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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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Conversation Practice
In this grammar worksheet, students practice working with conversations between two people. Students are given eight sets of sentences and eight phrases to match to the correct conversation.
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Conversation Lesson: Multinationals - Help or Hindrance?
Students engage in a debate regarding the status of nationals versus multinationals as a way of improving their conversation skills. The format for the debate is imbedded in this plan.
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What's the Difference?
In this advanced ESL conversation instructional activity, students analyze 24 pairs of easily confused words such as: borrow/lend, watch/see and job/career. Students pick up a card with a word pair and tell the group what the difference...
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Advanced Conversation
Students in an adult ESL program review what they know about the AIDS epidemic. After reading an article, they complete a survey on the epidemic of AIDS in Africa and identify the discrimination that occurs. They complete a quiz and...
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Advanced Dialogues- "I'm Hungry"
In this ESL conversation worksheet, students collaborate with another classmate to read a dialogue about being hungry. Students then answer 8 multiple choice questions about the dialogue.
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ESL: Advanced Conversation-Quiz #2
In this ESL advanced conversation quiz learning exercise, students match definition to slang words and phrases, write past tense verb forms, write plural forms of nouns, meanings of idioms and take dictation.
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Conversation Lesson: First World Obligation
Pupils engage in a debate about the obligation each country has to help other countries in need in order to help build their conversation skills. The format of the debate is imbedded in this lesson plan.
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The Old House
In this ESL conversation worksheet, learners read a report on the condition of an old house that needs repairing. In small groups or in partners, students discuss what needs to be done to repair the house.
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Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf?
Students, at the advanced beginner to low intermediate ESL levels, demonstrate comprehension of the play or story, "Little Red Riding Hood." They construct interviews based on knowledge of the characters in the play Little Red Riding Hood.
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Dialogues- "Milk and Aesthetics"
In this ESL activity, students collaborate with a classmate to read a dialogue about food preferences. Students then answer 8 multiple choice questions.
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Dialogues: "Want to Know a Secret?"
In this ESL worksheet, students collaborate with another classmate to read a dialogue about telling a secret. Students then answer 8 multiple choice comprehension and vocabulary questions.
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ESL Advanced Conversation-Quiz #6
In this ESL advanced conversation worksheet, students match words with literal meanings and circle "going to" when it can correctly be reduced to "gonna."
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ESL Advanced Conversation-Quiz 7
In this ESL advanced conversation instructional activity, students match slang phrases to literal meanings, choose words that correctly complete sentences and take dictation. [not given]
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ESL Advanced Conversation-Quiz #4
In this ESL advanced conversation quiz worksheet, students complete sentences by filling in correct words or phrases, marked stressed syllables in words and take dictation sentences. [not given]
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ESL-Advanced Conversation Quiz #5
In this ESL advanced conversation worksheet, students match a set of phrases with literal meanings, circle correct reduced pronunciations and take dictation.
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Speaking Skills - Asking Questions
Students improve speaking confidence when using difficult question forms. This lesson plan 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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Introducing...Me
High schoolers practice rephrasing techniques to ask and answer questions in order to maintain conversational exchanges. Students create scripts about themselves to use as conversation starters. This lesson is intended for high...
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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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Interview with Americans
In this ESL activity, students find 9 Americans and ask them each one of the 9 questions on the page. They then have the person sign by the question.
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Hello, How Do You Do?
Students role play proper greetings and etiquette in formal and informal work and social situations. Students compare and contrast introductions and conversational conventions in their native country and in the United States by writing...
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Advanced Conversation Quiz #1
In this vocabulary and pronunciation assessment worksheet, students complete 17 problems where they match words to definitions and circle the word that has a different vowel sound than the rest.
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Appropriate Topics For Small Talk
Students explore the concept of small talk. They identify topics that are proper and improper for small talk. Working with a partner, students practice small talk dialogs and responding to questions about their families and home life....
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Dream Kitchen
Advanced ESL students can engage in this lesson designed to practice compiling lists, adding costs, and describing why they chose a particular item. They will choose items from a magazine that they'd like in their dream kitchen. Next,...