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Creating a Poster of a Famous Person
High schoolers research a famous person from a target culture and design, plan and create a poster about this person. They also make an oral presentation to explain their poster to the rest of the class.
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Countries of the World
Students in a ESL classroom examine a world map and study the various countries' names. The study the cultures of selected countries and create a vocabulary list. Finally they label an empty map with the countries' names and a short...
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One Big Happy Family
Students will explore the role and structure of the family in the target culture and the relationships among family members. The skills help learners make connections to language because the information of the lesson uses personal examples.
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Yearbook Project for ESL Students
High schoolers in an ESL classroom are introduced to the American tradition of creating a yearbook. Using previous yearbooks, they note the various components and practice using new vocabulary. They brainstorm a list of items they would...
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An Adaptable Four-Skill ESL Information-gap Acivity
Students encounter a variety of grammar structures and vocabularies in the English language. Students get involved with teacher statistics as well with this lesson plan. Students correlate facts thru chronological order steps. Students...
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A Brainstorming Activity for ESL/EFL Students
Students connect with new creative ways to brainstorm ideas. Students encounter role playing with this lesson plan. Students predict future brainstorming topics. Students are encouraged to work with others in small group sessions.
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Pizzazz!...Basket Stories
Pupils discuss the use of connectors and sequence words. They discuss common story endings and beginnings. Students brainstorm ideas for a creative story and compose a story for the rest of the class.
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Perceptions - Difference
Students explore different perceptions and differences between people. They incorporate the themes of stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination. Students comprehend that people have different perceptions of the same phenomenon. They...
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Come Fly a Kite
Fourth graders explore the language of procedural text forms. They respond to the meanings and ideas in procedural text and write their own procedural text for making a kite. Students record their kite flying experience using digital...
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Multi-sensory Writing
Students use their senses to help describe special place they have been. They write short sensory-image essay that incorporate all five of their senses, and identify sensory language while reading different pieces of literature.
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Language Arts: Word Recognition and Mental Images
Students read short stories containing Dolch sight words and describe the scenes and answer comprehension questions. After relating the stories to their own experiences or observations, they draw pictures illustrating a scene from the...
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Find the Error 54
In this grammar worksheet, students read a short comic. Students locate one mistake in either apostrophes, articles, singular/plurals, or spelling.
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Company Parking Lot
In this ESL instructional activity, learners listen or read to a description of where 10 employees park their cars in the company lot. Students complete a table with information from the reading/listening.
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Grammar Practice: Common Mistakes
For this grammar worksheet, students will read examples of the 5 most common grammar mistakes made in written and oral language. Then students will read the corrected versions of the sentences.
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Verb Forms
In this grammar worksheet, students write six infinitive verbs. Then, students complete a table by filling in the present simple, past simple, present continuous, past continuous, present perfect and past participle for each verb.
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Prepositional Phrases
In this ESL worksheet, students write a different number from 1-100 inside two grids. Students ask a partner about what numbers they wrote and use prepositional phrases to describe their location.
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Adding -able or -ible to Words
In this spelling worksheet, students complete 40 words by adding either -able or -ible. Words include abominable, admissible, and audible.
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Adjectives
In this ESL worksheet, students read a story about a woman named Katrina and her boyfriend, Brad. Students complete 15 gaps in the story by filling in the correct adjective.
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Correcting Sentences
In this grammar worksheet, students read 20 sentences about everyday conversation. Students rewrite each sentence correctly, checking for apostrophe errors.
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Discussion Questions
In this ESL worksheet, students read 11 questions, such as "Do you believe in life after death?" Students discuss the questions in partners or as a basis for writing assignments.
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Prefixes
In this grammar worksheet, students add the correct prefix to 15 words. Students also write another word beside it that has the same suffix.
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Homophones
In this ESL instructional activity, students read 20 sentences that include homophones. Students underline the incorrect homophones and write in the correct words.
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Everyday Signs And Notices
In this vocabulary worksheet, students unscramble 20 words. All of the words come from everyday signs and notices, such as "No dogs allowed."
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United Kingdom
For this ESL worksheet, students answer 20 questions about the United Kingdom. For example, "What is the capital city of the UK?"