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APARTMENT HUNTING
I teach adult learners in Beijing, China. So 99 of my materials will always be in that context. But they are easily changed for other frames of reference. This one focuses on a recent college graduate getting his/her first apartment and the decision process involved. It introduces prioritizing, amenities, choices, advertising, calling for informati...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 20
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ONCE UPON A TIME ---- GROUP ACTIVITY WRITING FAIRYTALES
I teach adults in Beijing. I try to put as many things as possible into a familiar frame of reference for my students. I also try to use as many FREE things as I can. SO - I use A LOT of pictures from newspapers and magazines. Tons. For this lesson, you will need to gather around 75 random pictures from newspapers and magazines. I have my Go-To pac...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 36
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FANTASY VACATION - PHRASAL VERBS
This activity uses the context of a fantasy vacation to teach phrasal verbs related to travel. In the first part, students see if they can identify which phrasal verb to use based on definition. In the second part, in pairs they plan a fantasy vacation and use as many of the phrasal verbs as possible. It is a competition. They can use them more tha...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 35
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LESSON & ACTIVITY PLANNING OVERVIEW/SEMINAR - PART 1 OF 2
I was recently invited to give a 3-hour summary/overview seminar on activity/lesson planning to a group of newly minted ESL teachers. I was asked to fill 3 hours of time, including practice time. The end result is the attached lesson plan with handouts. I�m not sure if anybody can use this -- maybe some of you are supervisors who occasionally need ...
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 17
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MINIMAL PAIRS - PRONUNCIATION PRACTICE
I teach adult learners in Beijing, China. The accent in northern China is much different than southern China (I also taught in Shanghai for 2 years.) This sheet requires Student A to read a list to Student B. Student B will write the numbers of the words that are a like in separate columns. For example: If the listening student thinks that words 1 ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 8
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INTERMEDIATE BUSINESS ENGLISH - JOB AND WORK DETAILS - LESSON 2 OF 2
This is the Part 2 of 2 -- The first half of the lesson by the same name has already been uploaded. This is the next installment of the business course I am designing to be used primarily for corporate clients in the Beijing area. This lesson incorporates practice moving quickly and correctly between past and present tenses, sequencing, talking abo...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 19
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HIGH INTERMEDIATE - ADVANCED BUSINESS ENGLISH - IT�S ALL IN HOW YOU SAY IT (WRITING EFFECTIVE EMAILS)
Hi! This is the next installment in my Business English series. This one is on effective email writing. Several activities including: Pair work to discuss their speculation on a list of potential best practices, practice simplifying sentences into concise bits of information, then a writing assignment to compose emails addressing assorted problems....
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 47
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IN THE NEWS --- HARD/SOFT NEWS
I teach adults in China. I try to put as many things as possible into a familiar context. This lesson is designed to use readily available (and free!) materials ~~ primarily, pictures collected over a couple of weeks from the newspaper. Anything interesting, colorful, about as many types of news reports as possible. This is the only material not in...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 15
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INTERMEDIATE BUSINESS ENGLISH - PRESENTING A COMPANY - LESSON 1 OF 2
This is Lesson 4-A in the Business English series I am creating for use in the Beijing area. This unit focuses on summarizing information about a company and presenting it. The homework (optional) is to be used in Lesson 2 of 2. The second part of this (2 of 2) will be coming within the next day or so.
