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Movie Riddles: An ESL Activity to Get Student Talking About Movies

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Enjoy the thrill of the movies with this ESL activity! Not only can learners talk about their favorite films, but in creating riddles about their chosen movies, they can practice the skills of context clues and deductive reasoning. This...
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Low Level Activities for Adult ESL

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Suggestions for interview topics with question prompts, scavenger hunts, oral presentations, and reading and writing prompts abound in this 11-page packet of activities for English language learners. ESL worksheets are also included...
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Reading and Vocabulary - Sale Ads

For Teachers Higher Ed
Intermediate ESL students practice reading sale ads. They will look through a sales catalog or newspaper and highlight words they don't know, work together to determine the definitions, then decide how much they save in given situations.
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Writing a How-To Paper

For Students 4th - 5th
In this ESL writing worksheet, students choose one of ten story starters and write an essay on how to do something. No hints or procedures are provided.
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Question Tags Practice

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Young grammarians complete 20 interrogative sentences by adding formulaic question tags. They use the verbs could, would or should with an appropriate pronoun in question tags to complete each sentence. Example: They would...
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ESL Comparative Adjectives 2

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In these English Language activity worksheets, students complete several conversational and writing practice activities for comparative adjectives.
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Writing Questions

For Students 4th - Higher Ed
While this activity involving formulating questions was designed for older ESL students, it could be modified for use in upper elementary. Using this 15 questions learning exercise, students practice taking information and forming a...
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FCE or CAE Cloze Practice Games

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Learners play a "Disappearing Sentence" memory game with a sentence from an exam paper. They write cloze tasks for each other to practice for the exam.
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ESL Writing and Sight Words: "Peg the Hen"

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this ESL sight word and writing practice worksheet, students trace and write a set of sight words from "Peg the Hen." A reference web site is given for additional resources.
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ESL Writing Wizard-Word Family-ug/un/ut

For Students 2nd - 4th
For this ESL writing worksheet, students practice tracing and writing a set of 16 words in the ug/un/ut word family. A reference web site for additional activities is given.
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ESL: Classmates Survey

For Students 6th - 9th
Get your beginning English Learners moving with this class survey. They ask each other the 8 questions provided to find out "How many of your classmates..." Good practice for asking questions that start with"Do you..." including "make...
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ESL: Basic Vocabulary Matching

For Students 3rd - 8th
Newcomers to English can practice vocabulary about food, daily actions, and school supplies with this 10-question matching exercise. Simple line drawings represent basic terms for beginners.
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ESL: Practice Tag Questions

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Use this resource with your kids learning English as their second language. They read the short description of tag questions before attempting to complete 10 themselves. 
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Writing Practice: Name the Pictures

For Students 1st - 2nd
For this picture naming worksheet, students study 7 pictures and, using a picture name, answer the question. Example: What is this item of clothing? (It is a sock.) This is intended for ESL students.
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Writing Paragraphs

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders examine the process of writing a paragraph that describes events in chronological order. They listen to a teacher-led discussion, construct a paragraph in pairs, and independently write a paragraph following the process...
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Writing Letters

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students see the difference between business letters and other letters that could be received in the mail, such as bills, invitations, and letters from friends or relatives. They practice writing letters as well as sending them.
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Writing a Letter to the Editor

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students examine the structure and elements of a letter to the editor. They identify letter elements, read and discuss newspaper letters, and write and submit a letter to a local newspaper.
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Writing a Letter to the Editor

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students identify the main elements/structure of a letter to the editor. They brainstorm for thoughts and opinions on a specific topic and write a first draft of a letter to an editor of a newspaper. They give each other preliminary...
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Research Listed Websites for Support for Writing a Summary

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Summary writing is tough for native English speakers, let alone English language learners! In this plan, high school English learners examine how to annotate online articles and write a one-page summary. They can post this summary on...
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Right on Time

For Teachers 4th - 6th
The hour is nigh for your class to practice equivalency problems in the form of time-zone conversions. They write equations to describe elapsed time and apply problem solving strategies, including writing a plan, to solve the problems.
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Reduced Time Adverb Clauses

For Students 7th - 10th
Looking for a way to improve your students' writing conventions? Include this adverb clauses worksheet in your next grammar lesson. Middle and high schoolers read a three-paragraph selection and rewrite adverb time clauses to make the...
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World Teachers' Day

For Students 3rd - 5th
Practice reading comprehension by having your class read a factual passage about World Teachers' Day and mach phrases, fill in the blanks, identify correct grammar usage, unscramble vocabulary words, sequence sentences from the passage,...
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Gerunds and Infinitives

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Learning proper grammar rules for a middle school student can be difficult, especially in a texting world, but this resource demonstrates how the verb changes by adding a gerund or infinitive. Keep up the texting, but use this to...
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ESL English Homework

For Students 4th - 6th
In this ESL homework practice learning exercise, students practice telling time by writing times shown, look up words that match pictures and copy definitions and practice making itineraries.