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Making Questions
Students create questions for the answers provided. This learning exercise gives ESL students a chance to practice making questions.
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The Family Lesson Plan: French Grammar
Qui est Thomas? Oú est-it? Beginning French speakers review the words qui, oú, and comment to form questions. They practice writing and asking questions, and the final exercise has them match the questions with their answers. Help your...
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Questions...?
In this ELL grammar instructional activity, students ask a different classmate each of 9 questions while writing down their answers. They choose three of six time expressions and tell a classmate where they were. There are teachers'...
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Let's Shop - Asking for Things in Shops!
In this ELL oral communication learning exercise, students complete a quick check on asking for things in a shop. They fill a gift list for 6 family members, and make a store guide. Teacher guide included.
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Interview with a Famous Athlete
Teach your learners how to conduct an interview. English learners will learn the language patterns behind asking questions and creating answers through sentence frames and pictures though the topic of famous athletes.
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Ask Personal Questions-- Worksheet 1
In this oral language worksheet, students learn to ask and answer personal questions. Using this list of 20 questions, students collaborate with partners who have the male or female profile pages (on another page). One student asks a...
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Special Friends: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 9)
Enhance language proficiency with a Special Friends themed English language development unit. Each lesson follows a listen, speak, move, and/or look routine that is guaranteed to get your scholars discussing topics such as animal...
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Nature: Friend and Foe: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 6)
If readers don't understand key portions of a text, it may seem more like a foe than a friend. The second resource in a series of three ESL lessons designed to accompany the texts in Nature: Friend or Foe makes the texts easier to...
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Cinco De Mayo: ELD Reading and Language-Building
A brief passage about the Mexican holiday Cinco de Mayo is accompanied by an array of language activities for ELD: cloze exercise, phrase matching, word jumble, multiple choice, sequencing, interview, group presentation, fluency writing,...
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Missing Letters: -oat, -ell, and -all
Beginning readers must solve for the missing letter in these spelling questions. There are three pairs of rhyming words here, each without an initial letter. They complete the word, and for the second box, draw a picture. The alphabet is...
K12 Reader
Who Fell into the Well?
Read this short poem to reinforce understanding of -ell words, like fell and well. Learners also respond to three reading comprehension questions, which are include right on the page.
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Can I Have a Piece of Cake?
In this ELL, conversation worksheet, students read a conversation between 2 people where a child is hungry and asks for a piece of cake and an adult responds. Students complete 7 more conversations where they state something they need...
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School-Home Links elling, self-to-text connections, writing lists, author
Engage families in at-home practice using this 100-page worksheet packet for elementary school English Language Arts practice. Each worksheet briefly explains the objective to parents so they can guide their child through the activity....
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ESL: What's the Weather Like?
Beginning English learners practice describing the weather with help from eight picture clues. Questions are phrased like "How's the weather?" and "What's the weather like?" Tinker with the formatting to make it all fit on one page...
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Beginning Forming Questions - "Why"
In this ELL, forming why questions worksheet, students complete 8 short answer questions where they change 8 sentences into questions that ask why.
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Beginning Forming Questions - "Where"
In this forming where questions worksheet, students complete 8 fill in the blank questions where they change a given phrase into a question that asks where.
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ESL: Classmates Survey
Get your beginning English Learners moving with this class survey. They ask each other the 8 questions provided to find out "How many of your classmates..." Good practice for asking questions that start with"Do you..." including "make...
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Cooking in Britain Today
Learners explore British cooking vocabulary. In this ELL vocabulary lesson, students identify and describe various foods, match foods with adjectives, discuss their opinions about British cuisine, then read food critic reviews. Four...
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Total English: ELL Activity
In this ELL worksheet, students Correct mistakes in questions, fill in a chart about friends and family members, and share information with a partner. Includes teacher instructions.
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Total English: ELL Activity 5
In this ELL worksheet, students complete sentences, make sentences into "negative" sentences, and write five places they would want to visit in a new town. Students work with a partner to ask and answer questions. Includes teacher notes.
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ELL/ESL Reading Selection- Medical Appointment
In this ELL/ESL reading and reasoning worksheet, students read a short selection about person who needs to make a medical appointment. They answer 5 true or false questions, and write an essay telling how the character can make it to his...
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Predictions Survey
Help English learners make predictions using appropriate language through a survey. Each learner will ask a series of questions to 5 different students and then create a short report on their findings. Modifications: Add your own series...
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What's Your Favorite Food?
Advanced beginner to intermediate ESL level learners, use English to communicate in social settings by conducting a survey. They ask questions to develop new vocabulary and build communication skills.
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Total English: ELL Pre-Intermediate Language Activity
In this ELL language worksheet, students answer questions using the "present continuous," then take turns asking and answering the questions of one another. Next, students fill in the gaps in dialogue with phrases from a word box....