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Words In The News
A complete resource from BBC World Service provides informational text for English or ESL classes to teach vocabulary, grammar, and reading skills. Learners participate in small group work, whole class discussions, and role-plays to...
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Teaching Social Studies in English
Case studies, an examination of images, and readings of passages from the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child are used to spark conversations in ESL/ELD social studies classes about this highly-charged topic. Using a variety of...
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Compare and Contrast Night to Life is Beautiful
After reading Elie Wiesel's Night, watching the movie Life is Beautiful, and researching World War II, class members write a comparison essay on the book and film. This includes a prior knowledge activity, discussion in whole and small...
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Tag Questions - With Assorted Verbs
If they are intrinsically motivated, your learners complete a 10-question matching online interactive quiz. They match sentences with the tag questions that go with them. They don't need to try on their own before the answers are...
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International Children's Book Day
Celebrate International Children's Book Day using this resource. Learners complete activities, such as reading a passage, sequencing, unscrambling sentences, writing questions, conducting surveys, and writing. Students complete twelve...
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ESL Lesson Plan
Students listen to a story and comprehend, in a manner of writing down the story sentence by sentence, possibly in the exact words. They read their own writings to others and make them understand.
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Body Parts Trace and Read
In this ESL body parts worksheet, students enhance their vocabularies by first tracing, then printing, and finally writing the body part vocabulary words on the lines.
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ESL Vocabulary Lesson Plan - Opposites for Beginners
Young scholars work on vocabulary lesson plans.
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House Plan
In this ESL activity, students will learn house related vocabulary and create sentences about how they would arrange furniture in a home. Sample lesson ideas are included.
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Let it Snow!
Students participate in various activities in the snow to determine how snow affects our lives, what we wear in the snow, and what activities we can enjoy in the snow. Lesson includes many resource links.
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Computer Language Laboratory First Lesson
Students in the English Language Learners classroom utilize the computer for a variety of review activities. The teacher uses e-mail to send students D.O.L. (Daily Oral Language) sentences, a quote or passage of interest, or a website...
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What's Your Emergency?
Pupils identify different medical emergencies they may encounter. As a class, they discuss ways in which they can deal with different medical emergencies. Students practice responding to medical emergencies by writing a brief paragraph...
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ESL - Thematic Unit Plan
Students read a variety of poetry books together in small groups. They examine Haiku poetry and share their favorites. They write their own Haiku either individually in a pair. They read and discuss limericks and work on writing their own.
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ESL Class Identity
Students work together to identify and research the country and culture of origin for each member of a group in a new ESL class. They organize the researched information in a poster and present their findings to the class.
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Grocery Shopping
Students build a functional vocabulary. In this ESL lesson, students watch a video that incorporates a lesson using "do" and "does" while grocery shopping. Students engage in a listening exercise where they listen for specific answers...
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ESL Vocabulary and Writing: Fruit
In these English Language vocabulary and writing worksheets, students use the pictures of the fruit to identify the fruit vocabulary words and then write sentences about each word.
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ESL Vocabulary Trace and Read: Fruit
In these English Language vocabulary worksheets, students trace the words for each fruit word, write the words on the lines, and then use the pictures to help them identify each vocabulary word.
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ESL Vocabulary: Family
In these English Language vocabulary worksheets, learners connect the dots from the pictures about family to their matching terms. Students then write the terms on the lines and find the missing letters to complete the family terms.
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ESL Connect the Dots: Fruit
In this English Language vocabulary activity, students connect the dots from the fruit images to the words that match. Students then trace and find the missing letters to help them correctly spell each word.
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ESL Vocabulary Word Search: School
In these English Language word search worksheets, students complete the six different word searches to help them learn vocabulary words about school.
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ESL Vocabulary Crossword: Food
In this English Language crossword worksheet, students use the pictures to identify the specific type of food and then complete the crossword puzzle.
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Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree
Young scholars dictate a story to the teacher. They practice key vocabulary. They be exposed to the language experience approach to writing. They watch a video as a listening exercise.
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Guess What Board Game
Students play the game "Guess What" to review using a relative clause. In this ESL lesson, students listen to the teacher describe something using the relative clause and then guess what that thing is or the students must define...
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Phonics Monsters Rummy!
Students play the game Phonics Rummy and practice making words from phonics monster cards. In this ESL lesson, students respond to icons. Students also respond to pictures and words while reading phrases that provide visual cues.