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Dangerous Road: A Letter of Complaint
Engage your English learners with this resource. To begin, learners describe a map to a partner. After a vocabulary exercise and a jumbled letter activity, pupils are asked to write their own letter. The letter reading and writing...
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Brexit
Brexit. Eurosceptics. Titanorak. Frankenstorm. Check out a neat worksheet and the attached article. It's all about buzzwords and how they are birthed. Whoda thunkit.
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Guessing Game
Students participate in a set of activities designed to help ESL students become familiar with the English language through description, group work, oral reading, and question/answer sessions.
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Happy and Sad
For this English idioms and metaphors worksheet, students discover the metaphorical meaning of words and phrases associated with happiness and sadness. Students work in pairs to role play a conversation about things that make them happy...
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Blankety-Blank: Fill Ins
In this blankety-blank worksheet, 5th graders complete 20 sentences by filling in the blanks with any appropriate word.
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Narrative Tenses
Eighth graders review narrative tenses. In this narrative tenses lesson, 8th graders read a story, answer comprehension questions, and complete a worksheet. This lesson is designed for students who are learning English as a second...
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Mission Impossible: Secret Phrasal Verbs
Learners work together in groups and each member has a task to solve. They role-play the roles of agents in which they have to listen and speak carefully.
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Blackboard Baseball
Fifth graders prepare eight questions about the topic they are studying. In this board baseball review lesson game, questions are rated from easy to difficult and haw many bases students receive. The students are grouped in two teams...
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Drugs
Students explore peer pressure by completing worksheets. In this drug awareness lesson, students define a long list of illegal and prescription drugs while viewing images of each drug. Students complete a word match worksheet and conduct...
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Controlled Narrative Writing
Students examine a short story and add possible adjectives. They re-read the story and add adverbs. They also add other information to make the story interesting.
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Yearbook Interviews
Students apply interview techniques for yearbook articles. They interview the teacher and classmates. They must write questions that are grammatically correct in order to have them answered by the teacher.
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Business writing--Responding to Requests for Information
Learners take part in several guided discussions to determine the organization of the information required in a business letter.
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Vocabulary Challenge
Students participate in a vocabulary challenge in which they are to name objects with the chosen letter.
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Who's Better? Who's Best?
Students practice their reading and speaking skills by expressing their opinions of characters.
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Task-based Grammar Teaching
Students compare a photo of themsevles now to a photo from ten years ago. They write how their life was different then from now and then present the information to the class.
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Writing: The Reporter Game
Learners participate in a game in which they create stories for an imaginary newspaper. In this journalism and writing lesson, students are encouraged to write more than one story.
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Reading: TV, Hamburger, Obesity Gene
Students examine the problem of obesity and fast food. The class is divided into two groups, and read different text. They hold a town hall meeting in which they discuss whether a fast food restaurant should be opened in the town.
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Reading: Alphabet Uno Card Game
Students use the game of Uno to help them learn their numbers and colors. The cards have letters on them instead of numbers.
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Reading: International Year of Rice
Students are asked to identify the five grains and the types of food they eat. They read two articles about rice and even make rice recipes later in the lesson plan.
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Reading: Text Reconstruction
Young scholars read a paragraph and reconstruct it based on the instructions from the teacher. After summarizing the article, students discuss the process in a large group setting.
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Reading: Using Novels
Students practice their pre-reading and post-reading skills. A worksheet and answers are included in this lesson.
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Reading: David Beckham
Students read a story about David Beckham. They answer comprehension questions and study vocabulary words with the prefix un.
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Reading: Graded Reader Blind Date
Students talk about what they like and do not like to read. They are assigned a new partner and they try to pick a book their original partner would like.
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Speaking: What's Your Problem?
Learners give advice to other students about what they should and should not be doing when speaking to a group.