Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Off to Adventure!: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 1)
Give language skills a boost with a series of ESL lessons in an Off to Adventure! themed unit. Using a speak, listen, move, and look routine, scholars enhance proficiency through grand conversation and skills practice. Discussion topics...
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ESL Grammar Lessons
Practice makes perfect when it comes to learning grammar with this ESL resource. Offering a great way to teach about relative clauses, this activity engages students with a series of partner, small group, and whole class speaking and...
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Helping Verbs: Grammar for ESL/ELL
English language learners act out verbs, discuss their importance in constructing grammatically correct sentences, and then learn about helping verbs. They use helping verbs in a sentence then discuss how they are different from action...
Azar Grammar
Students as “Grammarians”: Discovering Grammatical Rules Lesson on the Causative “Have”
Groups examine a series of examples, identify the common elements, and work together to discover "the causative" grammar rule represented.
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ESL: Around Town Matching
Tiny pictures of buildings found around town can be matched with their names in this exercise for beginning English Learners. Indefinite articles are included with vocabulary; nice way to reinforce the "a/an" rule. Pictures are quite...
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ESL: What's the Weather Like?
Beginning English learners practice describing the weather with help from eight picture clues. Questions are phrased like "How's the weather?" and "What's the weather like?" Tinker with the formatting to make it all fit on one page...
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ESL: Basic Vocabulary Matching
Newcomers to English can practice vocabulary about food, daily actions, and school supplies with this 10-question matching exercise. Simple line drawings represent basic terms for beginners.
Savvas Learning
Comparatives and Superlatives
If not the best, then certainly one of the better grammar resources designed for language learners, this packet focuses on comparatives and superlatives.
Savvas Learning
Gerunds and Infinitives
Gerunds and infinitives are the focus of this 24-page grammar packet designed to give language learners opportunities to practice using these parts of speech. Included are exercises, activities, games, and assessments.
Curated OER
Learning English: Level C Lesson 119
For this ESL worksheet, pupils complete a 20 question multiple choice online interactive assessment about the correct use of English grammar in sentences.
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ESL: Gerunds and Infinitives
In this ESL gerunds and infinitives worksheet, students read about the usage of gerunds and infinitives, then complete multiple choice questions, clicking on an answer button for immediate feedback.
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ESL: Body Parts Matching
Match drawings of basic body parts with their names. A handy tool for teachers of beginning ELLs.
ESL Kid Stuff
Past Tense Activities - Irregular Verbs
"What did you do yesterday?" Language learners engage in carefully scaffolded activities that review past tense regular verbs, that introduce new vocabulary words, and that permit practice of using the past tense of irregular verbs.
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ESL: Beginning Vocabulary Matching
Beginning English Learners match 10 line-drawn pictures of basic nouns with their names, such as kite, airplane, goat, and igloo. Indefinite articles are included, so this exercise also provides reinforcement for the a/an rule.
ESL Kid Stuff
Past Tense Activities - Regular Verbs
Here is a supplemental lesson plan regarding past tense verbs for English language learners that is a great tool for the classroom when you are teaching grammar exercises.
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October's Lesson Plan
Learners listen to poetry about crocodiles. After discussing the relationship between humans and crocodiles, they make a list of ways humans hurt crocodiles and then write Prelutsky's poem from the crocodile perspective.
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Guess What Board Game
Students play the game "Guess What" to review using a relative clause. In this ESL lesson, students listen to the teacher describe something using the relative clause and then guess what that thing is or the students must define...
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ESL "Can You...?" Activity Survey Worksheet
In this ESL activity survey worksheet, students survey classmates to determine who can do the 8 named activities. They write down the name of the student and check yes or no to record if classmates can do things such as cook, play the...
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ESL- Words That Describe Weather
In this ESL weather words worksheet, students look at 7 clip art pictures of weather scenes. They write words, in the space next to each number, that describe the weather shown in the picture.
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ESL What is He/She Doing Multiple Choice Worksheet
In this ESL "What is he/she doing?" multiple choice worksheet, student examine a clipart picture of a person doing an activity. They tell what the person in the picture is doing in 8 multiple choice questions.
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ESL Animal Word Matching
In this ESL animal word matching worksheet, students look 10 blackline pictures of animals. They match the picture with the word that names the animal such as a rabbit, a snake, a dog, or a lion.
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ESL Transportation Word Matching Worksheet
In this ESL transportation word matching activity, students examine black-line pictures of vehicles. They match the picture with the word that names it, such as a sailboat, a train, a motorcycle, or a canoe.
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ESL Naming The Body Parts Worksheet
In this ESL body parts naming worksheet, students examine 10 clipart pictures of body parts. They match the pictures of the part with the words that describe them such as eyebrow, arm, neck, and thigh.
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ESL Clothing Words Matching Worksheet
In this ESL clothing words learning exercise, students examine 10 clip art pictures of items of clothing. They match the items to the words that name them.