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Adventure Stories: Reading and Writing
A great chance to practice sentence and paragraph writing in context! This download includes a poster of the parts in an adventure story, a graphic organizer I use to analyse adventure stories we read in class, as well as to plan their own story, and a copy of Shrek from IMDB. Each box becomes its own page and students come out with an amazing stor...
Level: advanced
Age: 9-17
Type: others
Downloads: 15
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Articulation Practice - Tongue Twisters
I spent a few minutes each day on articulation. These tongue twisters focus on some of the more difficult English sounds. We�d work on one as a way of practising the proper formation of the sound. I also had two chinese tongue twisters on there so that the students had a chance to be the teacher, trying to get me to pronounce words correctly in the...
Level: advanced
Age: 9-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 3
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Practice for Real-life Conversations
A list of ideas for students to role-play real-life situations they will likely face. I keep it on my desk as a resource for ideas, and check them off as we do them. Examples include: you want to buy something but you can�t find it... politely disagree with someone�s opinion... serving people and ordering in a restaurant.
Level: advanced
Age: 10-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 14
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Talking and Content Games for ESL
This is a list of classroom games that need few or no resources to play. I keep it at my desk to support the content being covered, promote talking, or as an active learning break in the middle of a long period. Included is word/sentence relay, Adverb Game (detective), Train Wreck (adjectives, clothing, classroom objects), and so on. I have tried t...
Level: elementary
Age: 5-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 23
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Favourite Things Game
An awesome game that gets kids talking about things they like while they play! Can be adapted to various levels of language ability. All you need is a coin and a couple things to hold your place and you have a great game for kids! When they land on a space with a topic in it, they need to say, "My favourite (topic) is ___" to stay there. As a varia...
Level: intermediate
Age: 5-12
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 2
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Oral Language: Mystery Object Guessing Game
This is a great resource for a fun oral activity that kids really like. One student brings in or chooses something small to hide in a box/bag. The class uses the questions listed to ask yes/no questions. Based on the student�s answers, they try to guess what is in the box. This paper is an excellent resource for the game. More advanced kids can hav...
Level: elementary
Age: 4-17
Type: others
Downloads: 38
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Oral Activities - Topics to Talk about
This is an awesome resource for oral language that I just kept on my desk for reference. Whenever we have our discussion time, we do one of these questions. They will work for any age or level. You could talk with partners, small groups, or whole class. More advanced classes could even write out their answers before or after sharing. You could have...
Level: intermediate
Age: 6-17
Type: others
Downloads: 26
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