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Managing Stress: Living without Stress Overload
Students explore a three hour set of readings, discussion questions an web links to gain tools to identify, alleviate and prevent stress in their lives. They work to develop a life-style that is, to a large extent, stress-free.
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The Sequential Teaching of Writing Skills at Grade Eight
Eighth graders are introduced to the techniques to write properly. As a class, they practice writing complete sentences and discover how to avoid run-on sentences. In groups, they review action and state of being verbs and practice...
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Troublesome Word Pairs
Students examine how to know the difference between the words in the troublesome word pairs and identify the words in sentences. They then write their own sentences using the correct word from the word pairs.
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Writing A Mission Statement: Part Two
Student's identify one's values. They go over definition and function of mission statements. Students are explained the first steps in identifying one's values. They discuss the etymology of the word "values." Students pair up and...
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Create Your Own Sporting Event
Students use their imagination and language skills to create and describe their own sporting event. In this sporting event instructional activity, students brainstorm sports related vocabulary and identify their parts of speech. Students...
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Infinitives
In this grammar activity, 9th graders focus on the usage of infinitives. Students read 25 sentences and identify and underline the infinitves in each.
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Grammar Quest
Young scholars participate in an activity that helps them to explain parts of speech and distinguish between them. They also use different locomotor skills in a variety of ways.
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Intro to Parts of Speech
Students define eight parts of speech, classify words as specific parts of speech, describe their function, and explain how parts of speech help us to communicate more clearly.
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Working with Principal Parts: Chapter 1
In this Latin vocabulary worksheet, students select the Latin version of five verb phrases. Students are presented with the English version of a phrase and four possibilities of Latin translations.
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Don't Forget to Say Thanks
Students practice descriptive writing in a thank-you note format. In this descriptive writing activity, students read the example letter and analyze the corrections in the letter. Students read the example thank you notes and focus on...
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BBC Learning English, Speaking (Clarifying Meaning)
In this verbal comprehension learning exercise, students identify possible reasons for poor inter-personal communication and learn multiple phrases to use for clarification in a conversation.
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Writing Effective Summaries
Drafting a strong first sentence for a summary is an important step. Writers can use the formula presented on this handout to get started. The resource lists three steps to put together a strong topic sentence, as well as tips and hints...
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December 5
In this role-playing 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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Listening Comprehension - Newspaper Articles
Students demonstrate listening comprehension skills. They listen to an audio reading of two newspaper articles, identify verbs, answer discussion questions, and complete a cloze activity.
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ESOL Obtain Employment
Students discuss the items needed to be prepared for a job interview. They generate a list of action verbs needed to prepare a resume of their own. They construct a cover letter and match it to an ad in the newspaper.
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Adverbs - 6 Foolproof Steps
Young scholars review rules of grammar, specifically those that help find adverbs in a sentence. They practice finding the adverbs in a worksheet of sample sentences.
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Weather Emergency Safety
Students identify different types of weather emergencies that may happen during the seasons. They list the steps involved when taking cover and fleeing dangerous weather patters. A comprehensive list of service agencies that can...
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Postcards to the Troops
Pupils write postcards to the troops in Iraq. After listening to letters written by troops in Iraq, students discuss ways the troops are helping America and how they should show their support. Pupils use a postcard template and include a...
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ESOL Career Advancement
Students identify the importance of job evaluations for promotions and retention. Students play the game Round Robin to become familiar with the vocabulary, definitions, sentence structure and pronunciation.
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Spanish Politics
Students identify Spanish and other leaders, political parties, and ideas on a political continuum as a class. They verbally answer questions demonstrating comprehension of the text. Students summarize in writing in Spanish the main...
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Understanding Predicates
High schoolers identify predicates in a sentence. In this grammar activity, students highlight the subject and predicate in various sentences. High schoolers examine the various types of predicates and practice identifying them in a...
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REPASO2
In this ESL action words instructional activity, students analyze 7 pictures that depict people doing things. Students match the pictures to the verbs that describe them. The meaning of the page title is not clear.
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLANS--Obtaining Employment
Students, after reviewing an extensive vocabulary list of terms on the board and a multitude of other resources, examine/identify entry level jobs/workplaces of various occupations to find one that suites each one the best.
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Journeys
Pupils write a story using their journey to school as the setting. In groups, they discuss their experiences and browse through books to get ideas for their story. They practice using a thesaurus to find new verbs or adjectives they...