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What do you know about kidneys? With a partner, see how many of the following questions can you answer:
• Is a human kidney about the same size as a plum or bigger?
• For how long (approximately) can a healthy human kidney be stored before it is transplanted?
• When ...
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Keywords: controversy, donors, group-work, kidney, quiz, reading, speaking
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You now have the capital you need. The manufacturer makes our wallpaper, and it looks very good. People seem interested in it, and want to see your price list. You have to decide how much you’re going to sell your wallpaper for. What are you going to do?
a ...
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Keywords: adults, career, group-work, reading, speculating
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7 Put your telephone in an uncomfortably noisy place.
8 Form a group with other people to share the shopping—you won’t have to drive to shops so often, and you’ll save money by buying in bulk.
9 Invite people to tea or coffee instead of dinner.
10 Borrow books from public ...
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Keywords: completion, money, reading, saving, speaking
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Andrea didn’t really love Jack and she knew he didn’t really love her, either. So it didn’t bother her at all when, two weeks after their wedding, she saw Jack kissing a young man on his yacht. His name was Howard. That was another reason Jack needed her. ...
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Keywords: , completion, gay, grammar, homosexualism, love-affair, pronunciation, reading, relative-pronouns, speaking, stress, true / false, verbs, vocabulary, word-formation
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SUE: No. I really ought to stay in tomorrow. It’s ages since I washed my hair.
JOE: What (8) the day (9) tomorrow?
SUE: No, I’maway then. Look, Joe. I’mreally a bit short of time (10) days. I’ve got a whole lot of work to finish by the end of ...
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Keywords: dialogue, gap-fill, phone, reading, vocabulary
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ON WEEKENDS Hamto Kawaguchi becomes a very modern Japanese father. He cooks. He cleans. He plays with the kids. But come Monday, Haruto crawls back into the role of an oldstyle Japanese employee. Rising at 4 a.m., he leaves his wife, Hisako, and three children and dutifully boards ...
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Keywords: adults, family, heading, japanese, job, main-idea, reading, true / false, work
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This is the well known "one guy always lies, one guy always tells the truth" brain teaser - reproduced as a reading with several additional activities (crossword and general knowledge questions).
It's a fun, humorous and employs lateral thinking. Follow it with activities such as - action ...
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Keywords: brain-teaser, crossword, eating-habits, environment, grammar, intermediate, reading, second-conditional
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Answer the questions:
Describe Rafael’s pajamas.
Why did the people in Rafael’s audience shoot each other?
Does Ellie like her toes?
Why does Rafael sleep in the living room?
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Apparently, when he swallowed the cod some people in the audience were so
excited they took out their guns and fired ...
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Keywords: diary, discussion, elementary, fish, gangsters, gun, mafia, phrasal verbs, questions, reading, shooting
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Answer the questions:
What does Rafael do with the fish?
What does “on an impulse” mean?
How did Rafael learn to swallow big fish?
How do you pronounce “regurgitate.”
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Then one day, on an impulse, he reached into the tank, grabbed a small blue fish and swallowed it. He ...
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Keywords: diary, discussion, elementary, fish, phrasal verbs, questions, reading
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Mystery in London is an easy reader for elementary students of English. It is a detective story in which YOU decide what happens next. The story is divided into 35 parts. Having read one part students have to decide which part they'd like to read next. Look down ...
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Keywords: adults, comprehension, detective, elementary, interactive, london, mystery, police, present-simple, reading
