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Breaking English News - "Terror Returns to Bali"
In this ESL/ELL reading comprehension and grammar activity, students read or listen to an article from October 2, 2005 entitled, "Terror Returns To Bali." They complete short answer, true or false, fill in the blank, and matching...
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Learning To Use Quotation Marks
Students explore the use of quotation marks. In this grammar lesson, students read dialogue and explore the rules of quotation mark use as they practice using the marks on a worksheet assignment.
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Words in the News: Stem Cell Research
A thorough resource for intermediate English learners addresses reading comprehension of informational texts, adjective forms, vocabulary acquisition, and writing in a journalistic style. Specifically, the class reads about stem cell...
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For and Since
Fill in the blanks with a worksheet that focuses on for and since. As kids read 20 time-related phrases, they decide whether to use for, since, or no reply.
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Understanding Pronouns
Students explore pronouns. In this English grammar lesson plan, students examine the use of personal pronouns and complete a worksheet regarding singular and plural personal pronouns.
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Preparing for the New SAT
Read the College Board's explanation of changes in the SAT for 2005, including essay and grammar questions, use College Board's suggestions for ways to study, practice sample questions, and explore other sites with practice tests.
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Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement Made Easy
Middle and high schoolers check their writing for pronoun-antecedent agreement. After identifying the pronouns in their writing, they then complete a table with the pronouns and corresponding antecedents, making revisions as necessary.
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Car For Sale!
Car For sale! For this GED prep lesson, writers develop a classified advertisement to sell a car. After a discussion of precise words and phrases, telling details, and sensory language, sellers draft their ad for review, revision and...
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Parts-of-Speech Tall Tales
Here is a lesson that can work for virtually any grade level! Pupils study parts of speech such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, proper nouns, and adverbs. They create fill in the blank tall tails on a web page for their classmates to complete.
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Slang and Language Change
Slang, as an example of language change in action, is the focus of a short activity that asks learners to contribute examples to a class list of terms that they use to separate themselves from other groups or adults. Consider expanding...
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My Daily Routine
Foreign language learners work in pairs to translate the daily routine of celebrities or everyday people, presented in daily planner format, into English. They then illustrate and record their own daily routines in storyboard (film...
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Time Capsule: Oral Presentation
A great way to gain proficiency when learning a new language is to prepare an oral presentation. In this foreign language lesson, pairs collaborate to develop a Time Capsule which they present to their class using their target language.
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Ways Twitter Makes You a Better Writer
Practice being concise. Exercise your vocabulary. Improve your editing skills. The contention in this lesson is that by imposing a 140 character limit, the Twitter format actually helps improve writing skills. And of course class tweets...
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Clauses: Essential Building-Blocks
Clear up clause confusion with this grammar handout, complete with a clause identification activity. Using the detailed information and examples of the different types of clauses provided in the activity, secondary learners identify and...
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Verb Patterns Pellmanism Game- Intermediate Version
Students sort verb tenses. In this English grammar lesson plan, students work with a partner to sort cards with verbs written on them into 3 piles including verbs with "ing," the infinitive form (meaning "want to"), and the infinitive...
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Get in the Newspaper Habit
Dive into journalism with your high schoolers! The resources provided here will help your learners write unbiased, clear, and succinct newspaper articles. First they spend time sifting through stacks of articles, filling out a graphic...
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Parallelism
Learners use writing to show their understanding of parallel writing structures. For this ESL grammar lesson, students view PowerPoints, listen to short lectures and audio presentations. Learners categorize phrases, write stories that...
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TOEFLesque Quiz - Jury Duty in the US
In this online interactive grammar skills lesson, students examine 11 sentences and identify the part of each sentence that is grammatically incorrect.
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TOEFLesque Quiz - Cable TV in San Francisco
In this online interactive grammar skills lesson, learners examine 8 sentences and identify the part of each sentence that is grammatically incorrect.
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TOEFLesque Quiz: Big News Events from the 1990s
In this online interactive grammar skills lesson, students examine 10 sentences and identify the part of each sentence that is grammatically incorrect.
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Business Expressions Quiz - Part 1
In this online interactive grammar skills instructional activity, students answer 5 fill in the blank questions regarding business vocabulary. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Daily Language Practice Builds Skills, Test Scores
Students develop their proofreading skills. In this daily language practice lesson, students improve their writing skills as they edit passages. The editing work encompasses capitalization, punctuation, and grammar.
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Day Two: Greeting and dialogues
Students practice greetings and dialogues in English. In this ELL lesson, students watch a silent video with people greeting one another and make predictions about what they are saying. They write dialogues and share them with a neighbor.
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Day One: Dinner foods and beverages
Students learn English vocabulary for dinner foods and beverages. In this ELL lesson, students create a list of healthy foods and discuss good food habits. They discuss healthy activities and exercises.