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Museums, Museums, Museums!
Students explore the websites for museums in either Paris or Madrid. They complete a website worksheet, answer questions about each museum, and create an ad for one of the museums.
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One Story, Many Tales
Students compare and contrast various versions of the fairytale Cinderella. In this folktale lesson, students read The Korean Cinderella and The Egyptian Cinderella and analyze the differences between the two stories. Students identify...
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Pioneering Children on the Move
Students inquire about life for pioneer children. In this pioneer period lesson, students analyze photographs of children, make information foldables, and create a covered wagon that was typical of the ones of the past. Students will...
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Business Lesson Describing Trends
Students practice their skills using business English. After a lecture/demo, students interpret economic graphs which are imbedded in this instructional activity. Then, they create their own graphs and describe them to the class.
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Exploring Descriptive Language With Different Parts of Speech
Students practice experiencing writing with appropriate language and incorporating the eight parts of speech. They assess that many words have multiple functions when used in different contexts. Each student free writes in response to a...
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Family Album: ESL, Social Studies, Art, Bookmaking, Literacy
Students construct a personalized book with their own family members to practice family vocabulary and literacy in English. This activity would benefit any kindergartener; but is especially aimed at the English Learner.
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We and Thee
Students examine class structure. In this diversity education instructional activity, students discuss stereotypes within their school as an introduction to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. After students have read the play and discussed...
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Calico Watercolor Cats
A fun art project, this lesson incorporates math and listening skills as young artists play with a new painting technique. First the teacher models how to draw a cat using shapes, an oval for the body, triangles for the ears and so on,...
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Appreciating the Language and Interpreting the Meaning of Hamlet's Soliloquy
Students analyze Hamlet's soliloquy, "To be or not to be." In this Hamlet lesson plan, students define unfamiliar words in the soliloquy and interpret the lines. Students then read the lines aloud and identify descriptive...
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Compare and Contrast the French Cinderella with Other Cultural Versions
Learners first compare and contrast the traditional French Cinderella with Cinderella stories from around the world as well as the opera synopsis. Students write their own Cinderella stories, personalizing them with aspects from their...
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Breaking News: School Bans Hugging and High Fives
Learners explore current events by analyzing a news article in class. In this school ban instructional activity, students read a story about a high school in London that has banned physical contact between all learners. Students answer...
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International Communication: Why English?
For this international communication of why English worksheet, students participate in four activities including why important sites are relevant to the history of communication, matching explanations with sites and conversation starters...
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Hostages
In this hostages activity, students, with a partner, read, analyze and discuss ten questions regarding terminology associated with someone taking someone else hostage.
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To Work or Not to Work?
For this partner worksheet, read and discuss eight questions regarding the concept of work and responsibilities.
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Make War, Not Love?
In this war worksheet, students complete 4 activities that address war terminology and opinions.
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Transports Of Delight?
In this transports of delight worksheet, students, with a partner, think of how many different modes of transportation there is, the advantages and disadvantages of each one and fill in the blanks in six sentences.
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Stress
In this stress worksheet, students, with a partner, rank fourteen occupations in order of how stressful they can be, explain the underlined words and phrases in seven sentences and start up a conversation with ten key questions.
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Up In The Air
For this up in the air worksheet, students, with a partner, brainstorm and discuss as many different ways of flying as possible, review a list of sixteen actions and events people experience when traveling and start a conversation with...
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Let It Snow!
In this let it snow activity, students, with a partner, read and discuss nine questions about sports to start a conversation and then fill in ten blanks in ten sentences associated with snow phrases.
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ESL Will You Help Me Please? Fill In the Blank Worksheet
In this ESL will you help me, please worksheet, students look at 8 small clip art picture of a people doing an activity. They complete the sentence, "Will you help me..." by filling in a description of what the person in the picture is...
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ESL Using Adjectives to Describe People
In this ESL using adjectives to describe people instructional activity, learners match each small clip art picture of a person to the adjective that describes him/her. They complete 8 examples using words such as tall, handsome, ugly,...
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ESL In the Classroom-Directions Matching Worksheet
In this ESL classroom directions worksheet, students examine 10 pictures that depict classroom instructions or commands. They match the pictures with the phrases that describe them, such as write your name, sit down, raise your hand, and...
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Word and Picture Matching (B2)
In this word and picture matching worksheet, students match 10 pictures with the words that tell about them. This is intended for ESL use but could be useful with others.
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ESL House Words- Matching Worksheet
In this ESL house picture/word matching learning exercise, 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...