Film English
Music
Some emotions are indescribable, but sometimes you have to try! After brainstorming adjectives that describe emotions, pupils watch a quick film, at first with no sound. Partners share their adjectives and come up with descriptions for...
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Fear of Flying
A bird that's afraid of flying? See what happens to this character when it's time to fly south. Over the course of the lesson, pupils discuss fears in general, share their fears, make predictions about the film, and view the film. The...
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Reconstruction to Civil Rights
Eighth graders complete a unit of lessons on the period of time from Reconstruction to the Civil Rights movement. They analyze and interpret political cartoons and editorials, conduct research on famous civil rights places, and complete...
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Reading: Today's Youth
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students study an excerpt from a speech to welcome new students. Students complete 8 sentences with the correct word from the word bank.
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Using Drama as a Resource for Giving Language More Meaning
Learners revise and provide spoken and written practice of modal verbs in the past for criticism.
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The World's Newest landmark
Sixth graders study the various landmarks of the world. In this Geography lesson, 6th graders write about these landmarks.
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Words In The News
Students are asked to match the civil wars with the main dates they were fought. They work in groups and try to match the vocabulary with the definitions. Students work with other groups to pool their knowledge. They are told that they...
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Words in the News Hopes and Fears for Shuttle Discovery
Middle schoolers participate in vocabulary building activities including worksheets before reading an online article. They write a space travel diary of their first visit to outer space in a journal entry.
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English Exercises: Idioms about Garfield, Cool Cat
In this English exercises: idioms about Garfield, cool cat worksheet, 6th graders watch the video, interactively unscramble 4 lines to the song, fill in 10 more word in the lyrics, match 10 cat idioms with their meaning, then write a...
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Prepositions
Learn about grammar the fun way! Eight activities about prepositions of time and place and phrasal verbs are sure to intrigue learners of all levels. Each activity requires minimal materials and set up, but will pay off in skills and...
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Words in the News: New Maori King
Students work together in groups to identify new vocabulary words. They read a story about the new Maori King in New Zealand and answer questions. They also examine reported speech in the article.
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Disappearing Dialogue
Students practice speaking with each other in a functional language. In groups, they discuss James Bond films and brainstorm known facts about the character. After observing a given dialogue, groups of students rearrange phrases to make...
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Body Parts (Intermediate)
In this ESL word and picture matching worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures that depict body parts. Students match these to the words that describe them.
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The Essential Brick
Students examine their position within their school and discuss qualities they need to be productive citizens outside of school. they culminate the unit by writing an autobiography that includes the concepts of responsibility, choice,...
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Preposition Review
In this preposition practice worksheet, students fill in the 20 blanks in the 11 sentences with the appropriate prepositions.
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Working with Tenses
in this working with tenses worksheet, students identify time expressions in sentences. Students then determine the tense of each of the verb phrases and create new sentences.
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Create Your Own Sporting Event
Students use their imagination and language skills to create and describe their own sporting event. In this sporting event lesson, students brainstorm sports related vocabulary and identify their parts of speech. Students categorize the...
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Expressing Likes and Dislikes
Students identify slang words that they would use in a conversation. They practice expressing their likes and dislikes in speech and written form. They complete worksheets and discuss them to end the lesson.
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Reading: Home on the Range
Learners read a verse from the song, "Home on the Range," and determine if 7 statements about the verse are true or false. An interesting activity using this classic song.
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Prepositions of Time
In this prepositions of time learning exercise, students complete 15 fill in the blank questions where they complete a sentence with the correct preposition of time.
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James Taylor--
Here's a fun activity to help ELL learners identify verbs. The lyrics to "You've Got a Friend" by James Taylor are written out with several of the verbs missing. Learners listen to the song and fill in the missing verbs.
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James Taylor "You've Got a Friend"
In this verbs worksheet, students first listen to the James Taylor song "You've Got a Friend." Students fill in the missing verbs in the song lyrics by choosing the correct word from the word box.
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James Taylor "You've Got A Friend"
In this song lyrics activity, students use words from the word bank to fill in 15 words in a text of the lyrics of James Taylor's song "You've Got a Friend."
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Nouns and Pronouns Quiz
In this nouns and pronouns quiz instructional activity, middle schoolers respond to 10 questions regarding possessive nouns and 10 questions regarding pronouns.