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For Mother�s Day: Love You Forever Word Search
Mother�s Day is coming! The much-loved short story by Robert Munsch is a perfect Mother�s Day activity. Videos are available on YouTube and Youku. https://youtu.be/IAXcIpoyBwI
Level: elementary
Age: 7-12
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7
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Oral Presentation Rubric
This is a form I use to evaluate an oral presentation. I generally complete a form, giving suggestions or making comments below each category; allow the speaker to use the form for self-evaluation; and allow a classmate to use the form for peer evaluation and suggestions. I chose advanced level but I think it could be used for intermediate level as...
Level: advanced
Age: 6-17
Type: others
Downloads: 32
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Graphic Organizer to Understand Government in the U.S.A.
This graphic organizer helps students visualize the three branches of the U.S. government at the national, state, and local levels. The organizer can be completed by students, put on the bulletin board and students can put newspaper articles in the correct square, etc. The format can also be used for testing student knowledge as to level and branch...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: others
Downloads: 11
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Twelve Days of Christmas Word Search
This Christmas song provides rich vocabulary development, ordinal number use and practice, alliteration, and Christmas fun. I always use lower case for my word searches because my Chinese students have a little difficulty in reading words in all upper case.
Level: elementary
Age: 5-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 10
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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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Monopoly Terms Word Search
I�ve had success getting my students to talk naturally through game playing. Go Fish, for example. I�m ready to go to the next level and try Monopoly. I�ve prepared this simple word search and I hope my students can catch on and make some deals.
Level: elementary
Age: 6-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6
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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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Taj Mahal Dialogue
I have uploaded several short dialogues that I have made from stories in our reading books. This enables the students to have a speaking opportunity that is more colloquial and natural than reading from the text. This particular article was from the National Geographic Series.
Level: elementary
Age: 9-100
Type:
Downloads: 12
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Wonders: Maria Celebrates Brazil
Here is the transcription of the dialogue of the second story in Wonders G2-U1 about a girl who is going to dance at the Carnival Parade (though the story doesn�t specifically say "Carnival"). I�ve also included a YouTube link to children leading the Carnival parade.
Level: elementary
Age: 7-10
Type:
Downloads: 8
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Three Little Pigs Word Analysis Using WordSift 2
I am presenting this amazing web tool to my ESL colleagues in case they might find it useful. Although I used a simple story as the example, the tool will work with large amounts of text and can be very useful linguistically.
Level: advanced
Age: 5-100
Type: others
Downloads: 2
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Tale of Peter Rabbit Dialogue
This is a paired dialogue activity for the classic story of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter. My students watch the video several times and then by pairs alternate between A and B to develop a conversation and learn how to retell a story.
Level: elementary
Age: 5-12
Downloads: 24
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Thanksgiving Uno
UNO is a great game for English language learners. This UNO game is adapted for Thanksgiving. Check the notes on the first slide for directions. Previous thematic UNO games include Christmas, Halloween, and Easter. Print on heavier stock paper. Of course, color is required. Photos from Google Common...
Level: elementary
Age: 5-100
Downloads: 33
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Eight Key Introductory Questions to the United Kingdom
This is a great ppt to introduce a study of the United Kingdom by posing discussion questions followed by factual information.
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
Downloads: 10
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Tutorial for the "Learning Chocolate" website
This is a tutorial for teachers to show their sudents how to use the "Learning Chocolate" website. I don�t have internet access in my classroom, so I use this ppt to explain how valuable this website is.
Level: elementary
Age: 6-17
Downloads: 3
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Halloween UNO
This game uses the UNO concept to learn Halloween vocabulary. Students must say the color and the character to play a card. The person who plays all his/her cards wins. This game is similar to the Christmas and Easter UNO games I previously uploaded. Print on heavier weight paper in color and cut ap...
Level: elementary
Age: 5-100
Downloads: 40
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Understanding American Coins and Currency
This basic money unit calls for students to work together in a group to determine the total value of coins shown on the screen. It also includes an idea for a venn diagram to compare and contrast American dollars with currency from another country.Good unit to do around President�s Day.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-100
Downloads: 15
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Tutorial for Learning Chocolate Website
This is a tutorial for teachers to show their sudents how to use the "Learning Chocolate" website. I don�t have internet access in my classroom, so I use this ppt to explain how valuable this website is. Unfortunately, I had to break the presentation into two parts.
Level: elementary
Age: 6-17
Downloads: 9
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Don�t Forget About New Year�s Eve and New Year�s Day
This ppt explains a bit about how Americans celebrate New Year�s Eve and New Year�s Day.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 29
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Waltzing Matilda Explained
This famous ballad from Australia is its informal national anthem. Just to listen to it, one wouldn�t realize it is about a migrant who steals a sheep and is caught. Rather than be hanged, he drowns himself. The lyrics are from the Slim Dusty version that was sung by him at the Melbourne Olympics.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 9
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Where is Thumbkin?
I finally decided to make a ppt for "Where is Thumbkin?", one of the songs I use when teaching body parts--in addition to "Head, shoulders, knees, and toes" and "The Hokey Pokey". I like to have the girls sing the question part and the boys sing the answer.
Level: elementary
Age: 3-10
Downloads: 5
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