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Lessons in a Can Upgrade

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30 Nov 2011 Download PDF
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Lessons in a Can

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5 May 2011 Download PDF
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I've collected 100+ multi media lessons full of links and resources to download. Lessons in a Can.

Take a look - many levels and a recipe for each one

 

Write the dialogue

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30 Apr 2011 Download PDF
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It would be great to get students working in teams to write up a dialogue for this cool google doodle video a la Charlie Chaplin. Then play the video as students read out/perform their dialogue.

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Language Area!

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25 Mar 2011 Download PDF
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Sometimes it is really difficult to avoid students talk in their mother tongue, so usually I choose a corner of the whiteboard and draw a small circle and write Portuguese Area. So if a students want to say anything that he/she can't say in English he/she has to stand up and go to the Portuguese Area. This is interesting because students don't want to stand up all the time in…

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The Yes/No Game

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11 Feb 2011 Download PDF
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A simple but fun quick-fire game to liven up a class or as a reward in the final segment of a language lesson.  A student comes to the front of the class, the students choose a topic (for example, 'Your last holiday', 'Your favourite food' etc), then the class fire questions to the student.  The student has to answer the questions but cannot say the words either 'YES' or 'NO'. …

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Descriptive Essays: Writing Enough Content

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9 Feb 2011 Download PDF
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Students often have problems with coming up with enough details for their examples when writing descriptive or even persuasive essays. So I came up with this exercise to teach them how to write enough content that the reader understands their examples. 

I start by writing this sentence on the board:

NLP is one of the most effective methods of improving your life by breaking bad habits and developing new skills.

Tell student that…

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Words – Collocations

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4 Feb 2011 Download PDF
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wordsThis recipe is for intermediate or higher levels. But the video can be used for all levels really. This video is superb! It has verbs linked to nouns in categories (Play / Blow etc... see the worksheet). Watch the video first and see if students can find the verbs that are shown in context. Next, watch again and have them complete the worksheet. Finally -…

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Dictagloss

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4 Jan 2011 Download PDF
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Dictagloss is an activity that works with many short texts/passages. I've used it over the years and it seems to motivate and "work" because there is a built in task -- the task of reconstructing the original text.

1.Let students listen to you or a higher level student read a selected text or story. (don't make it too long, depends on the level but I'd say no more than…

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Running Dictation

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4 Jan 2011 Download PDF
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# 96 Running Dictation

This activity can be used with any level - just use an appropriate text. It is great for introducing a text that you will study in depth through intensive reading. Or it can also be used to finish off a lesson/unit and review the text again...

Basically, you have to do 4 things.

1. Divide the class into…

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Disappearing Dialogue

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13 Jul 2010 Download PDF
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I got this one from EFL Classroom 2.0. There is a ppt you can use to do dialogues which is cool. 

 

Disappearing dialogues is a very much used language teaching technique

1. Elicit and write the dialogue. Or use a prepared dialogue.


2. Students practice in pairs.

 

3. Once they are comfortable with the dialogue. Disappear some parts. Continue disappearing more...

 

4. Rebuild the dialogue together to…

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