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Beginning Reports Using Cloze: Sports
I teach English to a small group of Chinese early elementary students. I have had great success with this type of oral report to help build student confidence and fluency in speaking before their classmates. An example of the brief report is at the bottom of the data page and students search through the data to fill in the information for their spo...
Level: elementary
Age: 7-10
Type: others
Downloads: 5
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Oral Presentation Scoring Guide
What do you look for when students give oral reports? This rubric helps isolate particular aspects of making an oral presentation. I tell my students that this form makes the presentation evaluation 70 percent objective and 30 percent subjective. For example, we can count how many times a student repeats a word. I either make a tic or actually writ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: Choose
Downloads: 28
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Election 2016 Word Search
This basic word search contains vocabulary related to the 2016 election in the USA. The people are listed (with no spaces between names), some basic issues, and other terms useful for class discussion.
Level: elementary
Age: 9-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6
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Monopoly Terms Word Search
I�ve had success getting my students to talk naturally through game playing. Go Fish, for example. I�m ready to go to the next level and try Monopoly. I�ve prepared this simple word search and I hope my students can catch on and make some deals.
Level: elementary
Age: 6-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6
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Scoring Rubric for Short Notes
College students in China are tested on writing short notes. I�ve developed a scoring rubric I can use to easily mark their practice notes. I have them email me the note in "correct" form. I copy and paste my rubric in my return email to them. I just put x�s next to the error description and mark the errors with highlights and email the whole thing...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: others
Downloads: 5
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Yes I Can Animal Song
This worksheet goes along with the Youtube video, https://youtu.be/_Ir0Mc6Qilo. Each animal from the song is pictured with the lyrics printed beside the picture. You can cut the lyrics into strips and let the students put the lyrics in order for each animal. In addition, some words are left out so students (with or without your help) can fill in th...
Level: elementary
Age: 4-10
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 38
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Three Sheep Songs
Easter season is a good time to teach these three nursery rhymes: Baa Baa Black Sheep, Little Bo Peep, and Mary Had a Little Lamb. There are lots of videos of these songs on Youtube or Youkou (China) and the kids love to sing them. I used this worksheet as a summary review close activity. Good vocabulary building and verb tense practice.
Level: elementary
Age: 3-11
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6
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Pair Activity for Teaching Expressions
I cut the expression into two parts and randomly distribute the parts to my class and send them to the hall to find their partner. When they think they found their partner, they come back and I check to make sure. Once partnered, students figure out what the expression means and then prepare a dialogue using the expression. This activity is great f...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 19
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China�s Relentless Pursuit of Excellence
This is an article I wrote for the Indianapolis Star which details the incredible sacrifice Chinese high schoolers and their parents make for college preparation and acceptance. It also details some of the differences between the life of a Chinese high school senior and a U.S. high school senior.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: article
Downloads: 7
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Three Little Pigs Word Analysis Using WordSift 2
I am presenting this amazing web tool to my ESL colleagues in case they might find it useful. Although I used a simple story as the example, the tool will work with large amounts of text and can be very useful linguistically.
Level: advanced
Age: 5-100
Type: others
Downloads: 2
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