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CLOTHES AND FASHION
For this lesson you will need to collect some pictures from fashion magazines or other sources where you can see fully the clothes the people are wearing. Obviously, color pictures work best. Be sure to collect a wide variety including various colors, patterns, styles, functions. This lesson is very heavy on Student Talk Time - easily 80+ percent -...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 33
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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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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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INTERMEDIATE BUSINESS ENGLISH - MAKING MY MOVE (STARTING A BUSINESS) - LESSON 1 OF 2
HI! This is lesson 12-A of my Business English series. This lesson facilitates practice moving quickly and accurately between verb tenses in the context of deciding what kind of business to go into. There�s a mind map exercise for pairs, then pair work to review a sample resume and make recommendations of what kind of business that person should op...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 19
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INTERMEDIATE BUSINESS ENGLISH - HOW ARE THEY DOING (COMPANY PERFORMANCE) - LESSON 1 OF 2
This is Unit 11-A of my Business English series. This unit introduces the language of trends in the context of a line graph. Class activities include vocabulary worksheet, speaking practice to use new vocabulary, summarizing graph information, then drawing a line graph based on written data. There are answer keys provided for all exercises. I hope...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 16
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HIGH INTERMEDIATE TO ADVANCED BUSINESS ENGLISH - GIVING A PROJECT STATUS REPORT - LESSON 2 OF 2
This is Lesson 2 of 2 for the unit of the same name. I am creating a 126-lesson Business English course to be used in Beijing. However, most (if not all) of these materials can be modified for use in any country. This lesson facilitates speaking practice using the material taught and reinforced in Lesson 1 of 2. This lesson uses the context of a re...
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 14
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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 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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INTERMEDIATE BUSINESS ENGLISH - LOST IN TRANSLATION - LESSON 2 OF 2
This is the next installment of the Business English series I am creating for use in the Beijing area. This is Lesson 2 of 2. This unit further builds on the skills taught and reinforced in Lesson 1 of 2 of the same name. This unit facilitates structured exchange of translation and the rationale used for a specific translation. Also included are wo...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 15
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INTERMEDIATE SALON -- AT THE MOVIES
This activity uses the context of a movie story line to get students thinking creatively. They work in groups of 3-5, ideally, to evaluate the parts of the movie Titanic, then use the same principles to create their own original movie story line. I hope you can use it! I used it a few nights ago with a group of 8 (two teams of 4 each). Midway throu...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 16
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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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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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VOCABULARY IN CONTEXT - AGING IN PLACE
This is another of my Vocabulary In Context presentations. This one is on the topic of Aging In Place. I teach in China, and the rapidly aging population is an issue. There�s a few slides dedicated to China. HOWEVER!!! These are very easily changed and are only at the beginning. Total of 26 slides
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Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Downloads: 26
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REVIEW OF REGULAR/IRREGULAR VERBS, AS/WHEN/WHILE, PAST PROGRESSIVE, PAST TENSE, BEGINNER, INTERMEDIATE, LOW INTERMEDIATE,
I prepared this (21 slides) as a review of the grammar points taught from Beginner to Lower Intermediate Level. These are things that all students SHOULD know and be able to accurately use by this point.
There�s an exercise to match present verbs with their irregular past tense. There�s a compl...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Downloads: 36
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LANGUAGES & NATIONALITIES - SPEAKING AND COMPARISON FOR BEGINNERS
This ppt is suitable for a full hour class. It starts with a table showing a list of "people", where they are from, their language, nationality and where their country is located. I spend a few minutes on this slide asking various questions (who speaks __? Where is __ from? Etc) and the answers must...
Level: elementary
Age: 12-100
Downloads: 34
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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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VOCABULARY IN CONTEXT - STUPID CRIMINALS - PART 1 OF 2
Here�s another Vocabulary In Context presentation -- I�m not so sure why, but my Intermediate to Advanced group absolutely loves this way of learning vocabulary. I was just lucky to have stumbled on this.
In this one, I�ve taken short blurbs about stupid criminals, and used those blurbs to teach...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Downloads: 75
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MYTHS ABOUT AMERICANS - CULTURE AND VOCAB IN CONTEXT
I�ve taught ESL only 2 places -- USA & China. (this can be used elsewhere) Here in China, there is a *massive* amount of crazy stuff Chinese people believe to be absolute fact about Americans. There�s so much consistency to it, in fact, that I put together this ppt to try to figure out why. Turns o...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Downloads: 70
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WELCOME TO BURNING MAN -- TEACHING VOCAB VIA CONTEXT - PART 3 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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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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