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Bank Role Play

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students practice making basic bank transactions while role-playing specific examples of etiquette and manners. In this banking role play for ESL students lesson, students go to a bank to deposit money. Students also withdraw money, cash...
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ESL English Grammar Lesson: The Royal Wedding

For Teachers 9th
Have your ESL learners practice their written and oral English grammar skills, with this highly engaging ESL Lesson. Budding grammarians mingle across the room discovering what they each know about the Royal Wedding between Kate and...
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Test Your Speaking and Listening Skills: Role Play-Shopping: ESL

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this ESL role playing worksheet, students role play taking merchandise back to a store. Students read 9 lines of script, a conversation between 2 students.
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Consumer Complaint Menu Role-play

For Students 4th - 10th
In this role play activity, students participate in a role play about a consumer complaint in a restaurant. Students complete 5 steps in the role play.
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Lost Person Role-play

For Students 2nd - 6th
In this role play worksheet, students assume the role of a private detective and a customer trying to find a missing person. Students work with 1 partner.
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ESL: What's the Weather Like?

For Students 3rd - 9th
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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December 5

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this role-playing instructional activity, students view and discuss what seven people are doing in seven pictures. Students then answer what each person is doing by answering seven multiple choice questions.
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Family Advice

For Students 5th - 8th
In this ESL activity worksheet, students role play a family life situation with another classmate as they use the provided words and phrases.
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Have You Seen Jill? A Business ESL Role-play

For Teachers 5th - Higher Ed
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 conversation to...
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Mt Perfect Place

For Students 4th - 8th
For this ESL activity worksheet, students role play a conversation between an interviewer and another person as they use the questions provided on this worksheet.
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Making Polite Conversation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars become familiar with the polite forms of conversation that are used in this country. They role play making requests using polite forms. Students write an appropriate thank you not to a host or hostess. This lesson plan...
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ESL: Classmates Survey

For Students 6th - 9th
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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ESL: Practice Using Present Progressive Tense

For Students 4th - 7th
Small, cartoonish pictures of people expressing emotions and actions (blowing his nose, holding her head and frowning, dancing, smiling) provide the basis for writers to describe the feelings and experiences taking place. Help your ESL...
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ESL Mi Familia- Family Identification Worksheet

For Students 5th - 9th
In this Spanish/English family member identification matching learning exercise, students match 7 black and white clip art pictures of family members to their Spanish and English names.
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ESL Family Member Matching Worksheet

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this ESL family member activity, students examine 6 pictures of family members. They match the pictures to the words that name them such as mother, brother, sister, and father.
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ESL Picture/Idiom Matching Worksheet

For Students 7th - Higher Ed
In this ESL picture to idiom matching worksheet, students examine 7 small clip art images before matching them to the idioms they best represent. They work with idioms such as "blood is thicker than water," and "as you make your bed, so...
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ESL: Around Town Matching

For Students 3rd - 9th
Tiny pictures of buildings found around town can be matched with their names in this exercise for beginning English Learners. Indefinite articles are included with vocabulary; nice way to reinforce the "a/an" rule. Pictures are quite...
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ESL: Body Parts Matching

For Students 1st - 11th
Match drawings of basic body parts with their names. A handy tool for teachers of beginning ELLs.
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Down on the Farm: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 8)

For Teachers K Standards
Down on the Farm is the theme of this series of ESL lessons designed to support reading, speaking, and listening skills. Over three weeks, your learners will have the opportunity to sing songs, play guessing games, create masks, role...
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Who Are the People in Your Family?

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this family members worksheet, learners view and study eight pictures in order to choose the appropriate answer to eight multiple choice questions involving naming specific family members.
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ESL- Taking a Classroom Survey

For Students 4th - 6th
In this ESL classroom survey worksheet, students determine which of their classmates do things such as play with yo-yo's, pay attention in class, like camping or go skateboarding. They look at small clip art pictures of the activities to...
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Hello, How Do You Do?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers role play proper greetings and etiquette in formal and informal work and social situations. Students compare and contrast introductions and conversational conventions in their native country and in the United States by...
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In Case of a Medical Emergency

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Studens identify the variety of services available to them at their local medical facilities. In pairs, they role play different conversations that can take place during a medical emergency. Young scholars create a brief description of...
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How Much Is It? A Shopping Lesson Plan for ESL

For Teachers Pre-K - 8th
Students participate in a role-playing activity in order to practice  conversational English used while shopping. For this practical vocabulary lesson, students practice etiquette as it pertains to grocery shopping. Students pretend they...