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Days of the Week: Beginning ESL Lesson
Practice the days of the week with this ESL presentation, which presents one day per slide. A short description of each day accompanies the day (Sunday: First Day of the Week), and the final slides include the words weekend, weekday, and...
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Descriptions
In this describing and drawing worksheet, students finish filling in the blanks of the names that follow six short descriptions of six animals. Students draw a picture of each animal in the frames provided.
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Movie Riddles: An ESL Activity to Get Student Talking About Movies
Enjoy the thrill of the movies with this ESL activity! Not only can learners talk about their favorite films, but in creating riddles about their chosen movies, they can practice the skills of context clues and deductive reasoning. This...
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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: Practice Using Present Progressive Tense
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...
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ESL Lesson Idea: Describing People
Students practice using the proper vocabulary to provide a physical description of a person. They focus on the details that are necessary to give a complete description by participating in a teacher directed guessing game.
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Exploring Descriptive Language With Different Parts of Speech
Students practice experiencing writing with appropriate language and incorporating the eight parts of speech. They assess that many words have multiple functions when used in different contexts. Each student free writes in response to a...
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ESL Pre-Intermediate Vacation Description Worksheet
For this ESL holidays/vacations worksheet, students complete a questionnaire about their vacation by answering where and when it took place, where they stayed and with whom. They describe the weather and setting.
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ESL What's the Weather Like? Multiple Choice Worksheet
In this ESL weather description worksheet, students examine small pictures of weather situations. They answer the question, "What's the weather like?" by choosing the best answer from four choices. They complete 8 examples.
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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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ESL: Animals
In this ESL naming animals worksheet, students read descriptions of animals and type the correct name of the animal in a box. Students may click on a "show letter" button for help.
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ESL-Clothing Vocabulary
In this ESL clothing vocabulary learning exercise, students learn a rhyme about clothing, name articles of clothing using the rhyme, complete a crossword puzzles and draw people according to descriptions.
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ESL Vocabulary Practice
In this ESL vocabulary practice learning exercise, students look up words and write their definitions, read about adjectives and sentences using them, change singular nouns to plurals and match descriptions to foods.
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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-Household Appliances
In this ESL household appliance worksheet, students read descriptions of 11 household appliances and tell what they are, clicking on an answer button to check for accuracy.
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ESL: Disaster Vocabulary
In this ESL vocabulary instructional activity, students read a set of 10 descriptions related to disasters and determine what is being described. Students may click on an answer button for immediate feedback.
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ESL: Body Parts Vocabulary
in this ESL body parts vocabulary worksheet, students look at pictures and choose the correct word that names each, choosing from a drop down list given, then complete a word search.
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ESL: Body Parts Activity
In this ESL body parts vocabulary worksheet, students watch a video titled, "The Skeleton Dance," then complete a related crossword puzzle matching clues with body parts.
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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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ESL: Matching Descriptions to People
In this ESL matching descriptions worksheet, learners read short descriptions of people next to their pictures, then choose the correct one. A link to audio and HTML code is given.
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ESL Activity: "Name Three, Four and Five Things"
In this ESL naming worksheet, students are given a list of features and list 3 things that fit the description given, then do the same for sets of 4 and 5 features/descriptions.
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ESL: Riddle Vocabulary Activity
In this ESL vocabulary worksheet, students read a description of an item, then choose the correct item being described. Page has links to additional activities.
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ESL: Jobs Activity
In this ESL job identification instructional activity, students match a job title to the job description, choosing from 5 possible answers. Page contains a link to additional activities.
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ESL: What is the Weather Like?
For this ESL weather worksheet, students listen to description of weather conditions found beneath their pictures, then listen again and check the correct answer when they hear the pattern described and complete a weather crossword puzzle.