1.

The Perfect Destination

1. Hotel Concorde Montparnasse

From 170$ per night including breakfast. The hotel is in the hearth of Paris in the lively
Montparnasse area. The experience includes quiet streets, 15 minute stroll from The
Louvre, proximity to public transport and tourist attractions, and to various bars,
restaurants, and classic Parisian cafes.

http://orig10.deviantart.net/7c1d/f/2011/192/5/f/paris_travel_ad_by_stapic-d3lojst.jpg

2. Riviera Maya

Come visit Riviera Maya, where you can escape the stress of urban life and relax in a
destination where you and your significant other can have all this for two. what are you
waiting for? Escape to Riviera Maya today.

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3.Okinawa

Cruising Okinawa is like love at first sight. Worlds apart from the rest of Japan and 1000
miles from Tokyo, Okinawa today is renowned as a tropical getaway, famous for its white
sandy beaches, crystal- clear waters, unique crafts, and local dishes. After arriving
leisurely by ship isntead of hassling with a flight from Tokyo, you, too, will be right in
step with Okinawa's slow pace of life, ready to enjoy everything this unique tropical
paradise has to offer.

http://www.bethreiber.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Okinawa-cruise-ad.jpg

Texts are ready- made, with some adjustments.

Students' proficiency level: Lower intermediate

Task description:

The students are put in groups of 3. Each group receives a handout with 3 given
destinations. They are instructed to read the texts, and, as a group, chose the destination
which they find the most appealing. After that, the students are given 5 minutes to
describe their journey to a chosen destination. One student from each group is called out
to read out loud.

2. Android 101: How to properly replace your battery

Sure, this may seem like a very basic thing, and everyone thinks they know to just pull
the battery door off then yank the battery out, but is that really the best way to go about
it? Simply put, no. You never want to just pull the battery out of any electronic device
that is running. What is the proper way to do this you may be wondering, so let's take a
look real quick.

1. Press and hold the power button of your device until the menu pops up

2. Select Shut Down, then confirm you wish to shut the device down

3. Wait for device to fully shut down

4. Remove battery door, then battery

5. Replace battery and door, then press and hold power button until screen lights up

This text is ready- made, with a little adjustment in the first paragraph.

http://www.androidcentral.com/android-101-how-properly-replace-your-battery

Students' proficiency level: Lower intermediate

Task description:

The students work individually. Every students receives a handout with the text. The title
and the first paragraph are covered. The teacher explains that the 5 given steps are an
instructions, and the students firstly have to guess what the instructions are about, and
then put the instructions in the correct order. After they have done so, they are instructed
to reveal the first part of the text, to see if their guesses were correct. The teacher calls out
one of the students to read the first paragraph, and then calls out 5 other students to read
one step each.

3. How to make spaghetti

Step 1: Get supplies

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You will need: a box of spaghetti, a jar of marinara sauce, ground beef, two large pots,
salt, and water.

Step 2: Cook the meat and get the water boiling

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Fill up a large pot with water and add a handful of salt. Put it on the stove and turn it to
high so it'll start boiling! Cook the of meat. The cooking should take 10-15 minutes.
When all of the meat is brown and cooked you can add in the sauce.

Step 3: Mix in the sauce

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Mix your marinara sauce with your cooked meat. Turn the heat down to low and let it
simmer while you cook the pasta.

Step 4: Cook the spaghetti

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Once the water has come up to a boil, you can throw the spaghetti in. It should cook
within 7-11 minutes. Make sure to stir every couple minutes to keep it from sticking.

Step 5: Serve your spaghetti

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Mix the noodles in the pan with the sauce. Stir it all together really well. Top with cheese
and enjoy!

The text is ready- made, with some adjustments.

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-spaghetti-in-a-couple-easy-steps/

Students' proficiency level: Lower intermediate

Task description:

Each student recieves a handout with the cooking instructions (steps 1-5) jumbled up in
the upper part, and the pictures corresponding to those steps in the lower part. The teacher
instructs the students to match the steps with the pictures. After 5 minutes, the teacher
checks answers by calling out some of the students. The students just have to mention the
step number and the letter of a picture. After that, the students are instructed to put those
steps in the right order, so they would get a complete spaghetti recipe. Answers are
checked in the end.

4. Hamlet

Marcellus:

Holla! Bernardo!

Bernardo

Say.
What, is Horatio there?

Horatio:

A piece of him.

Bernardo:

Welcome, Horatio: --Welcome, good Marcellus.

