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Compare and Contrast Night to Life is Beautiful
After reading Elie Wiesel's Night, watching the movie Life is Beautiful, and researching World War II, class members write a comparison essay on the book and film. This includes a prior knowledge activity, discussion in whole and small...
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Tag Questions - With Assorted Verbs
If they are intrinsically motivated, your learners complete a 10-question matching online interactive quiz. They match sentences with the tag questions that go with them. They don't need to try on their own before the answers are...
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International Children's Book Day
Celebrate International Children's Book Day using this resource. Learners complete activities, such as reading a passage, sequencing, unscrambling sentences, writing questions, conducting surveys, and writing. Students complete twelve...
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ESL Lesson Plan
Students listen to a story and comprehend, in a manner of writing down the story sentence by sentence, possibly in the exact words. They read their own writings to others and make them understand.
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Body Parts Trace and Read
In this ESL body parts learning exercise, students enhance their vocabularies by first tracing, then printing, and finally writing the body part vocabulary words on the lines.
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House Plan
In this ESL worksheet, students will learn house related vocabulary and create sentences about how they would arrange furniture in a home. Sample lesson ideas are included.
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Let it Snow!
Learners participate in various activities in the snow to determine how snow affects our lives, what we wear in the snow, and what activities we can enjoy in the snow. Lesson includes many resource links.
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Computer Language Laboratory First Lesson
Students in the English Language Learners classroom utilize the computer for a variety of review activities. The teacher uses e-mail to send students D.O.L. (Daily Oral Language) sentences, a quote or passage of interest, or a website...
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What's Your Emergency?
Students identify different medical emergencies they may encounter. As a class, they discuss ways in which they can deal with different medical emergencies. Students practice responding to medical emergencies by writing a brief...
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ESL - Thematic Unit Plan
Students read a variety of poetry books together in small groups. They examine Haiku poetry and share their favorites. They write their own Haiku either individually in a pair. They read and discuss limericks and work on writing their own.
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ESL Class Identity
Students work together to identify and research the country and culture of origin for each member of a group in a new ESL class. They organize the researched information in a poster and present their findings to the class.
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ESL Vocabulary Lesson Plan - Opposites for Beginners
Students work on vocabulary lesson plans.
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ESL Vocabulary and Writing: Fruit
In these English Language vocabulary and writing worksheets, students use the pictures of the fruit to identify the fruit vocabulary words and then write sentences about each word.
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ESL Vocabulary Trace and Read: Fruit
In these English Language vocabulary worksheets, students trace the words for each fruit word, write the words on the lines, and then use the pictures to help them identify each vocabulary word.
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ESL Vocabulary: Family
In these English Language vocabulary worksheets, learners connect the dots from the pictures about family to their matching terms. Students then write the terms on the lines and find the missing letters to complete the family terms.
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ESL Connect the Dots: Fruit
In this English Language vocabulary activity, students connect the dots from the fruit images to the words that match. Students then trace and find the missing letters to help them correctly spell each word.
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ESL Vocabulary Word Search: School
In these English Language word search worksheets, students complete the six different word searches to help them learn vocabulary words about school.
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ESL Vocabulary Crossword: Food
In this English Language crossword worksheet, students use the pictures to identify the specific type of food and then complete the crossword puzzle.
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Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree
Students dictate a story to the teacher. They practice key vocabulary. They be exposed to the language experience approach to writing. They watch a video as a listening exercise.
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How Weather Affects Our Lives
English learners practice basic weather terms from listening to two books. They keep a daily weather record for two weeks to record the type of weather, as well as the high and low temperatures for each day. Next, they complete a simple...
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Scrambled Dialog
How does a conversation flow? Have your learners practice with conversation and dialogue by asking them to rearrange sentence strips in order to make a coherent conversation between two people. After ordering the strips, pairs...
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Guess What Board Game
Pupils play the game "Guess What" to review using a relative clause. In this ESL lesson, students listen to the teacher describe something using the relative clause and then guess what that thing is or the pupils must define something...
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Phonics Monsters Rummy!
Students play the game Phonics Rummy and practice making words from phonics monster cards. In this ESL activity, students respond to icons. Students also respond to pictures and words while reading phrases that provide visual cues.
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Calico Watercolor Cats
A fun art project, this lesson incorporates math and listening skills as young artists play with a new painting technique. First the teacher models how to draw a cat using shapes, an oval for the body, triangles for the ears and so on,...