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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Level 2--Time and Money
Students, while reviewing an extensive list of vocabulary terms, explore how to convert dates to numeric form with correct pronunciation. In pairs, after modeling of examples, they convert several dates to numbers.
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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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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLANS--Level 2--Obtaining Employment
Students, while extensively reviewing the vocabulary list on the board, identify/examine/produce the proper forms of identification in preparing to obtain employment in the United States.
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Analysis of the Tuck Everlasting and The Birchbark House Text Exemplars
Looking to introduce some text-based questions into your ELA lessons? Practice the kinds of skills the Common Core demands with the seven text-based questions and the essay prompt provided here. Designed to be a three-day lesson, day one...
New York State Education Department
TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 10
How have educational standards evolved? Educators of adults examine expectations in the 10th workshop out of 15 to better determine how standards have grown. Participants respond to a variety of sample questions to determine how they...
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Alfonso Ball
Joey Alphonso made up this game, which is played using a gator skin ball and a tennis racket on a basketball court. The simple rules and strategy of the game are explained. This is a high-scoring, run around activity. Everyone can...
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The Journey of the Spirit
Students discuss Scholastic Art Magazine issue on 'Artists Today' . They participate in a class discussion & watch a demonstration on the use of 'found objects' and ordinary materials (i.e. paper towels, leaves) to create surface...
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Level 3--Obtaining Employment
Students examine and view a variety of employment facts/legalities that comes with employment in the United States including social security, income tax deductions and W-4 forms, just to mention a few.
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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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Personal Indentification For Travel
Students identify and describe the various documents they will need when traveling in the United Stans. They complete forms needed to acquire documentation needed for travel. Students write a description of a travel experience outside...
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Who Is Responsible For Repairs?
Students discuss household problems that may be eligible for repair by their landlord. As a class, students discuss the portions of their lease that require their landlord to repair damages and which damages they may be responsible for...
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Factors To Consider When Looking For Housing
Students discuss their housing options and factors which affect housing costs. Using the newspaper as a resource, students compare and contrast the prices of housing options. Working with partners, students compare and contrast their...
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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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Asking For Help At Local Agencies
Students identify and explore the ways in which businesses, government, and community organizations provided helpful information. A list of local agencies is comprised and students list questions which are appropriate to ask at these...
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That Is Not My Opinion!
Being an informed citizen requires distinguishing fact from opinion and understanding persuasion methods. Secondary learners evaluate newspaper editorials. They read opinion pieces, identify the writer's purpose and position on an issue,...
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ESOL Telephone Communication
Students discuss the use and convenience of public and cellular phones and how to use them. They compare and contrast uses, importance and availability of public, cellular phones and pagers in the student's native country.
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Consumer Education, ESOL
Students discuss types of housing, cost, location and terminology used in classified ads. They write a paragraph describing their image of the ideal home then exchange papers and edit each other's work.
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ESOL Basic numbers and SHapes
Students review then recognize the letters A-Z both uppercase and lowercase and the numbers 0-100. They practice letters orally then play a letter writing game and number game as a class.
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ESOL Government and Community Resources
Students view pictures of government official and identify each by name and
title. They compare these U. S. officials with those in the students' native
countries then write a sentence about each of the officials.
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ESOL Personal Information
Students observe examples of personal information and the reading and answering of related questions. They practice listening to personal questions and giving the appropriate response.
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ESOL School Map Identification
Students review a school map and identify areas along with vocabulary words. They label a map as a class then create corresponding flash cards and practice new vocabulary flash cards in pairs.
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Career Advancement ESOL
Students discuss the word "promotion" and brainstorm ideas to create a class list on job promotion requirements. They work in groups to play a game and use sentences using the words "since" and " ago."
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ESOL Health and Nurtition
Students brainstorm a list of vocabulary necessary to request a doctor's appointment and the importance of having and keeping an appointment to see a doctor. They work with partners and role play patient requesting an appointment...
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ESOL Maintaining Employment
Students discuss qualities of a good employee and view a Venn diagram that shows qualities of employee and employer. They review new vocabulary then role play teacher directed scenarios.