Marcellus:

What, has this thing appear'd again to night?

Bernardo:

I have seen nothing.

Marcellus:

Horatio says 'tis but our fantasy,

And will not let belief take hold of him

Touching this dreaded sight, twice seen of us:

Therefore I have entreated him along

With us to watch the minutes of this night;

That, if again this apparition come

He may approve our eyes and speak to it.

Horatio:

Tush, tush, 'twill not appear.

Bernardo:

Sit down awhile,

And let us once again assail your ears,

That are so fortified against our story,

What we two nights have seen.

Horatio:

Well, sit we down,

And let us hear Bernardo speak of this.

Bernardo:

Last night of all,

When yond same star that's westward from the pole

Had made his course to illume that part of heaven

Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself,

The bell then beating one,

--

Marcellus:

Peace, break thee off; look where it comes again!

[Enter Ghost, armed.]

The text is ready- made with slight adjustments, Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of
Denmark

http://www.uniteddigitalbooks.com/Books/Hamlet%20Excerpt.pdf

Students' proficiency level: Upper intermediate

Task description:

The students are put into groups of three. Each student is given an excerpt from Hamlet,
Prince of Denmark. The teacher informs the students that they will have to act it out in
front of the class, but they are also given freedom to change the lines as they please, as
long as the meaning remains the same. This ensures that the students will understand the
excerpt. The students are given 10 minutes to prepare, after which the teach calls out a
few of the groups to perform in front of the class.

5. The Three Little Pigs

Once upon a time there were three little pigs. As they grew older, they decided to start
living on their own, so each of them built its own house. The first pig built a house of
straw, while the second pig built his house with sticks. They built their houses very
quickly. The third little pig worked hard all day and built his house with bricks. When
they finished, they decided to celebrate.

The big bad wolf was passing by. He saw the three little pigs, and decided that they will
make a tasty meal. He chased the three pigs and they ran and hid in their houses. The big
bad wolf went to the first house and huffed and puffed and blew the house down in
minutes. Luckily, the second little pig saw what was going on, so he quickly called the
police. The police vehicle showed up after a few minutes, just in time to stop the big bad
wolf from eating the little pig.

"We live in a country with laws, mr. Wolf. You can't just destroy someones house and try
to eat them, and expect not to be punished." One of the cops commented as he was
arresting the big bad wolf.

The three little pigs felt really grateful to live in such a well structured society, and they
lived happily ever after.

This text is self- made, my own take on a fractured fairy tale.

Students' proficiency level: Intermediate

Task description:

The teacher writes down three key words on a blackboard (pig, house, wolf), and asks the
students to try and guess what kind of a text they are going to read. After the students
guess its a fairy tale The Three Little Pigs, the teacher calls out a few students to retell the
fairytale. Then the teacher hands each student a fractured fairytale, to check if their
prediction was correct. The students read the text and comment on it.

6. There was once

"There was once a poor girl, as beautiful as she was good, who lived with her wicked
stepmother in a house in the forest."

"Forest? Forest is pass, I mean, I've had it with all this wilderness stuff. It's not a right
image of our society, today. Let's have some urban for a change."

"There was once a poor girl, as beautiful as she was good, who lived with her wicked
stepmother in a house in the suburbs."

-------

"That's better. But I have to seriously query this word poor."

"But she was poor!"

"Poor is relative. She lived in a house, didn't she?"

"Yes."

"Then socio-economically speaking, she was not poor."

"But none of the money was hers! The whole point of the story is that the wicked
stepmother makes her wear old clothes and sleep in the fireplace-"

"Aha! They had a fireplace! With poor, let me tell you, there's no fireplace. Come down
to the park, come to the subway stations after dark, come down to where they sleep in
cardboard boxes, and I'll show you poor!"

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"There was once a middle-class girl, as beautiful as she was good-"

"Stop right there. I think we can cut the beautiful, don't you? Women these days have to
deal with too many intimidating physical role models as it is, what with those bimbos in
the ads. Can't you make her, well, more average?"

"There was once a girl who was a little overweight and whose front teeth stuck out,
who-"

"I don't think it's nice to make fun of people's appearances. Plus, you're encouraging
anorexia."

"I wasn't making fun! I was just describing-"

-------

"Skip the description. Description oppresses. But you can say what colour she was."

"What colour?"

"You know. Black, white, red, brown, yellow. Those are the choices. And I'm telling you
right now, I've had enough of white. Dominant culture this, dominant culture that-"

"I don't know what colour."

