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David
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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. 

Next: why not give each group a chart sized piece of paper and get them to make a month calendar. Put everyone’s birthday’s on it and use it throughout the year! 

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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 each player who got the word right and the players who get it right get 1 point too. 

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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’.  As soon as they do, THEY ARE OUT!  Then the next student takes a turn.

Ingredients:

• A group of students – 1 at the front at a time, the rest play the roles of questioners
• That’s all

Instructions:

1) Explain the rules

2) Call for a volunteer

3) Start the game

You can vary the speed and difficulty of the topic depending on the material you have been covering and the ability of the class.  This game is guaranteed to engage and enliven and group of students!

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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 this is the first sentence of a paragraph in an essay about NLP. Ask them what else they want to know about NLP. As students ask questions, I write more sentences answering those questions and then elicit more questions until students say that they have no more questions and are satisfied by the information in the paragraph.

For example, many students ask, “How does NLP work?” So I might write, “NLP is a method of programming yourself or others using certain words or gestures.” When they say they still don’t get it, I add “It’s something like hypnotism” Or I ask, “Would you like an example?” and then give them an example.

After the students feel the paragraph is complete, I review what questions they had and how they were answered. It really helps students think about the reader and what questions a reader has about their own writing.

Obviously you could use any topic area instead of NLP as long as its something the students won’t know a lot about. Pick an obscure side of a hobby for example.

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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 – watch a third time, pausing the video and taking up the answers for each verb.

You might get Ss to brainstorm afterwards all the collocations for some popular verbs (get / make / cut / do etc…).

Handout

Answer Key

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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 somewhere, about 1.5 pages.

Then we will discuss and compare discrimination and racism in USA vs. home countries.

 
1. Civil Rights _Eyes on the Prize1 Intro/Overview 2:21min.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHonvu-HxqE
 
2.  Ingram Park and Civil Rights Movement Mr. Mead History 3 min.
 
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N7C7IJl1Vo
 
 
3. KKK Then and Now National Geographic 2 min.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CTG58jIlNA
 
4.  LIttle Rock Nine Charly Palmer- Oct Gallery 3:52
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBrMgj3gv68
 
5.  I have a dream speech MLK jr.  17 min.
 
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/martin_luther_king_jr_i_have_a_dream.html

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