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Animal Adventures
Students in an ESL classroom practice their listening and speaking skills. As a class, they are read a story and are asked repeatedly what, why, where, when and next to predict was is going to happen. They can use this technique for any...
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Christmas: Conversation
In this Christmas conversation worksheet, students read and discuss fourteen key questions regarding Christmas and past Christmas celebrations. The conversation starters could also be used as writing prompts.
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What Happened on Pa Lia's First Day?
Students discuss feelings about their first day in a new school and the difficulties of making new friends. They listen to a story about a girl who has moved to a new school, then compare their situation to hers. Nice lesson!
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Pumpkin Carving for K-2 Students
Students engage in a variety of pumpkin activities. This lesson is especially rich for ESL students, who probably have little experience with this holiday and custom.
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Do You Have a GSOH?
In this humor worksheet, students, with a partner, read and discuss thirteen questions associated with having a good sense of humor and making fun of others.
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Morning Routines
Morning routines are the subject of this series of activities designed for language learners. Kids practice crafting questions and responses using the provided morning routine targeted vocabulary words.
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Adverbs
Run quickly. Walk slowly. Jump high. As part of their study of English parts of speech, language learners engage in a series of activities designed to introduce them to the descriptive power of adverbs.
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Rooms of a House
Language learners create and label the rooms in a house and then add and label images of objects that may be found in each room.
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Classroom Stationery
What's in the bag? Learn about classroom items, such as pens, glue, pencils, and books, with a series of fun activities. Kids sing and play games to practice their new vocabulary words.
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Actions - Present Continuous
What are you doing? Why, studying the present continuous tense, of course. Language learners engage in activities and exercises that provide them with practice crafting and answering questions using the present continuous tense.
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Prepositions of Location
Over, under, beside. Language learners practice using prepositions of location to answer the question, "Where is . . ."
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Halloween
Build vocabulary and get in the Halloween sprit with a collection of festive activities! Here, scholars take part in a holiday celebration, unearth the unknown in mystery feel-boxes, and create monster masks out of paper plates.
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Pronunciation: Practicing Stress and Intonation
Students improved pronunciation by focusing on the stress-time nature of spoken English.
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Describing Vocabulary for Cinema, Movies, and Stars
Middle schoolers name their favorite actors and actresses, and then use adjectives to describe them. They go through a list of actors and actresses and discuss the adjectives they used to decribe them. As an extension, they can write...
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Computer Security Day
In this computer security day instructional activity, students match phrases, fill in the blanks, choose the correct words, unscramble words and sentences, write discussion questions and conduct a survey.
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Then and Now
Students explain the differences and time relationships between the past simple, present perfect (continuous) and present simple tenses when speaking about the past and present. They use a graphic organizer before speaking.
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My Likes And Dislikes
Pupils practice conversational conventions when expressing their likes and dislikes, with a partner. Individually, they write a paragraph explaing a tiem when they felt acceptance or rejection.
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Literacy: The Puerto Rican Papers
Students in an ESL classroom are introduced to new vocabulary before reading a story in their native language. In groups, they discuss how the tradition of writing stories down became a tradition and answer comprehension questions. To...
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My Living Arrangements
Students identify various housing options, focusing on rental vs. purchase and short vs. long term. With a partner, students discuss their housing situation. Once their discussion is complete, students write a brief paragraph weighing...
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Day and Night Definition Informational Page
In this day and night worksheet, students read an explanation of when daytime begins and end. They read that night-time is from sunset to sunrise. They read the definitions of AM and PM.
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"Desiderata"
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read the short story "Desiderata" and possibly try to rewrite the short story in their own words.
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Girl Talk: Using And and But
In this grammar worksheet, 6th graders read conversations between teenage girls and fill in the blanks with the words and or but to complete the sentences. Students fill in 8 blanks.
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Housework: Make vs. Do
In this verb usage worksheet, students read the sentences and determine which form of make or do best completes each sentence. Students complete 8 sentences for the online activity.
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Teaching the Written Word to Those Whose Words are Limited
Get your learners' pens moving by emptying their thoughts onto the page.