"Well, it would probably be your colour, wouldn't it?"

"But this isn't about me! It's about this girl-"

"Everything is about you."

"Sounds to me like you don't want to hear this story at all."

"Oh well, go on. You could make her ethnic. That might help."
-------

"There was once a girl of indeterminate descent, as average-looking as she was good,
who lived with her wicked-"

"Another thing. Good and wicked. Don't you think you should transcend those puritanical
judgmental moralistic epithets? I mean, so much of that is conditioning, isn't it?"

"There was once a girl, as average-looking as she was well-adjusted, who lived with her
stepmother, who was not a very open and loving person because she herself had been
abused in childhood."

-------

"Better. But I am so tired of negative female images! And stepmothers-they always get it
in the neck! Change it to stepfather, why don't you? That would make more sense
anyway, considering the bad behaviour you're about to describe. And throw in some
whips and chains. We all know what those twisted, repressed, middle-aged men are like-"

"Hey, just a minute! I'm a middle-aged-"

"Stuff it, Mister Nosy Parker. Nobody asked you to stick in your oar, or whatever you
want to call that thing. This is between the two of us. Go on."

"There was once a girl-"

"How old was she?"

"I don't know. She was young."

"This ends with a marriage, right?"

"Well, not to blow the plot, but-yes."

"Then you can scratch the condescending paternalistic terminology. It's woman, pal.
Woman."

"There was once-"

"What's this was, once? Enough of the dead past. Tell me about now."

"There-"

"So?"

"So, what?"

"So, why not here?"

Topics sentences (ordered as they corelate with the parts of the text):

a. The way technology and development changed our surrounding and environment.

b. The ever growing gap between the poor and the rich, and the poverty in the modern
world.

c. The way the women are portrayed on TV, commercials, and ads.

d. The problem of racism.

e. The problem of morality in modern society.

f. The (in)equality of sexes and the female role in todays society.

The text is ready- made, There Was Once by Margaret Atwood.

http://newworldwriting.net/backissues/1995/07atwood.html

Students' proficiency level: Upper intermediate

Task description:

Each students recieves 7 pieces of paper. The first piece contains 6 topic sentences, and
the other pieces are jumbled up pieces of the text. The teacher instructs students to match
the pieces to form a complete story, and then to connect the given topic sentences with
the coresponding pieces. The students are given 10 minutes to complete the task. The
teacher then calls out 6 students; each one of them reads one piece of the story, and
immediately after finishing, connects that piece with a coresponding topic sentence.

7. I am a teenager

I get moody. Yes, angry and "full of attitude" would be part of that moody deal. I sleep a
lot, it's one of my favourite hobbies. I don't like getting up early, especially not for
something I see as pointless as school. I stay up all night, those are my favourite hours,
when nobody is awake to bother me and make me do what i don't want to do. I spend all
my time on the computer, instead of going outside and getting some exercise. I have an
endless appetite. I play my music so could you'd think it'd deafen me. I spend a lot of
time on the phone. I don't dress as you do and used to when you were my age, and no
matter how much u criticize me, that isn't about to change. I put off doing things. It's
normal. You know what? I'm not the only one.

The text is ready-made, with some adjustments.

https://www.wattpad.com/6743548-rant-i-am-a-teenager

Pictures used:

Older man:
http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/12/127c770ebf55cce55ab55eeb3d64cb8ec2603cfcd5282f0
e34b9eb73a4db3469.jpg

An adult: http://cdn2.hubspot.net/hub/150140/file-577262929-
jpg/images/getting_braces_as_an_adult.jpg

A teenager: http://www.professorshouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/teenager-
183.jpg

A child: http://www.chscotland.gov.uk/ImageGen.ashx?image=%2Fmedia
%2F18699%2Fboy-in-red-t-
shirt_Banner_Image.jpg&height=347&width=462&crop=false

Students' proficiency level: Upper elementary, lower intermediate

Task description:

Each student is given a text. The teacher informs the students that they have 2 minutes to
read the text, and while they are doing so, he/ she hangs 4 pictures on a blackboard (of an
older man, an adult, a teenager, and a child). After the given 2 minutes have passed, the
teacher asks the students which person from the group of pictures they think had written
the text. After the students respond, they have to provide some kind of a justification
based on the text.

