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RSA: Drive, The Truth about What Motivates Us Listening and Speaking Activity
There are several activities here directed to help scaffold instruction so that intermediate/advanced listening and speaking students have practice listening to an authentic lecture and discussing related ideas to frontload vocabulary and activate prior knowledge before taking a formal assessment of their listening/note taking skills in the form of...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 15
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Identity Theft Authentic News Listening Segment and Discussion Activity
High intermediate/advanced listening activity using authentic English news clip, includes a cloze exercise on a YouTube news segment discussing Identity Theft, related listening comprehension questions, and directions for a homework assignment with follow up discussion on types of crime, many opportunities for listening and speaking
Level: advanced
Age: 11-14
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 22
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Health Insurance (ObamaCare) News Listening Comprehension Exercise
High intermediate/advanced listening activity using authentic English news clip, includes a cloze exercise on a YouTube news segment discussing ObamaCare health insurance policies and expert panel opinions, related listening comprehension questions, and directions for follow up small group research projects related to health services/insurance/issu...
Level: advanced
Age: 11-14
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 34
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Listening Activity - Scene from the movie, Speed
Use this worksheet as a listening comprehension exercise with emphasis on basic listening comprehension of quick exchanges in dialogue that include unfamiliar expressions and lots of numbers. Show your students segment 26:42-31:29 from the movie, Speed, with Keanu Reeves and Dennis Hopper. You will need to get the DVD or find the scene online. It m...
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6
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Listening Activity - Scene from the movie, While You Were Sleeping
Use this worksheet as a listening comprehension exercise with emphasis on noticing when and how rising and falling intonation is used. Show your students Scene 5 from the movie, While You Were Sleeping, with Bill Pullman and Sandra Bullock. You will need to get the DVD or find the scene online. It has excellent examples that show rising and falling...
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7
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Listening Activity - Scene from the movie, French Kiss
Use this worksheet as a listening comprehension exercise with emphasis on noticing sentence word stress. Show your students Scene 7 from the movie, French Kiss, with Kevin Kline and Meg Ryan. You will need to get the DVD or find the scene online. It has excellent examples that show stressing important words in sentences. It may lead to a variety of...
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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Listening and Speaking Activities on Inventions
A complete day�s lesson plan, includes a cloze exercise on a YouTube penicillin invention video clip, related listening comprehension questions, a brainstorm of relevant inventions, and directions for a research project on inventions, many options for listening and speaking
Level: advanced
Age: 10-17
Type: others
Downloads: 40
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Simon Says Game Using Prepositions of Direction
**Note: In this case, the focus is on TPR (total physical response) as it relates to connecting the meaning of certain prepositions of direction to carrying them out in action. Adding the �Simon says� rules is optional. I suggest playing it once without the �Simon says� aspect and then later incorporating the rules and allowing students to take tur...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 20
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Speed Dating Activity
Directions: For use to promote listening/speaking skills, vocabulary development and comradery in an advanced level class � Begin by frontloading vocabulary � which words don�t students already know? Next pair students together to start. Explain the similarities this activity shares with speed dating. Every time the teacher says �switch� and signa...
Level: advanced
Age: 10-17
Type: others
Downloads: 5
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Simple Past Tense Songs: Noticing and Pronunciation Activities
Three songs with noticing and cloze activities used to identify regular and irregular simple past tense verb forms and specifically to notice different pronunciations of the -ed ending
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 8
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Debate Terms Activity
This activity allows for whole class participation in a review of agree/disagree terms and their usage and provides opportunities for pair debates that follow.
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Downloads: 22
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What�s your sign? Horoscopes, Fates and the Dating Game (Various Activities)
A fun filled comprehensive lesson that can last for hours - includes opportunities for speaking, listening, writing, reading and mini-grammar lessons. As a warmup, students discuss their understanding and opinion of destiny (defined). Next, they survey each other on related Y/N questions about desti...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 38
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A Lesson on Superheroes
This lesson lasts about an hour and begins with open discussion about Superheroes, followed by a mini lesson on the use and form for "can/can�t." In the end, students create their own Superheroes and then present them by creating either an original theme song, dialogue or poster presentation. Fun on...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 22
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Comparisons on Family: A Review of Comparative Forms using My Big Fat Greek Wedding Scene 11
This lesson incorporates cultural contexts and authentic speech into a General English lesson on making comparisons. It is largely a review/assessment lesson that has opportunities to utilize descriptive vocabulary, listening comprehension, discussion and writing related to comparing family and cul...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 10
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Modals PPT
Teaches different kinds of modals: form and use with student exercises and complete lesson plan
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Downloads: 19
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