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Create a Country

In: High School| Intermediate| Middle School| Recipe

4 Feb 2010 Download PDF
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mapLevel – Elementary and Up

 

Objective – Depending on the level: Vocab. Building (Demographic Country Terms)

                    Describing a Country

                    Basic question…

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Extensive Reading: Voice Diary

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12 Jan 2010 Download PDF
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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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New Year’s Resolutions

In: Advanced| High School| Intermediate| Middle School| Recipe| University

1 Jan 2010 Download PDF
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This is a great way to practice the future tense and learn about each other. Adapted from Jill Hadfield's "Communication Games".

 

1. Ask students about their resolutions. Put the target language on the board - "This year, I will / I resolve to / I'm going to ..........

2.  List some of the common resolutions as you discuss.

3.  Students write down 3 resolutions and then…

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X-mas Gift exchange

In: Advanced| False Beginner| High School| Intermediate| Middle School| Recipe| University

12 Dec 2009 Download PDF
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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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X-mas Cards

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10 Dec 2009 Download PDF
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This is a simple idea. Why not have your students make and write nice Christmas cards for each other? Simply use these templates or have them draw their own. First, review how to write a card by doing one as a whole class on the board. This will give them an idea of the appropriate register and vocabulary. One caution - make sure you…

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Angel vs Devil

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1 Dec 2009 Download PDF
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This is a great way for students to practice using sequential transitions (Firstly / Furthermore / last but not least).Great for just speaking practice but also presentation or debate classess.

Provide the class with a list of topics (City living / Exercise / Learning English / being single).  Model whole class. The teacher is the Devil and the students the Angel.

1. The teacher (Devil)…

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Same Sounds Bingo

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

8 Oct 2009 Download PDF
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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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Building Basic Technical Writing Skills

In: All Ages & Levels| Business| High School| Recipe

3 Oct 2009 Download PDF
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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



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Sentence Stretching

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25 Sep 2009 Download PDF
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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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Alphabet Organizing

In: All Ages & Levels| Elementary| High School| Middle School| Recipe

21 Sep 2009 Download PDF
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  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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