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Great Toy Robbery

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

10 Dec 2009 Download PDF
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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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Map it – Vocab. Technique

In: All Ages & Levels| Recipe

8 Dec 2009 Download PDF
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   I learned this just recently in a staff workshop (shows the power of peer learning/sharing!). thanks Rona!

 

Whatever vocabulary list / word bank you have - you can map it! Yes, just ask the students to draw a local map or a floor plan of a house or even a zoo layout.

Next, ask the students to put each vocab item in a particular…

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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.

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Story Dominoes

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

25 Nov 2009 Download PDF
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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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Accents

In: Advanced| Intermediate| Recipe

25 Nov 2009 Download PDF
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Exposing students to a wide range of accents of both native and second language speakers is a recipe that must be cooked up for intermediate and advanced learners.

One great place for this would be The Speech Accent Archive . There you can choose mp3 samples from speakers all over the world. They all read the same paragraph so students can just…

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SCC – Student Created Content

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23 Nov 2009 Download PDF
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I'm a big fan of student created content. That's my own term for resources which aren't from the textbook but from the student's own aprior knowledge, world and mind. Personalized teaching. Students create the materials for learning/practicing English. In doing so, they are more interested in the topic because it is from themselves and also they have the necessary context to prompt output / speech. Find many examples by clicking…

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Is this yours? Possessives.

In: Beginner| Elementary| False Beginner| Kindergarten| Middle School| Recipe

8 Oct 2009 Download PDF
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This is a standard lesson / activity for practicing possessives. 1. Put on the board my ..... - mine. your ..... - yours. his ..... - his. her ..... - hers. its ...... - its. our ... - ours your ... - yours their ..... theirs. 2. Prior to the class while students are waiting, go around an scoop up some student's items (put them in a basket / bag). 3. Take out some items…

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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

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

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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