Students practice speaking and using adjectives to describe someone's character. They also revise question formation structures.

Learners work together as a class to solve a sodoku math puzzle.

Students write a cartoon story as a whole class, then in small groups and for homework as individuals. They practice asking and answering questions about location and time sequences.

Students participate in a collaborative story writing activity. In small groups, students each write three sentences, adding on to the story when it is their turn, then peer-editing the story and presenting it to the class.

Students participate in a mingling speaking activity. They write a question for each person in the class on separate worksheets, then speak to everyone in the class to find out as much information as possible about each other.

Students read an imagined profile about themselves written by a new teacher. They find definitions for words they do not explain and then explain to partners what is or isn't correct about their profiles.

Young scholars read poetry about dreams and determine the different types of dreams people have, such as the images in sleep, or as goals.

Pupils role play ordering a pizza focusing on requests and vocabulary including numbers, money and food. They brainstorm food items and create the menu. Using virtual money, they order and fill out a spending worksheet.

Students brainstorm and practice using vocabulary about love and marriage using invented stories or personal accounts. They give and ask for advice and create a story with a partner.

Students work in pairs to design a Venn diagram of their likes and dislikes. They use the diagram to generate sentences that include statements of disagreement and agreement.

Students review vocabulary by answering questions about an image, drawing the picture and taking notes. They compare their pictures and describe the differences.

Learners discuss favorite recipes from their home countries and help each other to generate the correct sequencing and grammar for the recipe. They write out the recipe using imperative and passive structures.

Pupils are given an obscure topic and told to generate six related questions they think a reader might be interested in knowing. They switch papers and answer each other's questions as 'fraud' experts in their best technical writing style.

Students browse through and take notes from the "How Stuff Works" website and choose a topic to describe in writing. They draft a summary of the text and present their writing for feedback. They revise their writing based on feedback given.

Students read short excerpts of material and are challenged to write a coherent summary of seventy words. They monitor their work for correct word limits and present their summaries to the class.

Pupils prepare for the FCE exam by reviewing grammar problems and questions posed on previous assessments.

Learners review notes and exercises to prepare to write articles for the CAE and CPE exams.

Young scholars examine a paragraph on the topic of Spam to highlight and analyze some of the most common mistakes made by exam candidates. They fill in the blanks, identify parts of speech and discuss multiple forms of several words.

Students arrange their chairs into two circles - a smaller inner circle and a larger outer circle. They interview each other using a set of questions commonly found on speaking exams.

Fourth graders demonstrate reading and following multi-step directions. They discuss the importance of following directions when assembling something or when following map directions, then independently read through a list of...

Students find a partner and use a scooter with a rope tied to it. There are two hula hoops, one with balls in it and one with nothing in it with which the studentsl have to get all the balls from one hoop to the other hoop. One student...

Students match colors and sizes, and manipulate the plastic eggs to put them together. They stand along the perimeter of the gym with a partner. Students have an Easter basket as a pair. They are given a signal, the first person of each...

Students identify the cultural clues found within art forms by producing a work of art based on their personal experiences and create a work of art about themself. They recognize how technical elements affect art and how to implement...

Fifth graders collect and organize data from writing samples, use fractions and decimals to describe the experimental data, and use the experimental results to make predictions about the frequency of letter usage in the English language.