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Explore the world of home repair using this ESL presentation. With terms like construction worker, painter, and electrician, the vivid and clear illustrations on each slide will help your beginning ESL learners identify various occupations. Use this slideshow in a unit about jobs or homes.
Soak up the sunshine in this ESL presentation about summer and words associated with summer. Clear, bright illustrations help to define words and phrases like "sleep in a hammock" and "build a sandcastle." Helpful for a unit about seasons or activities, this presentation will appeal to your beginning English learners.
In this ESL worksheet, students choose phrases closest in meaning to underlined phrases in sentences. Worksheet is part of a site with links to additional activities.
Vroom vroom! Get behind the wheel of a vehicle in this ESL presentation about transportation. Clear illustrations help to define thirty transportation words such as car, pickup truck, and airplane. Use this presentation in the context of a unit about transportation, or in a game to reinforce vocabulary.
Small, cartoonish pictures of people expressing emotions and actions (blowing his nose, holding her head and frowning, dancing, smiling) provide the basis for writers to describe the feelings and experiences taking place. Help your ESL writers practice using the present progressive tense. Title is "That's Too Bad," but several pictures are of smiling people.
In this ESL expressions and idioms worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures that illustrate common idioms. Students match these to the idioms they depict.
With vivid illustrations and clear text, this presentation is a great way to introduce a unit about seasons or seasonal activities to your beginning ESL class. Phrases such as swing on a swing, cut the grass, and have a garage sale help to establish common vocabulary associated with spring. You could augment this presentation with a discussion about other spring activities.
Take a trip to the jewelry store in this ESL presentation. Gleaming with illustrations of different types of jewelry, such as earrings, bracelets, and cufflinks, this slideshow is ideal for beginning English learners who could use the simple vocabulary reinforcement. Bring in examples of each type of jewelry to enhance the lesson.
Students fix comma splices. In this ESL activity, students recognize comma splices and find ways to fix them. They complete a worksheet finding comma splices and correct sentences.
For this ESL advanced vocabulary worksheet, students read 8 sentences that have a missing word. From 4 choices of similar words, students fill in the word that best completes each sentence.