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Lessons in a Can Upgrade

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30 Nov 2011 Download PDF
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Classroom labeling

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23 Jul 2011 Download PDF
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This is a great idea for the start of the year. 

Give each group of students some card board strips of paper. Also some tape. 

Students brainstorm the names of all things in the classroom (in English!). 

Then, ask them to go tape the names up around the classroom. First come, first server.

After, take up the names. Student will learn the words over time, as they see them in class and use them. 

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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.

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Write the dialogue

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30 Apr 2011 Download PDF
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It would be great to get students working in teams to write up a dialogue for this cool google doodle video a la Charlie Chaplin. Then play the video as students read out/perform their dialogue.

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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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Message in the air

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25 Mar 2011 Download PDF
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Great activity to revise VOCABULARY from previous classes.

Ask students to think of a word they've learned previously. They have to make sure they know how to write it.

Students come to the front of the class and write the word in the air using his index finger. Then, students write down they word and say it out loud. The student who wrote the word in the air gets 1 point for…

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The Yes/No Game

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11 Feb 2011 Download PDF
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A simple but fun quick-fire game to liven up a class or as a reward in the final segment of a language lesson.  A student comes to the front of the class, the students choose a topic (for example, 'Your last holiday', 'Your favourite food' etc), then the class fire questions to the student.  The student has to answer the questions but cannot say the words either 'YES' or 'NO'. …

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Descriptive Essays: Writing Enough Content

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9 Feb 2011 Download PDF
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Students often have problems with coming up with enough details for their examples when writing descriptive or even persuasive essays. So I came up with this exercise to teach them how to write enough content that the reader understands their examples. 

I start by writing this sentence on the board:

NLP is one of the most effective methods of improving your life by breaking bad habits and developing new skills.

Tell student that…

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Words – Collocations

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4 Feb 2011 Download PDF
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wordsThis recipe is for intermediate or higher levels. But the video can be used for all levels really. This video is superb! It has verbs linked to nouns in categories (Play / Blow etc... see the worksheet). Watch the video first and see if students can find the verbs that are shown in context. Next, watch again and have them complete the worksheet. Finally -…

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Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Videos Overview

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16 Jan 2011 Download PDF
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Hi, these are great short videos all under 4 minutes, to overview the civil rights era in the USA during the late 1950's up to the mid 1960's.  It finishes with MLK jr's famous "I Have a Dream Speech." (17 minutes)

These are for discussion purposes to build background knowledge for why we celebrate MLK Day.  Then we will read the last 2 minutes of his speech that i googled from…

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