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Breaking News English: Indigenous Amazon Rainforest Tribe
In this Indigenous Amazon Rainforest Tribe worksheet, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion...
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Breaking News English: Accents
In this accents instructional activity, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion questions,...
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Breaking News English: The Beatles Suing EMI
In this Beatles suing EMI, worksheet, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion questions,...
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Breaking News English: Bees
For this bees worksheet, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion questions, write, and more...
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Cross-Cultural Exploration
High schoolers in an ESL classroom identify and locate the states on a United States map. Using the internet, they research to compare the holidays in their home country and the United States. They share their findings in an email to...
ESL Kid Stuff
Prepositions of Location
Over, under, beside. Language learners practice using prepositions of location to answer the question, "Where is . . ."
ESL Kid Stuff
Describing People (Adjectives)
As part of a series of lessons focusing on the parts of speech, language learners engage in games and exercises that encourage them to use adjectives to describe people.
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Getting Dressed For Success
Pupils in an ESL classroom describe and identify different clothing items. In groups, they compare and contrast the various clothing tradtions found in each home country. They discuss the importance of clothing and how they should...
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National Dictionary Day
In this National Dictionary Day activity, students complete activities including reading a passage, matching phrases, fill in the blanks, correct word choosing, multiple choice, sequencing, unscramble the sentences, write questions, take...
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New Year's Eve
In this New Year's Eve worksheet, students complete activities such as read the passage, match the phrases, fill in the blanks, choose the correct word, multiple choice fill in, correct the spelling, put text in correct order, unscramble...
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One Big Happy Family
Students will explore the role and structure of the family in the target culture and the relationships among family members. The skills help learners make connections to language because the information of the lesson uses personal examples.
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Real World English Pronunciation
Students explore various verbal and nonverbal ways to improve their English pronunciation. They create a short biography and practice reading them with an English accent, using appropriate language, intonation, and body language.
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Using Pictures in the Classroom
Young scholars review vocabulary by answering questions about an image, drawing the picture and taking notes. They compare their pictures and describe the differences.
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Introducing...Me
Learners 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 learners acquiring...
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Creating a School Web Site
Students create websites for their school. They work in groups as a web team and devise a self-management plan. As they work on projects reflecting school life, the team edits what may appear online as the school's web site. Writing...
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Breaking News English: Ireland 'No' Vote Plunges EU into Crisis
In this English learning exercise, learners read "Ireland 'No' Vote Plunges EU into Crisis," and then respond to 1 essay, 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the...
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Breaking News English: Children Learn Social Skills in Web World
In this English worksheet, students read "Children Learn Social Skills in Web World," and then respond to 1 essay, 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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Breaking News English: Television Shoes
In this English worksheet, students read " Television Shoes," and then respond to 1 graphic organizer, 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
British Council
British Council Learn English Central: Listening and Watch
A selection of 20 or so mp3 listening files, with audioscripts, that you can download and play on your computer or portable player. Each comes with a follow-up activity -- these can vary, e.g., an offline writing assignment, online...
Randall Davis
Esl Cyber Listening Lab
More than 100 listening quizzes designed for English-language learners are available at this site ranging from quizzes for high-beginning English speakers to advanced English speakers. Each quiz has a prelistening exercise, listening...
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Elllo: English Language Listening Lab Online
This is an extremely useful place for the improving listening skills of English language learners. Contains numerous listening exercises, such as dialogues, games, interviews, songs, news broadcasts, and more. Each activity has a number...
Charles I. Kelly and Lawrence E. Kelly
Many Things for Esl Japanese Version
This is the Japanese version of the well-known Interesting Things for ESL site (the authors are professors teaching in Japan). The Japanese site has many of the same features as the English Only version in fact, it usually goes to the...
Other
Daily Esl: Conversation Starters for English Students
Listen and read along with several real-life scenarios to help expand understanding and conversational language. Listening activities are followed by a variety of quizzes, discussion questions, and role-play activities.
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Food (La Comida): Listening/dialogs
Wonderful, extensive site for Spanish-speaking ELL. In this section, students listen to a couple of short audio clip dialogs in English and then answer interactive comprehension questions. Several activities provided - instructions in...