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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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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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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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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.
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Intermediate Critical Reading - Photography
Inform your class about the origins of photography with this short passage and accompanying questions. After reading a short informational text, leaners answer 3 questions about the content of the text. This resource could be used in a...
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English Exercises: Mysteries of Anatomy
Consider this online interactive activity as a way to practice the names that often accompany human anatomy, such as the crown of the head and the roof of the mouth. Learners select an anatomy word with a double meaning from a drop-down...
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Present Simple 'Yes/No' Questions with 'Be'
Teach your class how to use the verb "to be" properly in sentences with this worksheet. For this activity, learners compose questions using the present simple forms of to be such as is, are, and am. The directions are limited, so you...
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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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Finding an Apartment
Students practice appropriate etiquette and language when finding an apartment. In this finding an apartment lesson, students role-play examples of manners associated with the task of looking for a place to live. Students work with a...
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World Tuberculosis Day
March 24th is annually recognized as World Tuberculosis Day. In this World Tuberculosis Day worksheet, students complete activities such as word scramble, numbering passages, scrambled sentences, think=pair-share, and peer interviewing....
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You Know, Jack
Increase communication skills, especially among your ESL population, with this activity. Get children up and out of their seats asking clarifying questions about their hypothetical friend "Jack." A chart categorizes questions into "last...
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Rhyming Words
In this English worksheet, students read a list of rhyming words. One list groups rhyming words with the long a sound. A second list groups words with the long o sound.
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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: 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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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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ESL-Days of the Week
In this days of the week activity, students copy the days in the correct order, unscramble from a "word snake" and copy, correct spelling, color the days according to instructions, complete short answer questions and play a game....
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ESL: Animals and Countries
In this animal and countries worksheet, students match pictures and names of animals, find countries given on a map, match animals to countries, copy sentences and spell animal names correctly and design a postage stamp for their...
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ESL-Time Words
In this ESL vocabulary worksheet, students answer 6 questions about days of the week, months of the year, the century and general questions about dates and times, write full and abbreviated dates and complete a crossword puzzle.
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Sports Verbs and Vocabulary
In this sport vocabulary worksheet, students determine which words in a set identify team, individual and opponent sports, match sports, equipment and sports verbs and read short passages to determine sports being played. Questions have...
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House and Home Vocabulary
In this vocabulary worksheet, students draw pictures to illustrate a set of words related to houses/homes, match rooms to the activities that take place in them, tell whether things are inside, outside or on a home, sort items by room...
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ESL-Places in Towns
In this ESL vocabulary activity, students match places to sentences, fill in blanks to complete names of places, correct spelling mistakes and complete true/false questions.Questions have multiple components.
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ESL Invitations and Offers Vocabulary
In this vocabulary worksheet, students place the word "to" correctly to complete sentences making offers or extending invitations, choose correct verbs to complete invitations, underline correct answers for questions given, correct...