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Say What?
Students explore the literal and figurative meanings of twenty-nine phrases and sayings. This unit of nine lessons integrates written expression and convention to demonstrate the value of idioms to the language.
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ESL What Do We Like Doing? Using the Correct Word
In this ESL what do we like doing sentence completion worksheet, students choose the correct word, from a given pair, to complete each of 8 sentences. They rewrite the sentence correctly on the line beneath the given sentences.
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Proper and Common Nouns
In this grammar worksheet, 3rd graders complete 12 multiple choice questions in which they find the noun in each group of three words. They write the common or proper noun on the blank line.
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Total English Intermediate: Very Useful Idioms
In this intermediate idioms activity, students practice idioms as they complete a graphic organizer by interviewing classmates and write a paragraph based on the notes from the graphic organizer.
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Bee Story
Students consider the implications of the disappearing bee population. In this bee lesson, students read several new stories regarding the bee population and respond to the provided discussion questions.
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English Exercises: Past Simple Tense
In this online interactive English worksheet, learners respond to 25 fill in the blank questions that require them to select "have" or "has" to finish each of the sentences. Students may submit their answers to be...
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Irregular Verbs: Learn - Meet
In this irregular verbs worksheet, students write verbs in the past tense, participle tense, and fill them into blanks in sentences. Students complete 3 activities.
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Kin Bee
For this possessive nouns worksheet, students pick cards with possessive nouns on them and come up with complete sentences to show family relationships. Players get points for each correct sentence.
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Scavenger Hunt for Adjective Images
Young scholars work in groups to create silent videos or still images that define or represent adjectives. They share their creations with the other groups in class to see if they can determine the adjective their project represented.
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Food Match Sheet
In this types of food worksheet, learners view ten pictures of various types of food and then match each picture to their actual name on the right.
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Using Pronouns Correctly
In this pronoun usage worksheet, learners correct sentences by eliminating the inappropriate use of the pronoun you. The students then correct the sentences by adding either a third-person pronoun or a suitable noun to replace the...
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Imperatives
In this imperative verb worksheet, students select the correct imperative phrase to complete the given sentence using context clues to determine the meaning.
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Discovering Adjectives
Students work in groups to discover and practice using adjectives. They use food items for the activity and compete with other groups on who can have the most adjectives. They may use other materials in the room as well.
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Collocations-Verbs
In this adverb worksheet, learners select from a list of twelve adverbs to complete the sentences. Each sentence has one missing word. This worksheet is intended to be used with upper-intermediate English language learners.
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Total English Advanced: Sorting Out Phrasal Verbs
In this phrasal verbs learning exercise, students practice their grammar skills as they unscramble the 10 groups of words in order to create complete sentences. Students also match 5 phrasal verbs to their definitions.
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Interviewing a Fairy Tale Character
Students demonstrate question and answer/interviewing skills. They brainstorm questions they would like to ask each other and then interview their partner who will be a fairy tale character. Interviews will be filmed with a video camera.
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REEL POLITICS: HOW HOLLYWOOD EXERCISES ITS FREEDOM OF SPEECH
Students list the five best films of the year, in their opinion; brainstorm a list of criteria for a "good" film. They compare their own lists with the nominees in this year's Academy Awards; consider patterns in Academy Award winners of...
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Principal Parts of the Verb
For this recognizing the three principal parts of verbs worksheet, students complete the chart by reading the column of present tense verbs and filling in the columns with past and past participle forms of those verbs. Students write 18...
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It's Greek to Me!
Students explore Greek Mythology. In this Greek Mythology unit, students read myths, pantomime vocabulary words, practice research skills, create city-states, and demonstrate knowledge of ratios and proportions. This unit includes many...
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Oral Presentation
Practice public speaking in this oral presentation lesson plan. Middle schoolers list the characteristics of a powerful speaker. They watch a video of two speakers, compare them and discuss the qualities of a good speech. Afterwards,...
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Author's Influence Project
Eleventh graders use technology as a tool to research authors of literature being studied. Then students use a presentation program to make final presentations. This lesson allows them to create an understanding of the context related to...
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Develop a Paragraph
Need a recipe for a paragraph? Young writers cook up the opening paragraph for a speech on food preparation. They prepare by reading the directions and cutting out the provided sentence strips. Then, they mix up the strips and paste the...
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ELA.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.4
Still working on deciphering the Common Core standards? Let this resource help you out with the fourth speaking and listening standard! After a brief explanation of the standard, the resource details two example activities and provides...
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"The Three Billy Goats Gruff:" Retelling the Story
Youngsters retell the story of The Three Billy Goats Gruff. They write a sentence for speech bubbles for a character in the story, identify the phrases that can be used for retelling a story, and in small groups write a sentence for the...