8. Continuity of the Parks

He had begun to read the novel a few days before. He had put it aside because of
some urgent business conferences, opened it again on his way back to the estate by train;
he permitted himself a slowly growing interest in the plot, in the characterizations. That
afternoon, after writing a letter giving his power of attorney and discussing a matter of
joint ownership with the manager of his estate, he returned to the book in the tranquility
of his study which looked out upon the park with its oaks. Sprawled in his favorite
armchair, its back toward the door--even the possibility of an intrusion would have
irritated him, had he thought of it--he let his left hand caress repeatedly the green velvet
upholstery and set to reading the final chapters. He remembered effortlessly the names
and his mental image of the characters; the novel spread its glamour over him almost at
once. He tasted the almost perverse pleasure of disengaging himself line by line from the
things around him, and at the same time feeling his head rest comfortably on the green
velvet of the chair with its high back, sensing that the cigarettes rested within reach of his
hand, that beyond the great windows the air of afternoon danced under the oak trees in
the park. Word by word, licked up the sordid dilemma of the hero and heroine, letting
himself be absorbed to the point where the images settled down and took on color and
movement, he was witness to the final encounter in the mountain cabin. The woman
arrived first, apprehensive; now the lover came in, his face cut by the backlash of a
branch. Admirably, she stanched the blood with her kisses, but he rebuffed her caresses,
he had not come to perform again the ceremonies of a secret passion, protected by a
world of dry leaves and furtive paths through the forest. The dagger warmed itself against
his chest, and underneath liberty pounded, hidden close. A lustful, panting dialogue raced
down the pages like a rivulet of snakes, and one felt it had all been decided from eternity.
Even to those caresses which writhed about the lover's body, as though wishing to keep
him there, to dissuade him from it; they sketched abominably the fame of that other body
it was necessary to destroy. Nothing had been forgotten: alibis, unforeseen hazards,
possible mistakes. From this hour on, each instant had its use minutely assigned. The
cold-blooded, twice-gone-over reexamination of the details was barely broken off so that
a hand could caress a cheek. It was beginning to get dark.

Not looking at each other now, rigidly fixed upon the task which awaited them,
they separated at the cabin door. She was to follow the trail that led north. On the path
leading in the opposite direction, he turned for a moment to watch her running, her hair
loosened and flying. He ran in turn, crouching among the trees and hedges until, in the
yellowish fog of dusk, he could distinguish the avenue of trees which led up to the house.
The dogs were not supposed to bark, and they did not bark. The estate manager would not
be there at this hour, and he was not there. He went up the three porch steps and entered.

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The woman's words reached him over a thudding of blood in his ears: first a blue
chamber, then a hall, then a carpeted stairway. At the top, two doors. No one in the first
room, no one in the second. The door of the salon, and then, the knife in his hand, the
light from the great windows, the high back of an armchair covered in green velvet, the
head of the man in the chair reading a novel.

The text is ready made, Continuity of the Parks, by Julio Cortzar.

https://www.utdallas.edu/~aargyros/continuity_of_the_parks.htm
Students' proficiency level: Upper intermediate

Task description:

Students are divided into groups, 3-4 students per group. Each student is given a text,
witht he lastparagraph covered, so that they can't see the ending. The teacher instructs the
students to read the text, and after that, as a group, come up with a possible ending. The
students are given 10 minutes to do the task. After 10 minutes, the teacher calls out one
student from each group to read or retell the ending the group has come up with. In the
end, the students are instructed to uncover the last paragraph, read the real ending, and
compare it to the ones they came up with.

9. Chocolate

Switzerland is renowned for its exceptional chocolate. From all of those prism-shaped
Toblerone bars in airport duty free shops across the world to the more local Cailler and
Frey varieties, it comes as little surprise that Swiss people consume the most chocolate
per capita of any country worldwide. Every year, the average Swiss person eats just under
9 kg of chocolate. Neighboring Germany is also a nation of chocoholics with annual
consumption per capita amounting to 8 kg.

The Irish also have a sweet tooth and they come joint third with the United Kingdom with
7.4 kg per year. The United States cannot compete with Europe in the chocolate
consumption league and it comes in ninth overall - the average American eats about 4.3
kg of chocolate each year.

The text is ready- made, with some slight adjustments (lbs to kg).

http://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2015/07/22/the-worlds-biggest-chocolate-
consumers-infographic/#2c8c2a5612b8

Students' proficiency level: Lower intermediate

Task description:
Each student is given a text, and is instructed to read it and make a bar graph. X-axis
should contain countires, and Y- axis should containg kg of chocolate per year per person.
The students are given 7 minutes to finish this task. The results are discussed.