Recipes Tagged ‘grammar’
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
Is this yours? Possessives.
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Sentence Stretching
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25 Sep 2009
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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Everyone loves to brag, so this lesson recipe works every time with a variety of levels and ages. It also allows students to use their own "lexicon" and thus practice producing language rather than just "acquiring". It really helps fluency.
Write on the board: My ...... is .......er / more ..... than your.....!
So what! / Big deal ! / Who cares!
Ask students…
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iLearner.eu – Teaching English with Technology
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2 Sep 2009Our Online Learning Center (OLC) allows learners to complete interactive English quizzes and enables the teacher to review his/her students’ attempts and control the learning process.
- Over 260 (and growing) ready-to-use grammar and vocabulary exercises.
- Levels: Elementary – Intermediate.
- Covers all the grammar students need for international exams, such as the PET and FCE.
- Supplements any course, both in a public school or a private language school.
- Suitable for one-on-one and distant teaching.
- FREE.
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Finish it!
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21 Aug 2009
This discussion activity really ceaches students to listen to each other.
Start the activity by making statements for the class but "coughing / mumbling or saying "blablabla". Ex. I went to the &&)))*** last night. Students ask for clarification using the prompt on the board.
Low: Excuse me, what did you say?
High: Excuse me but who/what/where/when/ ..........?
The teacher then repeats the statement but finishing it…
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Grammar Poems
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31 Jul 2009Grammar poems are ways for students to review lesson content and also express themselves and start really noticing language. Students that notice language really develop into great language learners.
Write the grammar poem outline on the board and do a grammar poem together as a class. Here is one example. Get others HERE on EFL Classroom 2.0 but you can just change the title to suit your…
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Unfortunately / Fortunately
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This is great for practicing past participles and the present progressive tense.
Arrange group into a large circle with one person in the middle. The leader will prompt with the phrase Have you ever ? The person in the middle will finish the phrase. Example: Have you ever had candy bars for breakfast? Each of the people in the circle that has done what the person in the middle has…
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