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World Teachers' Day
Practice reading comprehension by having your class read a factual passage about World Teachers' Day and mach phrases, fill in the blanks, identify correct grammar usage, unscramble vocabulary words, sequence sentences from the passage,...
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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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The Beginner's Guide to Teaching ESL Abroad
The expected, unexpected, retrospective, and respected perspective of teaching overseas.
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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.
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ESL Storyboards
In this ESL literacy worksheet, students examine each individual board and then use them to tell and write a story about the events.
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Effective Back-to-School Nights
Here is an engaging and creative project to do with your ESL learners in preparation for back to school night. A digital camera is used to photograph each pupil, and everyone completes a short writing assignment that goes along with...
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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...
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ESL Vocabulary Trace and Read: Shapes and Colors
Intended for young English language learners, these worksheets offer scaffolding for youngsters to practice writing the names of colors and shapes. The first provides the most help, and the third provides almost no help at all....
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ESL: Present Perfect and Present Simple Tense
Your English learners, or young native speakers, can practice converting affirmative sentences into negative ones using various verb forms. Forty-five opportunities are provided. Page contains links to additional resources and audio...
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Hypothetically Speaking for ESL
Students play a game in which they try to speak hypothetically. In this ESL questioning instructional activity, students play a card game in pairs in which they ask hypothetical questions and attempt to guess how the other student will...
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Animal Body Parts for ESL
Students describe what animals look like. In this ESL vocabulary development lesson, students complete worksheets and use images to help them describe what animals look like.
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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: Relative Clauses-Whose, Which, Who
Designed for English language learners, this interactive website provides practice with relative clauses. The words who, which, and whose are the focus of the two exercises provided. The first exercise asks the participant to choose...
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ESL Vocabulary Word Search: Classroom
Six word searches help early readers and writers to practice writing and spelling typical classroom vocabulary. Each puzzle includes the same words, but the puzzles are each different.
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ESL: Practice Tag Questions
Use this resource with your kids learning English as their second language. They read the short description of tag questions before attempting to complete 10 themselves.
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Lesson Plan 1: Practice Keyboarding Skills
The two lessons in this resource serve as an introduction to the keyboard and typing. While seated at a computer, pupils view an overhead display of the board and are introduced to the functions of the various keys. Designed for language...
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ESL: Man or Woman?
In this ESL man or woman worksheet, learners read words that name people, then select whether the word names a man, woman or either. Page contains a link to additional activities.
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ESL: Matching Vocabulary Activity
In this ESL vocabulary worksheet, students choose from a drop down list, matching a given word with its correct category. Students may check answers and scores online.
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ESL Comprehension Activity
In this ESL comprehension worksheet, students watch a video, then complete the text of the video, filling in blanks with the appropriate words.
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ESL: Do or Does?
In this ESL do/does worksheet, students choose either "do" or "does" to correctly begin a set of sentences. Students then complete a similar activity, choosing either is/are/do/does.
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ESL: Long Vowel Activity
In this ESL long vowel worksheet, students write words for pictures that contain a long vowel sound. Students may click on a sound icon to hear the word if necessary.
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ESL: Such An/Such A/So/Such
For this ESL vocabulary worksheet, students fill in blanks in sentences with either such an, such a, so or such, 27 total. A link to audio and HTML code is given.
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ESL: Classroom Objects Vocabulary
In this ESL vocabulary worksheet, students identify the names of objects found in a classroom, watch a video and select the correct word for objects shown and unscramble words.
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ESL: Phrasal Verbs
In this ESL phrasal verb activity, students choose the correct verb that completes a sentences accompanying a picture, then determine whether the phrasal verb is separable or non-separable. Students also complete a word search.