Wake Me Up - AVICII (transformation exercises)

A beautiful song made in the format of transformation exercises.

You can download this worksheet here

Keep on Rising - Jan Carey (derivatives)

A lovely song, whose lyrics I turned into part 3 of FCE Use of English to help my students revise derivatives.

You can download this worksheet here.

Simple Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd (open cloze)

The lyrics from this rock song are turned into an open cloze exercise.

 You can download this file here.

Try Again - Aalyah (multiple choice)

 A lovely R&B song. The worksheet includes pre- and post-listening questions (topic:first date) and a teacher´s copy.

You can download the worksheet here.

Personality Types

How much does your personality change when you go online participating in various forums and chat rooms? Who are all these people you're involved in a hot debate with? Check this personality guide from Mike Reed, who made a great effort to enlighten us on who is who there.
Here's the foreword from the author:

"Some years ago, a calm and quiet discussion forum that I belonged to erupted into a burning flame war. While the forum burnt, I amused myself by drawing caricatures of the main participants. Over the years, the list of online fighters has grown into the Flame Warriors - the different personalities we become when we go online."

A big thanks to my colleague Sofia (uslteacher) from Eslprintables for putting it up on the forum. Cheers! 

And now it's time to meet your online reflection and that of your opponents

Sincerely Yours, Coffee Clutch!

The importance of reading books

It's more and more rarely that you come across people who declare reading books as their hobby. On the face of it, there's nothing strange about it - nowadays a great number of people simply don't have any free time for any hobby whatsoever in the attempt to earn money; those who do have some spare time give their preferences to what seems to be more sophisticated hobbies, such as extreme sport, travelling or simply living an active social life whether online or offline. However, this is a very sad fact that reading books for pleasure has stopped to be fun  and an image of a person enjoying a good book curled up in a comfortable  armchair has become obsolete (I can even imagine the perplexed look on the face of some people: "What? Reading books for fun? for pleasure? OMG, how boring").
This is an amazing speech and a script on the importance of reading. Look at an excerpt from the speech:

"Albert Einstein was asked once how we could make our children intelligent. His reply was both simple and wise. "If you want your children to be intelligent," he said, "read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
 Listen and then ... enjoy your literary trip!  

Meat vs Vegetarian Diet

There's has been a lot said about the advantages and disadvantages of both diets, so which is healthier?
Can you think of pros and cons of both diets?
Is the word vegetarian tantamount (=equal) to the word healthy eater? 

Watch  the video from http://www.huffingtonpost.com, a website about healthy lifestyle, which will help you answer the questions above