Recipes under the ‘Elementary’ Category
Sentence Stretching
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25 Sep 2009
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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Alphabet Organizing
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21 Sep 2009
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
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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Guided Writing
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4 Sep 2009
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 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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The Gumball Game (Prepositions of Motion)
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3 Sep 2009"I dropped my gumball, and it went . . . . ."
Required items:
1) Index cards, or pieces of paper
2) A large drawing surface (whiteboard, blackboard, a big piece of paper)
This is a fun activity to help students use the prepositions of motion they already know.
First, get a pile of index cards (preferably ones that you cannot see through). Divide the cards into two piles --- one pile will be prepositions…
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iLearner.eu – Teaching English with Technology
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2 Sep 2009Our Online Learning Center (OLC) allows learners to complete interactive English quizzes and enables the teacher to review his/her students’ attempts and control the learning process.
- Over 260 (and growing) ready-to-use grammar and vocabulary exercises.
- Levels: Elementary – Intermediate.
- Covers all the grammar students need for international exams, such as the PET and FCE.
- Supplements any course, both in a public school or a private language school.
- Suitable for one-on-one and distant teaching.
- FREE.
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Foldables are a great way to make your lessons "active" and also more about fostering thinking skills.
They can be of all sorts. Just start with a piece (or pieces) of paper and get the students folding and labeling. Like HERE.
They can be as elaborate as Accordion Books or as simple as a 4 square graphic organizer. Go
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Describing People from Memory Information Gap
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27 Aug 2009Here's a way to practice vocabulary and sentences related to describing facial and body features, but it can be modified to include clothing and colour vocabulary, too.
First, practice the vocabulary and language: Stand at the front with a whiteboard and marker, and secretly draw a figure on the whiteboard to prompt the target language (e.g. "He is tall," "She is wearing a red blouse," "He has blue glasses," "He has…
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Following Instructions from a Special Guest on Video
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27 Aug 2009Here's an activity that's a fun way for students to practice listening to instructions and following them. All you need is a large TV in your classroom that can play videos, and a friend or family member from "back home" willing to help out.
Explain to students that you have a "special guest" who's going to help us a bit later, but we need to practice first. Use this practice time…
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