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What Did He Say?
Students practice the use of Subjunctive I and II. They then analyze a text to find Indirect Discourse and practice writing sentences in Indirect discourse. For homework, students find an online article written this way in which they...
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Have You Seen Jill? A Business ESL Role-play
Students practice role-playing to use relative clauses and to describe people. In this ESL lesson, students use verbal expressions to describe the actions of people in an office. Students work with a partner to initiate...
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An Ancient Egyptian Journal Entry
Students, after watching W?hat Does This Show, describe everyday life in ancient Egypt by writing an entry in the journal of an ancient Egyptian man or woman.
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The Self
Students practice using new vocabulary while using adjectives to describe people and feelings. They watch and participate in demonstrations on how to pronuciate certain words. They also complete writing assignments in Spanish.
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Different Ethnic Groups in Ecuador, Panama and Argentina: Their Assimilation and their Contributions
Students research various Latin American countries and reflect on the different ethnic communities represented in that country and their contributions to the region. They make posters, perform skits and write letters about their research.
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Write All About It
Fourth graders use research skills and the writing process to create a newspaper. Although students work in groups to complete the final draft of the newspaper, each student is responsible for doing his or her own research and writing...
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American Robin: Territory Study
Students read the article, American Robins: Territory Study, discussing the vocabulary, underlining key words, and taking notes. They write journal entries, and develop various writer's workshop assignments.
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I Love Navarre
Third graders use a research checklist to gather information for a brochure of their local area. students then use a Brochure Data List and Brochure Rubric to edit their brochure. They discuss and revise and create their final brochure.
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Creating Laws
Students brainstorm ideas for legislation and present their ideas to the class. They draft a bill and take it through the normal procedures of the Canadian Parliament.
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Assembling the Best Possible Cabinet
Students organize a list of qualities that a person must have to become a Prime Minister in Canada, and in groups discuss the quality of choices made by each group. They compare/contrast the list with the current Prime Minister.
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Art or Artifact?
Students analyze and discuss illustrations of the New World by John White. They examine the images, answer questions about each one, and write an essay.
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Making Formal Requests
Students investigate the concept of making formal requests and examples are included in the lesson for teacher presentation. They practice using the phrases in a variety of situations and then make presentations for others to hear.
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Expressing the Future Resource Sheet
In this expressing the future resource worksheet, students examine the use of present simple, present continuous, be going to, and will words. They see examples in each of four boxes that example the use of words to express the future.
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Parts of Speech
Fifth graders examine the use of parts of speech. In this parts of speech instructional activity, 5th graders review the parts of speech in a teacher led activity that uses a song (not included). They color code the give parts of speech...
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Dear Darla
Students write a letter. In this language arts lesson, students play the role of an advice column journalist. Students respond to a letter asking for advice.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Subject Verb Agreement
This site has a ten question quiz which provides a way to print results with a name and course. Explanations are provided for incorrect answers. Based on material by Evelyn Farbman and Houghton Mifflin, used by permission.
Better English Lessons
Better English: Irregular Verbs Quiz
Ten questions to test your knowledge of irregular verbs. The base form is given, and you are to select the past tense for these verbs.
Road to Grammar
Road to Grammar: Verb Forms
This interactive provides the base words of irregular verbs and asks students to type the past and past participle tenses of them in boxes.
English Zone
English Zone: Verb and Preposition Combinations
With this 10 question multiple choice practice quiz, students select a preposition to fill in the blank and get a score based on their responses.
Charles I. Kelly and Lawrence E. Kelly
Word Based Games for Esl Students
Games that focus attention on different trouble spots in English language learning: irregular words, homonyms, prefixes, and more.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: Expresiones Con Tener
Great exercise for practicing idiomatic expressions using the verb, "tener." Based on the context of each sentence, the student selects the words from a drop-down menu that completes the appropriate expression. Immediate feedback...
University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina Writing Center Handouts: Conditionals
Use this handout to understand the different types of conditional ("if") clauses which appear in the English language and the verb tenses which should be used with each type of conditional. The examples are very clear in this explanation...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Chinatown Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a 2nd grade unit based on the story Chinatown by William Low from the Harcourt Trophies series. There are several lessons on the suffixes -er and -est, linking verbs has, have, and had, and...
Read Works
Read Works: A Bit About Buttons
[Free Registration/Login Required] This reading passage is all about buttons including where they came from. uses for buttons, and fun facts about buttons. It is followed by comprehension questions based on Common Core standards.