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Conversation Lesson: Internet Craze
Learning to support your opinions, debate, build arguments, and effectively respect another's point of view are vital skills. Learners work through a series of topics to practice discussion engagement and verbal communication.
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A VIP - Present Perfect Simple and Continuous
Here is an interesting way to teach the present perfect and present perfect continuous. Individuals practice these verb tenses as well as the simple past by asking a partner questions about an imaginary biography. The biography...
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Writing an Informal Letter
What is the difference between formal and informal letter writing? Who gets a formal letter? What about an informal letter? This reference page presents different introductions and phrases you might see in each type of letter, and then...
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Conversation Lesson: Men and Women - Equal at Last?
Students engage in a debate about equality between men and women as a way to work on their conversational skills. The format of the debate is imbedded in this plan.
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Best Friend - Friend from Hell
Learners practice in a number of areas: expressing opinions, using comparatives and superlatives, descriptive adjectives and reported speech. The overall concept of this instructional activity can be applied to many other topics of...
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Grammar Reviewing Using A Sentence Auction
Students participate in an auction game in which they buy as many correct sentences as they can with an imaginary $3000. In this grammar activity, students determine which sentences are correct and buy as many sentences as...
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Speaking and Listening Lesson Based on Ordering Food in a Restaurant
Learners practice the skill of ordering food in a restaurant. After a lecture/demo, students work in pairs. Utilizing a worksheet imbedded in this plan, they gain practice in the skill of ordering food from a menu.
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English Beginner Grammar Review # 2
Students review the most important intermediate level English tenses, structure and functions using grammar review worksheets.
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Speaking Skills - Asking Questions
Students improve speaking confidence when using difficult question forms. This lesson focuses on helping students explain how to engage in this kind of social conversation. A worksheet imbedded in this plan provides practice.
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Introductory Lesson for Advanced Level Classes
Students participate in conversation exercises to introduce themselves and to review verb tenses. They interview each other and share conversations.
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Integrating Past Continuous
Students recognize the situations in which the use of the past continuous would be beneficial in writing. They focus on the use of the past continuous as a descriptive tense when something important occurred.
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Comparative and Superlative Forms
Students practice identifying the comparative and superlative forms of language. The second phase of the lesson focuses on using the comparative and superlative forms actively in small group conversation.
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Countable and Uncountable Nouns - Noun Quantifiers
Students solidify their knowledge of countable and uncountable nouns and their quantifiers. The lesson includes a number of overlooked or idiomatic expressions to help higher level students expand their knowledge.
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Grammar Lesson Plan Focus on Paired Conjunctions
Young scholars engage in a lesson which is a straight forward, teacher centered, grammar lesson focusing on written and oral production of the target structure. After a lecture/demo, students work individually on an exercise imbedded in...
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Using Reported Speech
Students fine tune their communication skills to include expressing the ideas of others, as well as their own opinions. They must practice a number of times before feeling comfortable using them in every day conversations.
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Subject and Object Questions
Learners gain practice asking direct questions. They recognize the difference between subject and object questions. After a lecture/demo, students work in small groups and use a worksheet imbedded in this plan to gain practice.
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Pronunciation: Practicing Stress and Intonation
Students improved pronunciation by focusing on the stress-time nature of spoken English.
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Minimal Pair Pronunciation Lesson
Students distinguish minor differences between English vowel sounds.
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Then and Now
Students explain the differences and time relationships between the past simple, present perfect (continuous) and present simple tenses when speaking about the past and present. They use a graphic organizer before speaking.
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Creating a New Society
Students must decide which laws be followed and how many freedoms be allowed in a new society they create. This lesson plan works well for students of most levels - except beginners - as the subject brings out many opinions.
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ESL Vocabulary Lesson Plan - Opposites for Beginners
Students work on vocabulary lesson plans.
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Lesson Plan - ESL Vocabulary Lesson Plan - Opposites for Advanced Level Learners
Students in small groups work on opposites worksheet.
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Describing Vocabulary for Cinema, Movies, and Stars
Middle schoolers name their favorite actors and actresses, and then use adjectives to describe them. They go through a list of actors and actresses and discuss the adjectives they used to decribe them. As an extension, they can write...
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Building Character Adjectives Vocabulary
Students practice conversation skills while also focusing on improving their command of refined character description. They use a worksheet imbedded in this plan that has them select adjectives that describe their best friend.