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Learning Numbers In Chinese
Students study how to say the numbers 0-10 in Chinese and say the number of different objects and telephone numbers.
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Man and Wife
Students play a role-play game to answer questions about their classmates, to see how well they know each other.
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Integrating Target Structures
Students read short essays on the characteristics of several cities. They discuss these characteristics focusing on the use of the passive and active voice in past tenses.
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Reading Lesson Plan
Learners use and recognize new vocabularies of the weather and a simple writing structure --Today is __________.
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Creating A Family Tree
Fourth graders explore their ancestral background while they experience genealogy.
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Meditation on the A30
Students, in groups, race to produce words that rhyme with the word given to them. They are read a poem and focus on the theme of the poem.
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Drugs
Students participate in various activities dealing with prescription drug bottle vocabulary and modals. They discuss legal and illegal drugs, complete a vocabulary worksheet, and write sentences using the correct form of modals.
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The Internet Dilemma
Students match the beginning and ending of sentences and then order them to make a story. They make their own stories. The stories describe the dangers of the Internet and Internet safety.
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Adopt Ivan
Learners brainstorm and discuss what students need to grow up healthy and happy. They read about families and situations where learners are not in healthy and happy situations, and the importance of adoption.
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The Lost Property Office
Learners participate in a role-play activity to practice literacy skills. They work in pairs to describe an item they have lost, and the partner asks description questions to help locate the lost item.
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Liberation of the Garden Gnomes
Students read a lighthearted story about the controversial Garden Gnome Liberation Front. They debate the public's right to own garden gnomes. Personal - to lighten up the classroom a bit with a somewhat
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Film Interview
Students interview each other about their film preferences, and practice using adjectives to describe emotions and -ed and -ing forms.
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Integrated Skills and Speaking
Students work in pairs to decode a message that uses character adjectives vocabulary and counting skills. They design an "ideal friend" by listing their top five desired character traits.
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Personality Assessment
Young scholars participate in an activity about personality perceptions. They take a personality survey for themselves. Then students take the same survey with their impressions about their partner, and discuss their findings.
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Lateral Thinking Stories
Students listen to a series of entertaining stories that do not include the ending. They generate yes/no questions and analyze the answers to guess at the ending of the story.
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Speaking Skills - Asking Questions
Students focuses on the question form and helping students gain skill while switching tenses in the question form. They improve speaking confidence when using quesion forms.
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Indus Valley Civilization
Pupils explore the history and geographic background of the Indus Valley. Student research the area and create a travel brochure based on the information.
PBS
Colorin Colorado: Technology and English Language Learners
Resources and articles aimed at helping teachers use technology with English language learners.
Other
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...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: English Language Learners
Learn about the most effective ways to teach ELL students (or ESL students), how to create a welcoming classroom, and ways to promote family involvement.
Other
Hong Kong Education City: English Campus
English Campus is an excellent site for Chinese speakers learning English. It includes seven channels - Watch, Read, Practice, Play, Create, Meet, and a Teachers' Corner. Learn by playing word and grammar games, watching movies and...
Brown University
Brown University: Teaching Diverse Learners
Resource is dedicated to enhancing the capacity of teachers to work effectively and equitably with English language learners (ELL). This Web site provides access to publications, educational materials, and the work of experts in the field.
Other
Sounds of English
A comprehensive site on English pronunciation for English language learners and their teachers. It offers explanations and activities for pronunciation of specific sounds, of letter combinations, of word stresses, and of phrasal words....
Everything ESL
Everything esl.net: Seven Teaching Strategies for Teaching El Ls
Article that outlines seven teaching strategies for classroom teachers to use when instructing English language learners.