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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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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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Extensive Reading: Voice Diary


This recipe works best if you combine it with Extensive Reading. It builds confidence and teaches reading, speaking, and listening
Encourage your students to make a voice diary with their cell phones. Its listed under the “Voice Memo” Feature. First you need to provide a high interest story to your students.


1.    Have them read the story once quietly
2.  …

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First, hand out a list of sixteen homophone pairs to your students, such as tale and tail, night and knight, ect. These lists can be readily found online or you can make your own. You might need to take some time to explain or review the meanings of words on the list. Next, give each student a standard 8.5 X 11 inch (A4) sheet of paper.  Folded in half four…

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The Society for Technical Communication's award-winning 

Technical Literacy Project adapts many

real-world science instructions and descriptions for use in

high-school science classes.  These cases gradually build

student writing skills by revising, correcting, or expanding

scaffolded, sequenced text samples adapted from practical

materials outside the classroom.  

Such structured technical-writing practice is especially 

helpful for English language learners because:

 

     

     

  • It focuses everyone's attention on the TEXT SIGNALS

     

    (but, because, on the other hand) that ELL students often

    ignore or underuse

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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I really think it great when a teacher gets the students interested in the world and what's happening there.

You can use the newspaper in many ways but one easy way is to ask a student each day to begin class by reporting 3 things from the news. A new student each day. Ask questions afterwards and have the student write the 3 main…

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It isn't easy to learn so many names so fast! Here are some tips for remembering student names ( a must because when you use a student's name, studies show they learn better/quicker! just by hearing their name!)

1.  For the first month use name tags/name cards. Make them decorative. Here are some really neat ones you can download.

2.  Use a seating…

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Provide students with a questionnaire like this one:

Find someone who...

1) has travelled to New York. ________

2) has been on TV. ______

3) has met a famous person. ______

etc....

 

The students are supposed to stand up and go around the classroom asking their classmates until someone has done so and if this is the case, his/her name should appear next to the question. Once a student finds a classmate for each question, the…

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This video presentation I made, has many recipes and ideas for teachers.

All the activities are basic EFL activities that help teachers personalize lesson content and allow students to talk and learn English through their own lives and experiences. This is a crucial part of the language acquisition process....

 

Enjoy the viewing and find more like this on EFL Classroom 2.0…

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