Use pictures and manipulatives to develop vocabulary with your beginning language learners. This plan can be used with foreign language learners (although you'll have to provide the vocabulary), English language learners, or a young...

You can use this lesson with English language learners, a young language arts class, or speakers of a foreign language. The phrases learned are I need and I don't need. The teacher collects several items around the room, and learners...

Enhance your foreign language students' skills to describe a house. After reading a description of rooms in a house in their target language, they work to answer corresponding questions correctly. Additionally, they view a PowerPoint...

Students edit written work about a fashion show.  In this fashion show lesson plan, students write a presentation piece and works in groups of 4,6, or 8 to edit what they have written.  Students rehearse by pair sharing and...

Foreign language learners decipher the meanings of classified ads in the target language. They investigate a large collage created by the teacher of foreign language advertisements and discuss the content with classmates.  Then...

Students write positive sentences about their classmates.  In this describing a classmate lesson, students discuss a picture presented by the teacher.  After the teacher tells why she likes this person, students write sentences...

Young scholars write about their ideal mate.  In this ideal mate writing lesson, students listen and then help the teacher describe the characteristics of an ideal mate.  Young scholars write about their ideal mate and share...

Learners celebrate a fellow peer in class by having a party for him or her.  In this foreign language lesson, students celebrate a classmate's birth using their target language to host a party.  Learners create a bulletin board...

Young scholars explore fictional characters. In this fictional characters lesson plan, students hear information about a character then ask and answer questions. Young scholars also answer true/false questions about the character and...

Students practice descriptive writing by viewing auto-portraits of young children.  In this art analysis lesson, students examine an auto-portrait of their teacher as a young child and ask him/her questions about their youth....

Learners practice interviewing and answering questions by creating a mock talk show.  In this communications lesson, students view a classic clip of an older T.V. talk show and plan an outline of material for their own talk show....

Students practice ordering food in a new language.  In this food vocabulary lesson, students utilize the information from their previous lesson to create entire conversations about going to get food, as opposed to just the...

Students discover geographical places and terms in another language.  In this geographical identification lesson plan, students utilize their geographical vocabulary to describe to other classmates where they would like to go or...

Young scholars create a newspaper or magazine advertisement for clothing and personal items. Students make statements of preference regarding these items. Young scholars engage in a role play where two people are bargaining for various...

Students play a charades game to communicate what they like or don't like when they travel. In this travel lesson plan, students play the charades and then read and write sentences about a past traveling experience.

Students create a time capsule. In this oral presentation and history preservation activity, students provide feedback for their time capsule project, work with a partner to write an oral presentation, and present their time capsule to...

Students practice using a new language to plan a community event.  In this civics lesson plan, students practice writing a proposal for a community project using their target language.  Students brainstorm in small groups what...

Students study their national and family heritage while working in groups.  In this personal history project, students examine the family shield or crest of the teacher while preparing to create and share their own with the class....

Students investigate the format of a typical newspaper.  In this journalism lesson, students read a newspaper from a target language and discover the vocabulary associated with the news.  Students work together as a newspaper...

Students participate in classroom presentations. For this ELL lesson, students present a poster, collage, or PowerPoint to their partners. The teacher evaluates each presentation. 

Young scholars participate in a community service project. In this ELL lesson, students complete a project while the teacher takes photos. The young scholars use these photos in a bulletin board.