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Studying English Abroad
Pupils explore what it might be like to study English in another country. In this ESL lesson, students complete several activities that represent what it might be like to experience learning the English language in another country,...
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I'm 93, But Quitting Job Would Drive Me Off My Trolley
Students read and discuss a news article about the elderly in the workplace. They use the content of the article for practice in making predictions, determining verb tense, and basic comprehension.
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Guided Writing: Writing a Story on the OHP
Students practice fluency as well as story-writing skills. They work together to prepare and write their stories. Students are told that they are going to write a story entitled 'A Wonderful Day' and that they are going to be the...
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Street Art
Students read and summarize texts about street art. In this language arts lesson, students construct cleft sentences. They answer several grammar exercises and discuss the answers in class.
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Beat the Cheats
Students read an online article and participate in Language Arts activities associated with it.
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Life's a Beach And It's on Your Doorstep
Students practice reading for details and review holiday vocabulary. They practice comparatives and superlatives.
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Love in a Time of Tv Hysteria
Learners read a longer text and participate in a number of comprehension activities.
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Buy Nothing Day
Students discuss the concept behind "Buy Nothing Day". They practice reading articles and viewing pictures related to the event. They practice using new vocabulary as well.
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Slowly But Steadily, Madness Descended
Students read an article about the chaos that ensued at a bargain store opening. They discuss bias in the way the article is written and the words that are used. They roleplay what might have happened that day at the store opening and...
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Defining Voice of the Punk Years
Students analyze the music of The Clash and have extensive and intensive practice in reading and listening skills.
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Future Continuous or Future Perfect?
In this ESL future continuous/perfect verb worksheet, students read a schedule of a day during a business trip. Students complete 10 sentences about the information by using the correct verb form.
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Adopt Ivan
Learners brainstorm and discuss what students need to grow up healthy and happy. They read about families and situations where learners are not in healthy and happy situations, and the importance of adoption.
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Wishes and Regrets Worksheet
In this past or present instructional activity, students read 17 sentences and decide if each describes a past or present situation. Students respond by writing a sentence with the words "if only" or "I wish."
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Expression With "Get"
In this word meanings worksheet, students read 10 sentences that contain the word "get." Students choose the meaning of "get" from a list of 6 definitions. Students write the correct meaning of the word as it is used in each sentence.
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Past Tense Worksheet
In this ESL past tense verb worksheet, students read 10 sentences and using the verb in parentheses, fill the blank with either the past continuous, past perfect simple, or past perfect continuous.
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Prefix Worksheet
In this prefix worksheet, ESL students read 9 sentences that have an incomplete word. Students choose a prefix from the box and make a complete word to finish the sentence.
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Fighting Corrosion to Save an Ancient Greek Bronze
Study corrosion on bronze statues with a hands-on lesson. As pupils place a penny in water with salt, they observe the changes in the penny throughout a period of a week. They then analyze the pre-conservation and the post-conservation...
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ESL Lesson Plan
Students listen to a story and comprehend, in a manner of writing down the story sentence by sentence, possibly in the exact words. They read their own writings to others and make them understand.
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Serial Taxi
Explore the murder mystery genre through film, discussion, and writing. The plan features several activities centered around a two-minute video that include collaboration, writing, and prediction. After the lesson, individuals write...
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Coca-Cola Ad
Have your class members consider how their lifestyle choices may differ from those of their grandparents when they were younger. After brainstorming and discussing differences in lifestyle, pupils watch a Coca-Cola advertisement that...
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My Shoes
Engage your pupils in short story and short film. Using a still from the film as inspiration, pairs compose short stories, which they later share and compare with other members of the class. They then watch the film and respond to a...
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Everyday
What would you do if you got an extra day every week? Partners share some information about their routines and lives and write compositions about one another based on the information. Each partner tries to guess what the other person...
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To This Day
Bring bullying out into the open with an involved lesson surrounding the animated version of Shane Koyczan's spoken word poem "To This Day." Class members discuss images related to bullying and watch the video without sound. They write a...