Recipes for September, 2009

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Sentence Stretching

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25 Sep 2009 Download PDF
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This is an excellent writing exercise, getting students to increase the length of their sentences and beginning to use clauses.

Write a simple sentence on the board. Students copy it.

Ex. The dog ran. 

Ask the students questions and the students after each question must rewrite the sentence, answering the question.

Ex. Where? The dog ran .............

      What color of dog? The ........ dog ran to his…

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Faces – Who is it?

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24 Sep 2009 Download PDF
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This is a nice game to play to practice describing people (an important language skill). Simply put up this photo. or this one. Print it out if you want students to work in pairs / groups. Students take turns describing the faces and others guess who it is . One guess / person so they have to be sure! Good for…

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Use Play Money!

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22 Sep 2009 Download PDF
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Money makes the world go round and it also makes a teacher's job easy and students very interested!

When you play a game, instead of keeping score with boring marks on the chalkboard, use play money! Download some HERE. Cut and crumple up and put in a big bag. Appoint one student the banker who walks around and allows winning groups/students to…

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Alphabet Organizing

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21 Sep 2009 Download PDF
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  This is a very simple way to brainstorm and practice    vocabulary. Alphabet organizing!

 

Simply use this handy organizer and get the students to list all the vocab for a certain topic (at the beach, at the restaurant, animals, jobs etc...).

Afterwards, you can use this for assessment or simply play a game of scattegories. Students read out their answers, one at a…

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Torn Pictures…

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14 Sep 2009 Download PDF
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This is a wonderfully simple communicative activity.

Get a pile of nice magazine pictures. Next, tear or cut them into twos. Enough halves for the number of students in your classroom.

Then, give each student half a picture. They have to walk around the class describing their picture and finding their torn "match". Once they find their match, they can sit down.

Make sure to make…

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Bragging rights!

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13 Sep 2009 Download PDF
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  Everyone loves to brag, so this lesson recipe works every time with a variety of levels and ages. It also allows students to use their own "lexicon" and thus practice producing language rather than just "acquiring". It really helps fluency.

Write on the board:   My ...... is .......er / more ..... than your.....!

   So what! / Big deal ! / Who cares!

Ask students…

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What’s the weather like in …….?

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7 Sep 2009 Download PDF
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The weather is a standard topic and beyond reviewing the vocabulary (which you can do with this powerpoint I made ) , you can really do it communicatively by getting students to do / practice weather reports!

After going through the vocabulary and asking students "What's the weather like in.....? or ...today? -  Give them a map of their own country.  Ask…

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Guided Writing

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4 Sep 2009 Download PDF
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There are many ways to teach writing but one way that I really think provides enough structure for beginning and developing writers is guided writing.

Give students a text with words missing (usually nouns). In groups or pairs they can complete the text together, guessing the words to be filled in. Better yet, if the story has some context or theme.

If the students are…

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Simon Says!

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3 Sep 2009 Download PDF
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   This is a classic TPR game (Total Physical   Response) and gets the students up and participating, as well as learning actively.

The teacher (or a student(s)) instructs other students to do certain actions.

Ex.  Simon says, "Touch your nose"! or Simon says, "jump up and down".

If the caller doesn't say "Simon says" and only, "Touch your nose" and if a student does that…

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An Activity with a Cell Phone

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3 Sep 2009 Download PDF
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 An Activity with a Cell Phone

 

This activity was done in a workshop for teachers of English working at the DGEP (Direccion General de Escuelas Preparatorias), high school teachers of English.

 

The activity was to show a simple but…

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