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The Beginner's Guide to Teaching ESL Abroad
The expected, unexpected, retrospective, and respected perspective of teaching overseas.
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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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How Much Is It? A Shopping Lesson Plan for ESL
Students participate in a role-playing activity in order to practice conversational English used while shopping. In this practical vocabulary lesson, students practice etiquette as it pertains to grocery shopping. Students pretend...
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Reported Speech Soccer for ESL
Learners explore English by participating in a class trivia activity. In this group speech lesson plan, students collaborate in small groups and identify phrases and terms on flash cards which they keep track of. Learners utilize their...
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Film Festival: An ESL Lesson Plan to Get Students Talking About Movies Part II
Students discuss movies currently playing in theaters. In this class discussion, students practice their oral dictation, retelling of information and the ability to carry a social conversation. Students also complete a worksheet...
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Airport English: A Role-Play for ESL
Students explore the skills needed to navigate an airport. In this foreign language instructional activity, students discuss the skills they will need in order to make it through customs with as little trouble as possible.
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Can - for Ability
You can do it! Practice action verbs and using can for ability with a series of activities designed for English learners. Kids jump, stomp, and turn as they discuss the things they can and can't do.
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Have You Seen Jack?
Students study relative clauses and appositives. In this ESL lesson, students role play. Students use relatives clauses and appositives to describe people. Students use dialogue.
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Say and Spell CVC Words Board Game
ESL young scholars practice saying and spelling consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words. In this spelling lesson, students play a board game that requires them to look at a picture and say then spell the word pictured. The first student to...
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Animal Kingdom Game
Young scholars build their vocabulary and communication skills by describing animals found in nature. In this ESL instructional activity, students play a board game to compare and contrast animals. Young scholars respond to icons,...
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Christmas Lesson 1
Little ones sing Christmas carols, complete craft projects, and play word games while learning new vocabulary in part one of two-part ESL lesson series.
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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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Phonics Monsters Rummy!
Students play the game Phonics Rummy and practice making words from phonics monster cards. In this ESL lesson, students respond to icons. Students also respond to pictures and words while reading phrases that provide visual cues.
ESL Kid Stuff
Vegetables
Help your learners exercise healthy eating habits with a series of activities about vegetables. Kids learn about common vegetables with songs, matching games, flashcards, and crafts.
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Toys
The world is a rainbow of colors in a set of lessons for English learners. Kids review colors with matching games and hide-and-seek, before singing songs about colors and reading a class story.
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Say and Spell Long Vowel Bossy E Board Game
Students practice saying and spelling long vowel "bossy E" words. In this spelling activity, students play a board game that requires them to look at a picture, say and spell the word. The first person to the end wins.
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Say and Spell Consonant Digraph Board Game
Students download from a website to learn about digraphs. In this digraphs lesson, students download a digraphs game to practice digraphs.
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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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Phonics Monster Game Suggestion: Change It
Students play the game "Change It" and practice making words from phonic monster cards. In this "Change It" lesson, students read words and phrases that are used as functional print with visual cues. Students respond to icons, pictures,...
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Word War Game
Students play a game with knights and monsters and if they can say the word under the knight, the knight will win, but if not, the monster wins. In this words lesson plan, students try to make all the knights win.
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Could You Do Me a Favour?
Learners role play situations where they make requests to each other. In this requests lesson plan, students make their requests in English.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Teacher Online Resources (Esl/ell)
Online resources for teachers of English language learners. Includes links to professional organizations, scholarship and policy resources, and other teacher resources.
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Teachers First: Adapt a Strategy: Adjusting Lessons for Esl/ell Students
This site provides a lengthy list of class activities with links to strategies, videos, resources, and online tools for adopting each one for English language learners.
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Forefront Publishers: Esl Through Music
A wonderful resource for second language and ESL teachers interested in developing their students' language skills through song. It offers many ready-made ESL musical lesson plans, an annotated bibliography of songbooks and audio...