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Planning a Class Party

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students investigate event planning.  In this literacy and communications lesson, students brainstorm food, activity, and guest  ideas for a monthly classroom celebration of student birthdays.
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Home Tour

For Teachers 4th - 6th
In this exchange student lesson, students create a story about an exchange student. Students draw a map to show the location of community buildings and practice providing directions from location to location.
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A Look at Geography

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
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...
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Buying Clothes

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students create a story about friends going shopping with new vocabulary. In this creating a story lesson plan, students use new language and number words in their story.
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Bargaining

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students create a newspaper or magazine advertisement for clothing and personal items. Students make statements of preference regarding these items. Students engage in a role play where two people are bargaining for various items.
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Time Capsule

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Pupils create a rough draft for a time capsule project. In this time capsule lesson plan, students bring in items to put into a time capsule and write a rough draft to submit to their teacher.
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Communicating with My World

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create a time capsule. In this oral presentation and history preservation lesson, students provide feedback for their time capsule project, work with a partner to write an oral presentation, and present their time capsule to the...
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Grooming Activity

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Learners discover the essential items to properly groom for a nice event.  In this cleaning habits lesson, students discuss and identify important cleaning items such as a brush, shower gel, cologne, etc.  Learners create a...
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Planning a Community Service Project

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students practice using a new language to plan a community event.  In this civics lesson, students practice writing a proposal for a community project using their target language.  Students brainstorm in small groups what their...
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Group Rehearsal

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
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....
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Let's Read the Newspaper

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students investigate the format of a typical newspaper.  In this journalism lesson plan, students read a newspaper from a target language and discover the vocabulary associated with the news.  Students work together as a...
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Correspondence

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students write a pen pal letter to narrate a special event in the life of a young person in the TL culture. In this pen pal lesson plan, students read and respond to letters by their classmates.
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Creating Our Newspapers

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students write newspaper articles in groups to form a class newspaper. For this newspaper lesson plan, students share their work with another group who critiques it.
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About Discussions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils exchange opinions, express feelings, and listen to presentations of others about an argument. In this discussion lesson plan, students learn how to listen and respond for an argument they intend to have.
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On the air! Interviews

For Teachers 4th - 7th
In this mock interview instructional activity, students view pictures of famous personalities and determine which of these personalities they would like to interview. Students follow the three step interview process and conduct a...
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Day Five: Classroom Presentation

For Teachers K - 12th
Students participate in classroom presentations. In this ELL instructional activity, students present a poster, collage, or PowerPoint to their partners. The teacher evaluates each presentation. 
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Words In The News

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students brainstorm through playing a guessing game to determine the person they will be researching is Fidel castro. They review his background then hear a radio presentation from Castro then answer and discuss a given set of questions.
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Dictionary Skills

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders use resources such as dictionaries and glossaries correctly to build word meaning and to practice all uses of their references; students also practice alphabetical order while locating information.
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Parts! Parts! Who Has the Matching Part?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders identify the subject part of a sentence. They receive randomly distributed teacher-made sentence parts. They have either a subject part of a sentence or the remainder of the sentence.
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Christmas Truce

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students research the Christmas truce during World War I. In this social studies lesson, students discuss World War I and the Christmas Truce. Students write a response about the truce.
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Day eight: Participating in a community service project

For Teachers K - 12th
Students participate in a community service project. For this ELL lesson, students complete a project while the teacher takes photos. The students use these photos in a bulletin board. 
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Integrating Past Continuous

For Teachers 7th - 9th
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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Passives Xmas traditions bluff

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Learners build a vocabulary of words about Christmas traditions. In this Christmas traditions holiday instructional activity, students work in teams to change vocabulary sentences from true sentences to false sentences. The opposing team...
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Reading Comprehension

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
For this ESL worksheet, young scholars read a paragraph about a character named Bob and his wife, Linda. Students answer 20 questions about the paragraph.