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Level – Elementary and Up
Objective – Depending on the level: Vocab. Building (Demographic Country Terms)
Describing a Country
Basic question…
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- Tags: camp, camps, country, geography, map, nationality, project
Extensive Reading: Voice Diary
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12 Jan 2010
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
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1 Jan 2010
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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- Tags: agreement, future, grammar, holidays, new years, resolution
X-mas Gift exchange
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12 Dec 2009
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 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.
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This lesson is simple and a wonderful way to celebrate X-mas.Get more resources/ideas on EFL Classroom's Xmas resource page.
1. Watch The Great Toy Robbery. Put students in pairs and have one watch the screen, the other look away. Partner A describes what he is watching to Partner B who can't see. Switch part way through.
2. Watch…
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Angel vs Devil
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1 Dec 2009
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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Telling stories is great in the classroom. Add a little "imagination" and chance and you have a great recipe!
Story Dominoes is a great concept. Just get a lot of varying pictures. Cut them up and students in groups of three/four, use them to tell "random" stories.
One student turns over a card to begin. Then the next, turns over a card and continues. Lots…
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Is this yours? Possessives.
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Same Sounds Bingo
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8 Oct 2009First, 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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