Students practice their reading and speaking skills by expressing their opinions of characters.

Students design a PowerPoint slide presentation using information gathered about a Spanish speaking country. They incluse 6 specific slides in their presentation and present them to the entire class.

Students practice speaking in simple sentences. As a class, they describe their typical day and a day of one of their friends or movie stars. They all must speak in front of the class and use the correct verb tense.

Students in an ESL classroom practice their listening and speaking skills. As a class, they are read a story and are asked repeatedly what, why, where, when and next to predict was is going to happen. They can use this technique for any...

Fourth graders identify literary techniques by participating in a class discussion. For this organization lesson, 4th graders practice public speaking while presenting ideas for a story to their classmates as well as critiquing the ideas...

Seventh graders discover the variety of French Speaking Countries worldwide. They discover, compare and contrast some distinguishing features of those areas. Students complete several worksheets within this lesson.

Students formulate an impromptu speech about a given topic. In this public speaking lesson, students choose a topic from a deck of pre-written index cards and quickly present an impromptu speech. Students use a rubric to review the...

Students learn the importance of good presentation skills. They make their presentation focused on a particular type of audience, learn what information to include, explain how to keep the audience interested, and explore how to deal...

Students research and write a report about a French-speaking country and present their research to classmates. They create a persuasive advertising brochure promoting one specific country as the best tourist destination.

In this listening and speaking worksheet, students will engage in a short discussion about live music and King Arthur. Then students will listen to a short history of Glastonbury, England and fill in the text gaps with words in a word...

In this interviewing skills and speaking practice worksheet, students sharpen their skills as they use the 16 questions provided to interview a partner. Students compare answers with other students.

Students speak and listen to different prices of items and complete a worksheet. In this prices lesson plan, students circle the correct prices on a sheet they are given based on the ones their teacher calls out.

Students reflect on their use of technology for learning and communication both inside and outside of school. They consider how their math, science, and technology education is preparing them for future success. They discuss their...

Students explore the Tamil language. They listen to parts of a story read in English, Hindi and Tamil. Tamil word cards are matched with their English equivalent. Practice saying basic Tamil words daily within the instructional activity.

Students practice moving from manual communication boards to an electronic voice output device. They replace Mayer-Johnson picture symbols with words on student's manual communication boards.

Students listen to The Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle and use a teacher created puppet for a listening activity.  For this Hungry Caterpillar lesson, students recall the order of events in the story with the puppet and cards of...

Students listen as the teacher reads "When Clay Sings," by Byrd Taylor. They discuss clay, and view a variety of clay items. Students watch a video clip "Interests in One of a Kind Pots." They watch a demonstration on working with clay....

Students compare the differences between bilingualism and registers of discourse. They investigate how economic, historical and interpersonal relationships affect language and relationships.

In this ESL activity, students ask a partner 14 questions and write their responses. Students also discover how they can ask 6 questions in a different way.

In this word pronunciation worksheet, students work in pairs to identify which word is said by the partner. Words provided are similar either in spelling or sound providing a challenge for English language learners.

In this ESL looking for a job worksheet, students work in pairs to ask questions that will elicit information that is missing from their page.  Each page contains ten gaps in job advertisments from a local paper.

Fourth graders examine how a change in attitudes about death took place from the late eighteenth to the early nineteenth century and was embodied in gravestones, literature, and art.

Students engage in activities designed to increase self esteem, self awareness and human sexuality. They engage in a variety of activities to encourage active participation, introspection, stating and examining values, gaining factual...

Students view and discuss visual symbols around them every day, analyze symbols on United States one dollar bill, explore variety of meanings of same symbols depending on context and culture, and create their own money with symbols that...