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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

 

Hot hands

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26 Mar 2011 Download PDF
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Two players face each other. One palms up and the other palms down over the other hand. The player with the palms up try to slap the hand with palms down. When successful, the student can ask the other student a question (improvised or from a list). Swap places.…

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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Go fishing!-Listening Activity

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30 Dec 2010 Download PDF
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This is a very easy activity.  Easy to prepare and easy to do.  Howvever, it is very efficient to evaluate sts listening skills and to get some creativity in the listening area in your class.  I actually modified it from another activity I read in this site posted by David.

Objective:  To evaluate sts listening skills by picking out words from a song.   

Steps:

1.  Choose a song with vocabulary that suits your…

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After teaching grammar

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11 Dec 2010 Download PDF
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We all know there is no way to teach grammar efficiently without being systematic.  We OUGHT to teach grammar systematically.  For example,

PAST SIMPLE

Explain in native tongue the tense and give the structure

Positive: Subject+verb+complement.

Negative: Subject+didn't+verb+complement

Questions: Did+subject+verb+complement.

Try it, and you will get great results.  However, they need to practice as soon as you teach it.  Therefore, here are the steps to do after teaching grammar.

1. Teach grammar,

2. Ask for examples from students.  (you…

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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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THEATRE, a higly motivating enriching task

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18 May 2010 Download PDF
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Our dearest playwright SHAKESPEARE wrote in his play As You Like It, this:

"All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages".

Maybe due to his quote, maybe because I love theatre and performing plays…

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What did I do?

In: All Ages & Levels| Business| Elementary| Kindergarten| Middle School| Recipe

30 Apr 2010 Download PDF
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A great way to start a class concentrating on the simple past.

I usually engage everyone in a friendly chat, just to get them ready for the start of the lesson, then, when I know they are concentrated on me, I walk out of the classroom.

Seconds later (after the chatter has died down a little - 'where's he gone?') I knock loudly on the door, then open the door, wave to…

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Gossip Girl and Reported Speech

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18 Mar 2010 Download PDF
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Hello,

      I’d like to share my idea to present reported speech for the first time in the classroom. It can be used with all level students. You just have to modify it according to the level.

 

     It is a fun way of teaching reported speech. Ideally it is the best…

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