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Paint Chip Essay Instruction

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7 May 2013
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Writing Activities Paint Chip Essay Writing I had been experiencing trouble with teaching essay writing for some reason this year. I had seen a video from "TeachingChannel" about using paint chips from the hardware store to teach suffixes, prefixes and root words. This got me to thinking about other uses for this free, colorful resource. I started brainstorming about ways to better illustrate…

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Sentence Auction

In: All Ages & Levels

26 Jun 2012

I used to play a game called Sentence Auction. Print up money from your home country and give each group of students the same ammount of money. I used to do $1000 in $10 and $20 bills. Then write a bunch of sentences on the board. Some will be correct, some will contain errors.

The beauty of the game is that you can work in what



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Classroom labeling

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

23 Jul 2011

This is a great idea for the start of the year. 

Give each group of students some card board strips of paper. Also some tape. 

Students brainstorm the names of all things in the classroom (in English!). 

Then, ask them to go tape the names up around the classroom. First come, first server.

After, take up the names. Student will learn the words over time, as they see them in class and use them. 

Next…

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Body writing

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

1 Jun 2011

This 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. …

Write the dialogue

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

30 Apr 2011
It 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.
Find more videos like this on EFL CLASSROOM 2.0


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The Phrase

In: Elementary| False Beginner| Recipe

25 Mar 2011

The teacher elicits some verbs from students (4 or 5 verbs) and writes them on the board. Ex: run-eat-see-fly.

Give students 2 or 3 minutes to write a sentence with all the verbs from the board in the same sequence without adding any other verb except for auxiliaries. Ex: I was running home to eat when I saw a beautiful bird flying.

Students then can mingle and tell each other the sentence…

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Descriptive Essays: Writing Enough Content

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

9 Feb 2011

Students 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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Dictagloss

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4 Jan 2011

Dictagloss 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
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# 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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X-mas Cards

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10 Dec 2009
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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. One caution - make sure you…

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