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World Food
After reading a short paragraph about popular world foods, language learners complete a word search and answer eight questions based on the paragraph. No answer key is provided.
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Personal and Possessive Pronouns
You said what to whom? Pupils have 14 opportunities to practice personal object, personal subject, possessive adjectives, and possessive pronouns. What fun!
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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.
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Personality Adjectives
Men are sneakier then women! ESL/ELL classmates are asked to consider whether each word in a list of personality adjectives describes a positive or negative quality or whether the word could describe both positive and negative qualities....
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Family Word Search
English language learners look for eleven words hidden in a tree-shaped word search. All the nouns refer to family members.
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Describing Clothes
A instructional activity all about clothing and colors, this might be a useful instructional activity for English language learners or introducing descriptive writing. After a short review of colors and clothing vocabulary, learners...
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Final /-s/ and /-es/ Pronunciation
Practice the pronunciation of the final /-s/ and /-es/ sound with this learning exercise. After reading information about and looking at charts of voiced and voiceless sounds, learners determine what the final sounds of plural words...
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ESL: Business Vocabulary Word Search
Language associated with business, economics, jobs, and the workplace makes up this word search puzzle with 54 items to find. Lesson has links to printable pdf and HTML formats, with answer keys for each. Some spellings are of British...
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ESL: Classmates Survey
Get your beginning English Learners moving with this class survey. They ask each other the 8 questions provided to find out "How many of your classmates..." Good practice for asking questions that start with"Do you..." including "make...
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Leaders in the Anza Expedition
Students conduct Internet research on historical characters in the Anza expeditions. They compare/contrast the Anza leaders and analyze their relationships to each other in the Anza expedition.
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Illnesses and Injuries: Health Vocabulary
Help your English learners name what's ailing them with this presentation about illnesses and injuries. From backaches to sunburns, to measles, the funny illustrations in these slides will help your class to identify the English words...
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Backyards: Beginning ESL Lesson
Give new meaning to the phrase "in your own backyard" with this presentation. Vocabulary words about backyards, such as lawn mower, patio, and birdbath will help your ESL students identify the everyday items around their house. Use this...
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High Frequency Phrases: Second 100 Words
Use this resource to reinforce language skills in an ESL classroom. Learners review high frequency phrases such as, I think so, it's your place, and read the book. While there is not a description of how this presentation could be used,...
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Discussion Starters
When working in an ESL classroom, this resource could be used to provide discussion starters. Phrases such as, "through the day" or "around here," could be used as a way to spur discussion.
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Common Phrases
While not a complete lesson, this activity could be used to launch a discussion of common English phrases. In this series of slides, phrases like "come back now" are shown. A teacher could augment this activity with more variety of phrases.
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High-Frequency Phrases: Third 100 Words
When discussing common phrases used in the English language, this resource could be helpful. With a list of ninety phrases such as, without a care, this presentation could be used to delve into the meaning of common expressions in an...
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Giving Directions
While incomplete, this lesson provides an interesting way to approach an activity on giving and following directions. Learners work in groups, using a newspaper and maps, to give each other directions to a specific location. The handouts...
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Wrap a Gift
With wrapping a gift as the focus, this lesson has learners practice vocabulary and formulating descriptions. They wrap and unwrap a gift identifying the objects as they go. This activity could be enhanced to make it a richer experience.
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The 50 States and its Holidays
Though the format of this ELL lesson is confusing (the standards listed are for plate tectonics, yet the objectives are for American geography and holidays), a teacher could glean some ideas from the main idea. Here, pupils complete a...
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Irregular Verbs
While short and to the point, this presentation focuses on present, past, and past participle forms of irregular verbs. Examples, charts, and definitions are included on the 3 slides. By adding additional content this could be a great...
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Prepositions after Adjectives
In this prepositions after adjectives instructional activity, learners read extracts from the "Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English" to find prepositions after adjectives and match beginnings and endings to form sentences.
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English Language and Culture Quiz
In this English language and culture quiz activity, students answer a set of 13 multiple choice questions covering a variety of topics. Page contains multiple links to ESL resources.
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Exercise on Simple Past
In this English grammar worksheet, students focus on using the simple past tense. Students complete 10 short answer questions and self check on this interactive web page.
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Irregular Past Tense
In this grammar worksheet, students use the irregular past tense verbs. Students complete 15 fill in the blank statements choosing the correct verb from the word box at the top of the page.