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31 May 2012One great recipe is to play a video with vocabulary content. Not flashcards but something real and beautiful. Then, students either write or speak or brainstorm all the vocabulary from the video in the specific category you mention.
An example is the video Forgotten. Play and get students to list all the places in the house. Then play again, pausing and eliciting the parts of the house.
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19 May 2012
Everyone loves movies!
This is a great idea and a great way to have a very light but powerful lesson.
1. Write some names of movies on the board. Then give students 4 hints about one movie. See if they can guess. Continue until all are off the board.
2. Students have 2 minutes to think of all the movie titles possible. One person is… In: Beginner| Elementary| False Beginner| High School| Intermediate| Middle School| Recipe
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5 May 2012
This is a real recipe! Students use English for a real purpose, explaining to a partner or fellow group members, how to do something.
I usually start listing numbers on the board and writing a title - How to .................
I ask students to explain the steps of how to do some simple activity. ie. tie your shoe, boil an egg, get money from a bank machine, mail a letter…
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1 Jun 2011This idea works well in pairs. Model in front of the class first.
1. Write numbers or letters on the back of a student/classmate by using your finger.
2. The classmate guesses the number/letter.
3. Make it more advanced. Larger numbers / words.
You can also do a variation of this by doing the same on the palm of the person.
Really "visceral" and kinesthetic way of teaching basic content. …
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30 Apr 2011What's a teaching recipe? It's an idea teachers can use to make a lesson. Short or detailed. Add your own and help out your fellow teachers!

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