone pairwork: ordering takeout Pizza Shack and Sub shop Powerpoint Nights a modern fable for those who use powerpoint written by one of my former students The Wobbling Bear Legal Vocabulary words and phrases often used in courtrooms today Some Simple Questions to Test Comprehension Category: Nature Words
often confused in dossiers and term
papers
Sleepless
You know perhaps your students are just too tired to work well.
Find out if it's their fault. Make them take this
test. Material Science Vocabulary(Engineer Talk) Pilot Talk all sorts of avionic lingo and termsHoliday
Stuff
A
Halloween Quiz Check out your scary vocabulary and
monster lore Halloween
Associated Words Grid Poetry The 7th Art Digitalized a new site dedicated to the 21st century Art: Digital Film Making Play: 7th Art Bingo view the digital skills of your theater class. A Coloring Book for my daughter Some
Toeic Vocabulary |
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Herculean Vocabulary Builder Here are twelve lessons to develop your student's vocabulary. A lot of the these words are use in standardized test like the TOEFL or the TOEIC. There are over one hundred everyday words included with related exercises for each lesson. This is an on going project so please excuse anything that is not yet working. Hercules had 12 trials to perform, why not your students? |  |
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Lesson I (stare,
fancy, trust, fold, reluctant, quick, pretend, waste, miss,
around)Related
Questions Our
Time at
the
Mast
by Jason and the
Argonauts Review Crossword Puzzle (using the vocabulary from lessons 10, 11, &12) Hint:
if you select the crossword puzzle you
will see the answers for I wrote them in white letters.
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Here are quite a
few chapters and stories from famous authors. What is nice about
these exercises is Questions
for O. Henry's A Ransom for Red Chief By Susan
GUILLAUMOND
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Politics: Political Vocabulary:: swing, porkbarrel, filibuster, reactionary, radical, spin, incumbent, dark horse, photo op, lobby, lame duck Political Phrases deregulation, caucus,special interests,electoral college, recall election,welfare state, market forces, privatization, fourth estate |
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Version
1.01 Some vocabulary quizzes that let you know where the technospeak is going NetSlang cul8er, lol, smilelies HyperActive Jargon Son of Jargon Buzzwords Modernspeak Isn't modern life funny? Take a peek at how the world and our language is changing. Techy Talk As technology creates words Technogrid How to judge the technological savvy or your students, teachers or employees. Diablious Ex Machina A modern story for our times. What if the devil were altruistic? |
| Sci-Fi
Stuff (A favorite for engineering students) Space Opera English (Star Trek) Star Chris a script from long ago and far away Robot Vocabulary A Vocabulary Quiz from my story Junkyard Park The French Olympics: find out how the French win all the gold medals at the Olympics. Now that's real science fiction! Have your students read this aloud like a radio play. Robot Anxiety Two students get to act out this short sketch based ob the Turing test. Good Friday : A story about a robot priest named Henri. Foreword Story Epilog Teddy Bear Planet : an interesting tale of stuffed animals conquering the universe Play Sci-fi charades with computers or print the cards and have fun. Remember the rules are for you to decide. People have used these cards for games like pictionary, mimes, or even with modeling clay. The Anti-Gravity Vehicle ... An entire marketing strategy must be outlined, from industry use to customer demand. A sales presentation and ad campaign should be plotted as well. |
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Crime
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Punishment
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Puzzles Diplomacy so hard it hurts. Logic a little discourse on logic and some exercises . Conundrum The trouble with tics, just who is telling the truth? Logical Fallacies Argument from doubtful or unidentified sources, Non Sequitur (It does not follow), Either or Reasoning, Begging the Question or Circular Logic , Oversimplified or Over generalized, Argument ad Hominem (attack the man),Post Hoc, Proper Hoc (after this, therefore this) The X-Files Invisible animals on the loose? The secret? Think Elephant |
Animal
ID : Audio work, listen to the clue and choose the
correct animal
Animal ID but with pictures, not completed at this
time
The Ad Campaign Explore the world of advertising English and deal with the changes of the message as your students change media. Draw an offbeat product or a serious one on a piece of paper. If you are stuck for ideas here are a few to get you started: |
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Projects Science General a new website for the natural philosopher in you Many difficult science
quizzes are available Scientific English with two quizzes on cosmetics: Lipstick
Quiz
Joe
the
Dogman A lot of people confuse me with my brother
Joseph
Yukna who trains dogs on Cape Cod. Stories in French: In
Gamete My Alumni Page Here is were you can see what my former students are doing now. My
Friends Here are some of my friends on the web. The
CyberNautilus Advanced
Web Page Workshop several short lessons to make
you a
web wizard! |
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Articles On-Line: The Cyber Renaissance of EFL, ESL and TESOL Open versus Closed School Policy New Trends in Our Daily Lives The Transparent School and the French version L'ecole transparente "Building the Renaissance Engine" was accepted at Conference on Philosophy of Mind, Artificial Intelligence (AI) even better I co-chaired a track |
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Alternative Science: This is where
I've earned the
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dinosaurs? Post a comment in my blog societé galactique? |
| Science Conferences, Congresses,
and
Symposiums here is a few events on the science calender Water Conference: The Physics, Chemistry and Biology of Water |
| The Kahula
Project How to search English, German, Spanish Copy this page and give it to a friend. Make this the start up page in your Language Lab. GO PLAY! |
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The
Quote Machine Jazz up your reports with the wisdom of the ages. Laugh, cry... it is worth the click. A part of Kahula Project since its inception. |
Kahula
Webtools
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CyberNautilus Take a test drive on one of the strangest science search sites ever Navigate through cyberspace in the search for Science! |
Wordelizer
is up and running Confuse with some tech words? Want your students to write a rap song or some poetry? Go here and select the proper dictionary. A part of Kahula Project since December 17th 2000 |
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