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Here is the link to a treasure hunt online which worked really well with my students. Hope it's worth sharing and you'll find it useful.

http://villanovaschoolenglish.pbworks.com/TREASURE-HUNT

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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First, come to class with some pictures you've cut out of a newspaper or magazine. Nice gift ideas. Tell the students it's Christmas and walk around the class giving items. Stop at a student, handing them the picture and say, "Merry Christmas! Students if advanced must reply with more than "you're welcome" and should use one of the ways to say "Thank you'…

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This is a standard lesson / activity for practicing possessives. 1. Put on the board my ..... - mine. your ..... - yours. his ..... - his. her ..... - hers. its ...... - its. our ... - ours your ... - yours their ..... theirs. 2. Prior to the class while students are waiting, go around an scoop up some student's items (put them in a basket / bag). 3. Take out some items…

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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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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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Here'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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This is a nice way to get students to know each other.

 

Make a quick organizer for writing. Have the students fold an A4 "hamburger" like, 4 times. They will have 8 lines for writing when they unfold it.

They must write 8 sentences about themselves, all beginning with "I am....".  Teacher monitors. 

Next, go around the class with students reading their poem in total or…

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Writing storybooks is a great way to reinforce grammar and vocabulary. It also gives students confidence and pride in "producing" something visible and tangible to measure their English language learning experience.

There are several steps to making a storybook and I'll use my own Mr. X's incredible Day/Yesterday as an example. Get the ppt/video here for use with students.

1.  Tell the story…

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