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INTERMEDIATE SALON - WHAT DID YOU CALL ME? (SIMILES & METAPHORS)
Hi! This lesson facilitates understanding of similes and metaphors, then provides 3 activities for pair work to use the target language. The first activity is simile, second is metaphor. The 3rd activity may not be needed, as the first two will probably take all of an hour class period. But in the event you need a time filler, the third is there. T...
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 10
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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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HIGH INTERMEDIATE - ADVANCED BUSINESS ENGLISH - IT�S ALL IN HOW YOU SAY IT (WRITING EFFECTIVE EMAILS)
Hi! This is the next installment in my Business English series. This one is on effective email writing. Several activities including: Pair work to discuss their speculation on a list of potential best practices, practice simplifying sentences into concise bits of information, then a writing assignment to compose emails addressing assorted problems....
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 47
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UPPER INTERMEDIATE TO ADVANCED BUSINESS ENGLISH - CUSTOMER SERVICE/PRODUCT QUALITY SURVEYS
This is the latest in my Business English series. This is Lesson 2 of 2 of the unit "Customer Service and Product Quality Surveys". The first half of this unit (Lesson 1 of 2) was over the size limit to be submitted as a printable, so I had to upload it as a PPT. (Link here: http://www.eslprintables.com/powerpoint.asp?id=89964#thetop ) Many thanks ...
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 16
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ADVANCED BUSINESS ENGLISH - GETTING THE INTERVIEW - PART 2 OF 2 (RESUME WRITING)
Hi, everybody --
This is the next installment in my Business English series. This is the 2nd part of the resume writing unit. For those who may not have seen my previous business contributions, I�m constructing a Business English course that can be used for high intermediate to Advanced. (Some are just Advanced only. Like this one.) The approac...
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 26
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HIGH BEGINNER/LOW INTERMEDIATE SALON -- NAME FIVE THINGS
This activity is useful for any age group of students from High Beginner to Low Intermediate. Since I design curriculum for my school, I often put lesson plans with things. (It�s not unusual for us to hire inexperienced teachers, thus the step-by-step lesson plans.) But these are certainly not etched in stone. This is a board game to encourage spe...
Level: elementary
Age: 10-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 5
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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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PICK-A-CARD SENTENCE BUILDING GAME
I am always struggling to find things for my lowest level students. I saw another teacher I work with do sentence building in a one-on-one class, and I expanded it to make it uniform, add the element of chance with the cards, and turn it into a team activity. I used it a couple of nights ago with some of my most challenging students, and I was very...
Level: elementary
Age: 14-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 25
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ONCE UPON A TIME ---- GROUP ACTIVITY WRITING FAIRYTALES
I teach adults in Beijing. I try to put as many things as possible into a familiar frame of reference for my students. I also try to use as many FREE things as I can. SO - I use A LOT of pictures from newspapers and magazines. Tons. For this lesson, you will need to gather around 75 random pictures from newspapers and magazines. I have my Go-To pac...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 36
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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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DESCRIBING GRAPHS -- ADVANCED SPEAKING
This is a 31-slide activity about describing information presented in visual form -- bar graphs, line graphs, pie charts. There�s a brainstorming activity with later reinforcement for the vocabulary for describing the movement depicted. There�s a full explanation and illustration of the various ways...
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Downloads: 66
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HOW TO NOT BE OFFENSIVE WHEN TRAVELING
I made this as a springboard for a conversation about cultural awareness. I teach in China and it is not uncommon for my students to have zero frame of reference for anything that is NOT Chinese. So I wanted to show the benefits of always being aware of others� frame of reference and then encourage ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Downloads: 44
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WELCOME TO BURNING MAN -- TEACHING VOCAB VIA CONTEXT - PART 4 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: 10
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WELCOME TO BURNING MAN -- TEACHING VOCAB VIA CONTEXT - PART 2 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: 12
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POLITE REQUESTS -- STRUCTURE AND PRACTICE
This is a two-part activity -- The first part is this PPT. The second part is a worksheet that allows the students to continue with the grammar they have learned in the ppt. The slides present a breakdown of how polite requests are structured, and why. Then, the final slides provide an A/B convers...
Level: elementary
Age: 15-100
Downloads: 21
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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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ART IMITATES LIFE, LIFE IMITATES ART - ADVANCED DISCUSSION - PART 2 OF 2
This is Part 2 of 2 -- Presentation of the concepts of Life Imitates Art and Art Imitates Life. First half introduces the two ideas, what each side believes, and the origins. The second half introduces assorted art pieces for description. Lastly, a group discussion activity to express their own bel...
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Downloads: 27
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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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WEATHER, SEASONS, TIMES OF DAY, TEMPERATURES - PART 4 OF 5
First, let me apologize for there being 5 parts to this. Once again, the file limits have bitten me in the backside! This lesson is a format I�ve been using for about 4 yrs, and it has always worked well for me. I usually just do it on the board, but decided to put it into a ppt for larger classes. ...
Level: elementary
Age: 13-100
Downloads: 18
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