US Environmental Protection Agency
Teach English, Teach About the Environment
Spread the message of recycling while teaching your English language learners new vocabulary and practicing verb tenses. Included here are four lesson plans for each level (beginning, intermediate, and advanced) as well as accompanying...
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Discriminating Phonemes 2
Some sounds sound very similar! Help your class learn how to distinguish between various sounds by following the steps outlined in this plan. The plan includes a warm-up, a teacher-led portion, and details for guided and independent...
Curated OER
Minimal Pair Pronunciation Lesson
Students distinguish minor differences between English vowel sounds.
American English
Welcome to the Color Vowel Chart
Focus English language learners' attention on word stress and phrase stress with a pronunciation chart that breaks the sounds into moving and non-moving vowel sounds. The chart tool uses colors and key words to indicate where to put the...
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Pronunciation --ed
In this phonetic symbols worksheet, learners study the phonetic symbols for 4 different sounds of the -ed ending. Students read 20 words and write the phonetic symbol for each --ed verb ending. Learners then read a passage containing...
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Words in the News Live8 Performances' Profit Question
Students complete word work and vocabulary building activities before reading an online article. They examine how changing the stress on a syllable can change the meaning and pronunciation of a word.
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Major Regional Dialects
What does your dialect sound like? Examine variation in English as it relates to geographic regions with your class. They recognize some of the major differences between regional dialects and determine that everyone speaks a dialect....
EngageNY
Presenting a Research-Based Claim: Visual Aid and Peer Critique
Back to the drawing board. Scholars work on the visual to complement their claim presentations using the Criteria for the Cascading Consequences Chart Visual as a guide. They then practice their presentations with partners.
EngageNY
Presenting a Research-Based Claim: Effective Speaking Techniques
Take note. Scholars receive their claim drafts back to revise and write their claims and three pieces of evidence on notecards. They save the notecards to use when the verbally present their claims to the class. At the end, individuals...
Curated OER
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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The Coffee House
Students study and write poetry. In this poetry project, students read, analyze, and produce poetry. Students examine and analyze fifteen poems and at the culmination of the unit, perform one of their poems for an audience.
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Image Conscious
Students take a stand on the concept of changing their appearance. In this changing of ones image lesson, students create a design that would change their image and discuss the age they think they should be to make that change in their...
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Instant Spelling Activity: Homographs
Learners identify homographs. In this homograph lesson, students listen to a sentence that contains a homograph to identify the homograph. Learners choose 16 homographs to put in a BINGO grid. Students write sentences that contain a...
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Adjectives 2
For this grammar worksheet, students match pictures with the adjective pairs. Each adjective pair consists of two words that are opposites, such as handsome and ugly.
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Food2
In this vocabulary worksheet, students match names of ten foods with their pictures. The worksheet is intended for use with English language learners.
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ESL Irregular Verbs Matching Worksheet
In this ESL irregular verbs worksheet, students examine 10 small, colorful clip art pictures of actions before matching them to the proper form of the verb that describes them.
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ESL Classroom Object Words Matching
In this ESL naming classroom objects matching worksheet, students examine colorful clip art pictures of classroom objects. They match the 8 objects to the words that name them.
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ESL Complete the Sentence- Idiom Worksheet
In this ESL complete the idiom worksheet, students fill in the endings to common idioms. They see a small, colorful clip art picture that shows the meaning of the idiom before they complete the sentence.
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ESL House Words- Matching Worksheet
In this ESL house picture/word matching worksheet, students match small, black and white pictures of rooms in a house with the word that names them. They complete 7 examples with words such as kitchen, garage, living room, and bathroom.
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ESL How Much or How Many?- Fill in the Blank
In this ESL how much or how many fill-in-the-blank worksheet, students examine small clip art pictures before answering 8 "how much" or "how many" questions.
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ESL Prepositions- Where is the Ball? Fill in the Blank Worksheet
In this ESL prepositions fill-in-the-blank worksheet, students examine 7 small pictures showing the placement of a soccer ball as it relates to a box. They answer the question, "Where is the ball?" on each blank line.
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ESL Things We Like To Do Multiple Choice Worksheet
In this ESL things we like to do multiple choice activity, students answer 8 questions based on clip art pictures. They choose the correct answer from 4 that best answers the questions which include, "Can Kermit play tennis?" and "Do you...
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ESL Adjectives Multiple Choice Worksheet
In this ESL adjectives worksheet, students examine small, colorful clip art pictures. They choose the correct answer to 7 questions that include "Is an angel bad or good?" and "Is the woman slow?"