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Weather and Seasons
Students identify weather terms associated with the four seasons and participate in a game "What is the Weather" using weather vocabulary to describe a season.
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ESL: Beginning Vocabulary Matching
Beginning English Learners match 10 line-drawn pictures of basic nouns with their names, such as kite, airplane, goat, and igloo. Indefinite articles are included, so this exercise also provides reinforcement for the a/an rule.
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ESL: Practice Using Present Progressive Tense
Small, cartoonish pictures of people expressing emotions and actions (blowing his nose, holding her head and frowning, dancing, smiling) provide the basis for writers to describe the feelings and experiences taking place. Help your ESL...
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ESL: Business Vocabulary Word Search
Language associated with business, economics, jobs, and the workplace makes up this word search puzzle with 54 items to find. Lesson has links to printable pdf and HTML formats, with answer keys for each. Some spellings are of British...
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ESL: Classmates Survey
Get your beginning English Learners moving with this class survey. They ask each other the 8 questions provided to find out "How many of your classmates..." Good practice for asking questions that start with"Do you..." including "make...
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Airport English: A Role-Play for ESL
Students explore the skills needed to navigate an airport. In this foreign language lesson, students discuss the skills they will need in order to make it through customs with as little trouble as possible.
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Have You Seen Jack?
Students study relative clauses and appositives. In this ESL lesson, students role play. Students use relatives clauses and appositives to describe people. Students use dialogue.
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Endangered Species
Students label the endangered species on the page. In this investigative instructional activity students answer the questions on the instructional activity about endangered species.
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Day Two: Greeting and dialogues
Learners practice greetings and dialogues in English. For this ELL lesson, students watch a silent video with people greeting one another and make predictions about what they are saying. They write dialogues and share them with a neighbor.
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Day Five: Classroom Presentation
Students participate in classroom presentations. In this ELL lesson, students present a poster, collage, or PowerPoint to their partners. The teacher evaluates each presentation.
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Day Three: Reading menus; writing letters
Students practice English vocabulary in menus and food items. In this ELL instructional activity, students look at pictures of people eating and describe what they are doing. They talk about the food that they like and dislike and...
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Day One: Dinner foods and beverages
Young scholars learn English vocabulary for dinner foods and beverages. In this ELL lesson plan, students create a list of healthy foods and discuss good food habits. They discuss healthy activities and exercises.
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Vocabulary Worksheets - Count and Noncount Nouns
In this thunder and lightning themed, vocabulary worksheet, students read a passage and then answer 8 multiple choice comprehension questions.
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Worksheet #9 Verbs: Opposites
In this opposites vocabulary worksheet, students complete 10 matching questions where they match a word given in each question to its opposite in another column.
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Advanced Synonyms and Antonyms
In this ELL, synonyms and antonyms worksheet, students answer 6 multiple choice questions where they choose the best synonym for each word given. Then students answer 6 multiple choice questions where they choose the best antonym for...
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Advanced Synonyms and Antonyms - Multiple Choice - Nouns 2
In this synonyms and antonyms worksheet, students complete 6 multiple choice questions where they choose the best synonym for each word given. Then students complete 6 multiple choice questions where they choose the best antonym for...
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Beginning Forming Questions - "Where"
In this forming where questions worksheet, students complete 8 fill in the blank questions where they change a given phrase into a question that asks where.
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Beginning Paragraph Correction #11
In this ELL, grammar worksheet, students read a paragraph with 8 underlined phrases, then students complete 8 multiple choice questions where they provide corrections for corresponding passages in the paragraph.
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Vocabulary Review: Opposites
In this ELL, opposites vocabulary worksheet, students read 10 vocabulary words and then match each word with a word that has the opposite meaning.
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Spelling by Picture - School Subjects
In this school subjects spelling instructional activity, students spell each of the 8 school subject words correctly in the blanks provided. There is a corresponding picture to help students figure out what the word is, and some of the...
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Expressing Yourself #2
ESL learners complete sentences that are expressions about themselves. This activity provides learners with an opportunity to learn and use vocabulary related to activities and interests they have personally.
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Parts of Speech: Adverbs
This worksheet provides a good explanation of adverbs and several examples as well. Students are asked to underline the adverbs in 18 sentences. This would be a good practice worksheet to us with ESL learners.
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Making Questions
Students create questions for the answers provided. This activity gives ESL students a chance to practice making questions.
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Word Search #11: Flight
In this worksheet, ESL learners locate words related to the word flight. This is a very basic word search and might be useful as extra credit.