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Safety Scenarios
Learners discuss the various safety procedures and signs keeping them safe at work. In groups, students review several safety scenarios and present their suggests for a safe environment to the group. Learners practice using...
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Schedule Changing Prepositions
Learners discuss the appropriate and inappropriate reasons for requesting a schedule change at work. They create scripts for requesting a change that uses appropriate prepositions and prepositional phrases. Students practice using...
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Filing A Conusmer Complaint
High schoolers discuss what makes good service and poor servies. They brainstorm ways to file a complaint when they receive poor service. Students work in pairs to practice making a consumer complaint verbally and in writing. This...
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Introducing...Me
High schoolers practice rephrasing techniques to ask and answer questions in order to maintain conversational exchanges. Students create scripts about themselves to use as conversation starters. This lesson plan is intended for high...
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Hello, How Do You Do?
Students 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 writing...
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Take A Message
High schoolers practice accurate note taking skills, recording only pertinent information. Using proper grammar and useage, they record accurate phone messages. This lesson is intended for students acquiring English.
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Science Experiments with Eggs
ESL students experiment with eggs to learn the science concepts and science process language.
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A Lesson about Animals for ESL Students: Use or Abuse?
Students discuss animal care using proper phrases of agreement and objection. They role play and make presentations on their animal studies.
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Forests, Deserts, & Grasslands
Third graders complete activities to become familiar with the content and vocabulary related to biomes and ecosystems in order to mainstream into the classroom.
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Civic Education
Students in an adult ESL class are introduced to the political discourse in the United States government. As a class, they develop their own definitions of democracy. In groups, they read an article and present their analysis of the...
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New Year Celebrations in China (Chun Jie)
Fifth graders compare and contrast the traditions and customs of the holiday with those in Korea and Japan. They express themselves with few non-native grammatical errors in speaking and writing; develop and use background...
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Thirteen Original Colonies
Learners use maps, the Internet, graphic organizers and discussion to explore the history of the Middle American Colonies. They consider how the colonies were founded and the ideas of religious freedom and self-government they embodied.
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Let's Go Shopping
Students review and identify common vocabulary related to food, shopping, and courtesy expressions. Students then practice English language skills by shopping in classroom market while playing roles of shoppers and store personnel.
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Poetry Reading for ELL Beginners
Bring the imagery of the desert to your classroom with this ELL lesson plan. After reading Madeleine Dunphy’s Here in the Southwestern Desert, learners complete a graphic organizer about the features and images of the poem. The...
Emergency & Community Health Outreach
Breast Cancer: Prevent, Detect, Treat
Odds are, most of the members of your class know someone who has been affected by breast cancer. Teach them more about prevention through healthy lifestyles, detection with self-testing and mammograms, and the most effective treatments...
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Science Experiment With Eggs
Students participate in four scientific experiments with eggs. They discuss egg vocabulary, and examine the eggs' attributes through the experiments. They focus on making educated guesses.
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Speaking and Listening Lesson Based on Ordering Food in a Restaurant
Learners practice the skill of ordering food in a restaurant. After a lecture/demo, students work in pairs. Utilizing a worksheet imbedded in this plan, they gain practice in the skill of ordering food from a menu.
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Business Lesson Describing Trends
Students practice their skills using business English. After a lecture/demo, students interpret economic graphs which are imbedded in this instructional activity. Then, they create their own graphs and describe them to the class.
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Using Southeast Asian Folktales to Teach Reading and Writing
Students use maps to locate the countries of Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia. In groups, they compare and contrast the three countries in regard to their culture, morals and values. They read various examples of folktales and write their...
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TPR is a Valuable Tool!
Students, at the beginning ESL proficiency level, participate in Total Physical Response activities in order to learn the present continuous and past tense, sentence structure and word order in English.
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Please Press One For More Options
Students practice using automated phone answering systems. They discuss the many ways automated phone systems are used when trying to request information. Students role play calling service companies and using automated systems. This...
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Calling in Sick
Learners create a dialog for calling in sick to work. Dialogs must be created for single and multiple absences. Working with a partner, students practice their dialogs. This lesson is designed for learners acquiring English.
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Under The Doctors Advice
Students discuss the importance of specifically following medical instructions. They simulate a conversation between a pharmasist and a patient. Students compare and contrast medical and natural remedies. This lesson is intended for...