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Thanksgiving Dialogue
I love making dialogues to supplement readings and update with more modern idioms and language use. This dialogue is designed to explain how Thanksgiving is celebrated in the USA. Feel free to adapt to your own situation.
Level: elementary
Age: 7-14
Type:
Downloads: 13
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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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Frosty the Snowman Dialogue
Here is a dialogue about the video, "Frosty the Snowman". I have students watch the short version several times and then have them do the dialogue. They can do it in pairs or small groups of three or four and practice real language. The video is available on YouTube or YouKou.
Level: elementary
Age: 5-12
Type:
Downloads: 13
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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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Wonders: Maria Celebrates Brazil Crossword
This crossword is to accompany the Wonders story, Maria Celebrates Brazil that I posted yesterday. The important words of the story are in the crossword. An answer box is provided, which, of course, can be omitted or re-ordered)
Level: elementary
Age: 6-10
Type:
Downloads: 4
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Shanghai Expo Cloze activity 2
This is the second ws in a series about the Shanghai Expo. I intended to submit this as a ppt but it wouldn�t upload. However, it can easily be turned into a ppt. I use ppt for cloze to save paper. The background information can be used as a study activity or as a dictation exercise.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 0
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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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Beginning Reports Using Cloze: Countries
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 top...
Level: elementary
Age: 7-10
Type: others
Downloads: 8
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If You Give a Moose a Muffin
Laura Numeroff has written a number of children�s books in the "If You Give a ". I previously posted a worksheet for "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" and this book is similar. There are numerous videos of the story on YouTube and Youkou. (https://youtu.be/tOPFVSiB5uQ) This puzzle contains the major vocabulary words in the story. Permission to use the...
Level: elementary
Age: 6-12
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6
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Summer Olympic Word Search
I made this word search (Discovery Education) in preparation for the Summer Olympics (which I hope will take place). Notice that the puzzle uses lower case. I found that my Chinese students always "translated" the upper case word bank into lower case so I changed the puzzle to start with. Also, I used football instead of soccer; I put some two word...
Level: elementary
Age: 6-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 31
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