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Changing Between Singular and Plural Nouns
Appropriate for language learners and native English speakers, this worksheet asks learners to provide the plural version of singular nouns and the singular form of plural nouns.
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Pasatiempos en Venezuela
Pupils discuss pastimes in our country and Spanish speaking countries. They listen to a cassette of interviews; identify and explain pastimes of native speakers and create or find material outside of the classroom related to pastimes.
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Helpful Phrases
Learning Spanish in the classroom is a lot different than using the language in a Spanish-speaking country! Beginning Spanish learners learn how to ask whether someone speaks English, if their conversation partner can repeat him or...
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Finding Relevant Information and Asking Research Questions: The Benefits of Video Games
Video games may not be so bad after all. As scholars read the text "The Many Benefits, for Kids, of Playing Video Games," they summarize the gist in their researchers' notebooks. Next, pupils draft supporting research questions based on...
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Speak Up
Bring back some of your favorite kids for this lesson. Emerging speakers observe older learners making effective and ineffective oral presentations. They discuss each presentation and then prepare a speech of their own to deliver to the...
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Transport and Dialect
Cultivating an interest in native dialects and how they differ from Standard English is an excellent introduction to the study of language. This resource looks at the dialectic words of the British Isles that are used for methods of...
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Tenses and Time Expressions
Now that your class has worked to understand verb tenses and time expressions, assess them on their understanding and application. Seven questions are provided here; for each, English language learners (or young native speakers) must...
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ESL: Commonly Confused Words-Quiz 11
This quiz includes words that are very similar and supposedly very commonly confused. The learner reads 20 sentences and decides which of two choices best fits the sentence provided. Keep this as a resource to use with English language...
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Prepositions
English language learners and native speakers alike will benefit from this preposition review. Prepositions are defined, and then there is a practice opportunity provided that spans two slides.
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Studying English Abroad
Pupils explore what it might be like to study English in another country. In this ESL lesson, students complete several activities that represent what it might be like to experience learning the English language in another country,...
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Introducing...Me
High schoolers practice rephrasing techniques to ask and answer questions in order to maintain conversational exchanges. Students create scripts about themselves to use as conversation starters. This lesson is intended for high...
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Vínculo entre la escuela y el hogar
Native Spanish speakers write about their family with this take home assignment. Working with an adult, they craft several sentences that describes the members of their family. Then, once completed, both the learner and the adult sign...
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Word Pair Analogies 6 (high-advanced level)
Linking words together in an analogy really deepens one's understanding of the word at hand. Use the example provided to guide your advanced English speakers (both native and non-native) in this analogy practice. More than likely, your...
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Using "Can"
English language learners or young native English speakers practice using the word can in the six sentences provided. They match the beginning of each sentence provided with the appropriate phrases in the word pool.
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Commonly Confused Words - Quiz 16
These words are very confusing for non-native English speakers because they sound very similar, but they have different meanings. Quiz your English language learners on their knowledge of various homophones with this 20-question quiz.
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What's In A Name: UTAH
Fourth graders discuss the possible origins of the word, Utah. They use multiple resource sources to present a more accurate picture of Native Americans. They discover that historic ideas change as new information is discovered or...
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Challenge to Communicate
Students use Lewis and Clark's journals to identify the forms of non-verbal communication they used. They discover the problems they faced on their journey and how they overcame them. They practice using the non-verbal language of the...
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Dictionary Practice 3
Originally designed for English language learners, this learning exercise about dictionary usage could be used with native speakers as well! Give each pupil a dictionary and have them search for the nine listed words. They record the...
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To Whom It May Concern
An overview of when to use who or whom in spoken and written English.
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La Presencia Escondida: Spanish Speakers in Our Community
Students effectively operate a digital camera and conduct basic interviews with Spanish speaking people in Spanish. They conduct in-depth interviews with interviewees in English, if possible, and transcribe all or portions of the...
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Order of Adjectives: Circle the Correct One
Which comes first in an adjective phrase: a word denoting a noun's quality, or a word describing a noun's function? If your elementary grammarians don't know the answer, have them review ten pairs of adjective phrases and circle the one...
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Perfect Plurals
Turkeys/turkeyes. Deer/deers. Foots/feet. This fill-in-the-blanks activity asks learners to select the form of the noun that correctly completes each of the provided sentences.
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Active and Passive Voice
Adult language learners will benefit from this 20-slide presentation about active and passive voice constructions. Learners craft active and passive voice questions in the simple present and simple past tenses.
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Expressing Past Time: Word Search
Here's a fun way to review irregular past-tense verbs! Your English language learners or native speakers will find eight examples in the word search puzzle provided. Sentence clues are provided for each. For example, "I the...