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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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UPPER INTERMEDIATE SALON - TRANSLATION RACE
This is a game to allow upper intermediate students to practice translation of sentences with varying sentence structures. This provides listening practice with quick thinking in the target language. Goes from native language to learned language, then from learned language to native language. Structured as a competition between minimum of two teams...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 12
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COMPARATIVES - SUPERLATIVES RACE
This lesson requires a little preparation on your part, but this is a lesson you will be able to use over and over for the rest of your teaching career. I make constant use of visuals and free resources -- my favorite by far is pictures from newspapers and magazines. For this lesson, I collected pictures from the newspaper over the course of about ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 22
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SENTENCE SCRAMBLE RACE
This is the easiest class you will teach all year. This is my go-to when I have had a hectic day without a lot of prep time. This takes about 20 minutes max to get ready. You need a complete set of sentence fragment strips -- provided in this sheet -- for each team. Works best with teams of 3 or more. Have the two teams complete to match the two ha...
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 27
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INTERMEDIATE BUSINESS ENGLISH - MAKING ARRANGEMENTS - LESSON 1 OF 2
This is the next installment in the Business English course I am designing. This is Lesson 3, Part 1 of 2. This lesson introduces phrasal verbs to be used in making arrangements and travel plans. Then students work together to create dialog with target vocabulary, then present it in a competition format. Homework assignment optional, but will be us...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 22
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SENTENCE BUILDING DICE GAME
This lesson uses dice and word lists numbered 1-6, student rolls, then makes a sentence out of that word. Sounds easy? But wait! When they get a little to comfy, you slip in another list and a second die. Then a third, fourth, fifth. Then suddenly change lists in the middle of a sentence. Or change partners. Anything to keep them thinking really fa...
Level: elementary
Age: 14-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 28
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LESSON & ACTIVITY PLANNING OVERVIEW/SEMINAR - PART 2 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: others
Downloads: 13
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