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 32
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INTERMEDIATE BUSINESS ENGLISH - WHAT DO YOU DO? 2 OF 2
This is Part 2 of the lesson by the same name uploaded just a few days ago. The core of this activity is to use everything learned in the first lesson and reinforced by the homework (if used). Main activity consists of cultural awareness in an international office environment, knowing what is and is not ok to discuss with coworkers, getting to know...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 23
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BLUE COLLAR VS WHITE COLLAR - SOCIAL ISSUES & VOCAB IN CONTEXT - PART 2 OF 2
Suitable for high Intermediate to Advanced. This is a 2-part ppt (sorry, the pictures killed me) on the topic of Blue Collar Vs. White Collar jobs in America -- pros & cons of each, stigmas, history, trends. I teach in China, so there is one single slide (easily removed) tying the topic to China, bu...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Downloads: 22
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WELCOME TO BURNING MAN -- TEACHING VOCAB VIA CONTEXT - PART 2 OF 6
First, let me apologize for there being SO many separate ppts. The file limits are harsh sometimes. I used this with a group of Chinese students to teach vocabulary in context via an introduction of Burning Man. My students really got into it and asked a ton of questions. Towards the end, I divided ...
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Downloads: 12
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HIGH INTERMEDIATE TO ADVANCED BUSINESS ENGLISH - CUSTOMER SERVICE AND PRODUCT QUALITY SURVEYS - LESSON 1 OF 2
I am in the process of creating a 126-lesson Business English course for use in Bejing. This is the latest in the series. However, most lessons are easily adapted for use in other countries. NOTE: This is being uploaded as a PPT simply because it was too large to be uploaded as a printable document....
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Downloads: 15
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HIGH INTERMEDIATE TO ADVANCED BUSINESS ENGLISH - SPEAKING ACTIVITY - CONDITIONALS, SPECULATION, DEGREES OF CERTAINTY
This is a 13-slide activity. Premise is a dream-job opportunity. Student must select one job from several, and then explain the choice. Grammar points needed for the discussion (conditionals, speculation, degrees of certainty, negation) are reviewed in the early slides and have reinforcement activit...
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Downloads: 63
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WEATHER, SEASONS, TIMES OF DAY, TEMPERATURES - PART 5 OF 5
First, let me apologize for there being 5 parts to this. Once again, the file limits have bitten me in the backside! This lesson is a format I�ve been using for about 4 yrs, and it has always worked well for me. I usually just do it on the board, but decided to put it into a ppt for larger classes. ...
Level: elementary
Age: 13-100
Downloads: 19
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POLITE REQUESTS -- STRUCTURE AND PRACTICE
This is a two-part activity -- The first part is this PPT. The second part is a worksheet that allows the students to continue with the grammar they have learned in the ppt. The slides present a breakdown of how polite requests are structured, and why. Then, the final slides provide an A/B convers...
Level: elementary
Age: 15-100
Downloads: 21
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WELCOME TO BURNING MAN -- TEACHING VOCAB VIA CONTEXT - PART 5 OF 6
First, let me apologize for there being SO many separate ppts. The file limits are harsh sometimes. I used this with a group of Chinese students to teach vocabulary in context via an introduction of Burning Man. My students really got into it and asked a ton of questions. Towards the end, I divided ...
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Downloads: 11
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WEATHER, SEASONS, TIMES OF DAY, TEMPERATURES - PART 1 OF 5
First, let me apologize for there being 5 parts to this. Once again, the file limits have bitten me in the backside! This lesson is a format I�ve been using for about 4 yrs, and it has always worked well for me. I usually just do it on the board, but decided to put it into a ppt for larger classes. ...
Level: elementary
Age: 13-100
Downloads: 14
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VOCABULARY IN CONTEXT -- WEATHER -- TORNADOES -- PART 2 OF 2
I don�t know about other countries, but in China we foreign teachers are forevermore tasked with "English Corner" -- it tends to be an hour-long dog & pony show about pretty much anything we choose. I often use mine to teach vocabulary in context and to do cultural exchange.
This PPT is about t...
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
Downloads: 24
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BEGINNER LEVEL - TIMES OF LIFE & DESCRIBING PEOPLE - PART 1 OF 2
This is designed to follow (but can also be independent of) my ppt lesson on weather. In this ppt, students get vocabulary about the stages of life and ways to describe people. I tried to include enough pictures with enough variety to give them a chance to use all new vocabulary. Unfortunately, beca...
Level: elementary
Age: 13-100
Downloads: 17
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