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Writing Activities Paint Chip Essay Writing I had been experiencing trouble with teaching essay writing for some reason this year. I had seen a video from "TeachingChannel" about using paint chips from the hardware store to teach suffixes, prefixes and root words. This got me to thinking about other uses for this free, colorful resource. I started brainstorming about ways to better illustrate…

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This is a fun follow-up speaking activity for practising superlatives. Make cards with superlative form of personality adjectives. The number of cards depends on the number of the students in the class. Distribute the cards so that each student has one. They should answer the question: 'Who's the ... student in the class?' following the format: I think/believe/hold that the ... student in

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22 Apr 2013

This is an easy "video" lesson.    

Ask students to brainstorm all the things / buildings that could be called "home". Then show the video and see how many they got correct. Show again, pausing and review all the names for these things people all over the world call "home". 

Common Core Technical Writing for Science Class

 

A webpage at 

    http://www.ebstc.org/TechLit/hsst/ccss.themes.prac.html

called "Common Core Technical Writing for Science Class"

first gives a brief strategic overview of the important but

demanding new commitment to usability and effective nonfiction

writing in the Common Core State Standards, then summarizes

6 key implementation themes that recur throughout the standards,

then suggests (with supporting links) ways to focus writing 

activities that already occur in many science classses (lab 

instructions, descriptions, notes, project abstracts…

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A good game for large classes and for reviewing vocabulary lessons. 1. Prepare a list of review vocabulary words. 2. Write each word on two small pieces of paper. That means writing the word twice, once on each paper. 3. Organize the pieces like bundles, 2 bundles, 2 sets of identical words. 4. Divide the class into 2 teams. get them to make creative team names. 5. Distribute each list of words to both teams…

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toilet paperThis activity is used as a "getting to know you", icebreaker on the first day of class. 1. Teacher takes the toilet paper roll and takes several squares of toilet paper, then hands the roll of toilet paper to a student. The teacher tells the student to take some, more than three. 2. After everybody in the class has some paper, we count the squares we have…

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Take your time, do not make hasty conclusions about the following valuable books on ESL activities and read the description of them on amazon.com.
Let me know your particular interest in issues of teaching and perhaps learning English. I may have some more really new helpful information for you.

700 Classroom Activities [Paperback], D. Seymour (author), 156 pages, 2005

featured resourceEFL Classroom 2.0 , our sister site, has posted a nice series of articles called: Featured Resources. You'll find lots of great resources with ideas on using them. Instant downloads…

This is a great game to play with large classes

Ideal if you are in Korea.

Make teams according to rows. Tell each row to make a paper fish. You place each fish between the rows. They should all be at the back facing the front. They should also be in the same position.  Using the tile on the floor you can line them up at the starting line…

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The Feather Game

Make a prop (for this one I used a paper feather) and have Ss pass it around while the T closes their eyes and counts down from 20. 

Then the T must find the feather with CCQs: Who, Where, Does, Do?

- attributed to Nelson Beard. 


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