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Life event--past tense practice
This is an information gap activity. Students can practice using past tense and read years. Students work in pairs (A & B) and they need to read the life event of a certain person to fill in the missing year.
Students can practice speaking and exchanging information. It can be a review activity of past tense for 5 to 10 minutes.
Level: elementary
Age: 15-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 7
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Weather forecast
Students do a weather forecast after watching a video of it. Students work in groups and draw a map which can be an unreal place to make this activity more interesting. Students then practice using the example scripts to talk about the weather in their group. Then, they need to present to the class. For young learners, they really enjoy creating th...
Level: elementary
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 25
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Frequency adverbs (review)
Teachers can use the activity cards to review frequency adverbs. Students need to be able to use "always," "often," "sometimes," "never" according to the description of the cards. Then, students can work with a partner and tell their partner how often the character does something on the card. In order to practice more, students can change different...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 46
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Weather and clothing
The lesson plan has couple of ideas to combine weather and clothing since weather itself can�t be a long lesson. I have tried this lesson plan with my adult students and they really like it. They can interact with other students a lot and use what they have learned to describe people�s outfits.
Level: elementary
Age: 16-100
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 13
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Selling a special job
Teachers may cut these cards and give every student one card. The idea is that students need to be salespeople to sell the job they have. They must sell their job and buy a job. Therefore, students need to think advantages for the job they have. It�s a good speaking activity, and my adult students enjoyed it a lot :) Hope you find it useful.
Level: elementary
Age: 16-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 13
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Comparing clothing prices and dialogue
This activity has two parts. Teachers can give students worksheet to compare clothing prices. Then, students use this worksheet to practice a very daily life conversation written by me and my American friend. Students work with different partners until they can read the dialogue fluently. The second part of the activity is that students need to wor...
Level: elementary
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 37
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Asking and comparing prices (clothing)
Teachers can use this worksheet to review clothing items. After teaching how to ask price, students are divided into two big teams because there are two different stores selling same items. Then, students work in pairs (A and B) and ask each other the prices.
Then, re-pair up students so they can compare and ask prices with another team (differ...
Level: elementary
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 86
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Talk about Music
I did this lesson for a 1.5hr class. My adults students really enjoyed it because they learned and listened to different types of music. If the time is permitted, teachers may talk about TV shows and genres of movies. My students liked my last activity which is to interview a Star :)
Level: elementary
Age: 18-100
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 8
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How to order a subway sandwich?
I noticed that students may kind of know how to order food in a restaurant, but they have no idea how to order a sandwich. In the handout, I listed the procedures and words that students can learn to order a sandwich (Subway as an example. After talking about the words, students can role-play with teacher and other students.
Level: elementary
Age: 14-100
Type: others
Downloads: 38
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Describing people (name, age, height, weight, and emotion)
Teachers can just cut the pictures with descriptions of the person. Students work in pairs to ask each other in order to get the complete information. They can use questions like "what�s her/his name? How old is she/he? What�s her height and weight, and how does he/she feel?" Teachers can ask students to practice describing the person by themselves...
Level: elementary
Age: 14-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 21
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Going Travelling in the USA
Materials that teachers need to prepare are at least 3 real airline information (basic information: stops, time, and rates), at least 3 kinds of accommodations, and authentic travelling brochures if any. Post the information on the wall or make them available on tables so everyone can see easily.
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Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
Downloads: 8
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