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Diagramming Practice with Lines
Decades ago we diagrammed sentences to help us understand their structure. Not all students like to do this, but mathematical-logical students love it (see Gardner�s 8 types of intelligence.) Diagramming is useful to show if we have complete or incomplete sentences, whether a given word in a sentence should be an adverb or an adjective, how prepo...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6
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Tongue Twisters
A collection of 45 tongue twisters on a one-page handout plus several charts showing which sounds or sound contrasts are particularly troublesome for speakers of different languages. Often the problem for our ELL students is that English has sounds that don�t exist in the students� native language, so a list is included in this file of those Englis...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 61
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Subject/Verb Agreement Checkers
Grammar meets checkers. The students can only jump opponents� checkers if there is subject/verb agreement between the pieces involved in the jump. For example, a checker with "he" on it can jump a checker with "writes" on it, but not a checker with "write" on it. Students will have to pay close attention to any s�s they see.
Level: elementary
Age: 5-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 25
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Blank Story Board with Lord of the Flies Example
To help students learn to pull the most important events out of story or prepare to write their own stories, story boards are quite useful. Here is a blank story board and a completed example for the book The Lord of the Flies. On the example, I limited my drawings to stick figures so the students see this is something they are capable of.
Level: elementary
Age: 5-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 81
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Intonation Practice
A handout to walk students through making recordings that help them understand how stress and emotion can change the meaning of a sentence.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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Things Found in a Pocket--Degrees of Probability Exercise
A cooperative learning task where students look at pictures of objects supposedly found in the coat pocket of an airplane passenger. The coat was left behind on the plane, and your students need to make deductions about the coat�s owner to help the airline return the coat. A chart is included for students to indicate how certain or uncertain they...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: article
Downloads: 13
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Affix Dominoes
Expanding students vocabulary is not simply a process of teaching them new words. You also need to teach word roots and affixes (both prefixes and suffixes.) Learning what affixes and roots mean and which affixes and roots can be joined enables students to understand words they never studied. My affix dominoes game will increase students familia...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 11
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Adjectives for People
An extensive alphabetical list of positive adjectives for describing people. There are at least five adjectives for every letter of the alphabet, although the adjectives for the letter �x� all begin with �ex.�
I use this as a tool to help students with a getting-to-know-you exercise where they must think of an adjective that describes themse...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 14
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Expressing Anger Lesson Plan
A lesson plan on anger and all the resources you need to teach it. Includes an interesting short story, a funny newspaper article, roleplay prompts, a simulation to show how easily serious misunderstandings can occur, and homework assignments.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 30
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Idiom Origins Reading with Review Exercise
A shocking and humorous explanation of how some common idioms came about. I suggest passing around one copy and having twelve students read one paragraph each aloud. The exercise that accompanies the reading can then offer a way to check how well the students listened and understood the article. After the students have completed the exercise, pas...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 27
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