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Lessons in a Can Upgrade
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30 Nov 2011
Lessons in a Can, 120+ fully described and leveled multi media lessons with downloads, printables, links is now available to all lifetime supporters of EFL Classroom 2.0
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Here's a pdf sample of the pages (links not working).
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Write the dialogue
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30 Apr 2011It 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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The Yes/No Game
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11 Feb 2011Overview:
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 2011Students 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
This 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.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Videos Overview
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16 Jan 2011Hi, 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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Dictagloss
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4 Jan 2011Dictagloss is an activity that works with many short texts/passages. I've used it over the years and it seems to motivate and "work" because there is a built in task -- the task of reconstructing the original text.
1.Let students listen to you or a higher level student read a selected text or story. (don't make it too long, depends on the level but I'd say no more than…
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Running Dictation
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4 Jan 2011
# 96 Running Dictation
This activity can be used with any level - just use an appropriate text. It is great for introducing a text that you will study in depth through intensive reading. Or it can also be used to finish off a lesson/unit and review the text again...
Basically, you have to do 4 things.
1. Divide the class into…
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Disappearing Dialogue
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13 Jul 2010I got this one from EFL Classroom 2.0. There is a ppt you can use to do dialogues which is cool.
Disappearing dialogues is a very much used language teaching technique
1. Elicit and write the dialogue. Or use a prepared dialogue.
2. Students practice in pairs.
3. Once they are comfortable with the dialogue. Disappear some parts. Continue disappearing more...
4. Rebuild the dialogue together to…
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Organize your own Music Festival (Future tenses and comperatives/superlatives)
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5 Apr 2010Hi all,
This lesson is ideal for pre/intermediate classes to practice both future tense and comperatives/superlatives.
First start with a quick discussion on music and the Ss's favourite singers or bands etc.
Then, tell them they're going to organize their own music festival- a very special one to their own taste. Give them the following points to think about preferably in pairs. (the focus is on the future tense)
-What kind of a music…
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