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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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INTERMEDIATE BUSINESS ENGLISH - MAKING ARRANGEMENTS - LESSON 2 OF 2
This is the next in the Business English lesson series I am writing for use in Beijing. This is Lesson 3, Part 2 of 2. This is to further build on the material presented in Part 1 of 2 of the lesson by the same name, "Making Arrangements". I hope you find it useful! More to come....
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 23
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COMPARATIVES - SUPERLATIVES RACE
This lesson requires a little preparation on your part, but this is a lesson you will be able to use over and over for the rest of your teaching career. I make constant use of visuals and free resources -- my favorite by far is pictures from newspapers and magazines. For this lesson, I collected pictures from the newspaper over the course of about ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 22
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INTERMEDIATE BUSINESS ENGLISH - LOST IN TRANSLATION -- LESSON 1 OF 2
This is the next in the Business English series I am developing for use in the Beijing area. This lesson, though, can be easily modified for use in any country. This lesson is about accurately relaying information in a multilingual office environment (phone messages, memos, etc). I tested this with a group of 4 students a few nights ago, and it wor...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 19
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HIGH INTERMEDIATE TO ADVANCED SALON - SPEED DEBATING
This is a very versatile format. There are a few dozen debate topics. Specific instructions included, but summary is: Two students are pitted against each other - one assigned "for", one "against". With no prep time, they must begin debating. They get a poker chip for each minute (up to 3) that they speak. If they stop talking for more than 10 sec...
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 20
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INTERMEDIATE TO ADVANCED BUSINESS ENGLISH - WHY DO YOU LIKE YOUR COMPANY (COMPANY BENEFITS)
After a break for a few weeks to work on another project, I am back full-steam on my Business English course.
This is a 2-part lesson, but each part can stand independently with minor changes. I�m just designing it this way because my target clients are corporate workers who need to express daily functions in English.
This lesson focuses o...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 38
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INTERMEDIATE BUSINESS ENGLISH - WHAT DO YOU DO? 2 OF 2
This is Part 2 of the lesson by the same name uploaded just a few days ago. The core of this activity is to use everything learned in the first lesson and reinforced by the homework (if used). Main activity consists of cultural awareness in an international office environment, knowing what is and is not ok to discuss with coworkers, getting to know...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 23
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INTERMEDIATE BUSINESS ENGLISH - PRESENTING A COMPANY - LESSON 2 OF 2
This is the latest in the Business English series I am developing for use in Beijing. This lesson partners with Part 1 of 2 of the same name. Students learn to summarize material into a few concise sentences by adding information, bit by bit, to a simpler sentence. I hope you find it useful. More to come within the next few days.
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 19
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INTERMEDIATE TO ADVANCED BUSINESS ENGLISH - GIVING A PROJECT STATUS REPORT - LESSON 1 OF 2
This is next in the Business English course I am creating for use in Beijing. This one is a little more advanced -- this is High Intermediate to Low Advanced. It focuses on the critical importance of correct verb tenses when talking about projects that are not yet completed. Included are activities to give students structured practice forming gramm...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 31
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FANTASY VACATION - PHRASAL VERBS
This activity uses the context of a fantasy vacation to teach phrasal verbs related to travel. In the first part, students see if they can identify which phrasal verb to use based on definition. In the second part, in pairs they plan a fantasy vacation and use as many of the phrasal verbs as possible. It is a competition. They can use them more tha...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 35
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BUSINESS ENGLISH / CREATIVE WRITING - FRONTING, CLEFT SENTENCES, WRITING FOR EMPHASIS
Hi, All!
I wrote this to be used in my Business English course. I found that the topic was too complicated (and boring) to put into a lesson plan, so I thought this would be more efficient.
It covers fronting, cleft and pseudo cleft sentences, word choice, word order -- and why all of these...
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Downloads: 35
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INTERMEDIATE TO ADVANCED - VOCABULARY IN CONTEXT - WOULD YOU RETIRE AS AN EXPAT?
Another ppt introducing vocabulary in context in the setting of planning a retirement while you are still young -- to retire as an expat. Introduces assorted vocabulary related to the topic (including a few idioms) and invites students to discuss what they would require in order to retire abroad (co...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Downloads: 17
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VOCABULARY IN CONTEXT - STUPID CRIMINALS - PART 1 OF 2
Here�s another Vocabulary In Context presentation -- I�m not so sure why, but my Intermediate to Advanced group absolutely loves this way of learning vocabulary. I was just lucky to have stumbled on this.
In this one, I�ve taken short blurbs about stupid criminals, and used those blurbs to teach...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Downloads: 75
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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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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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VOCABULARY IN CONTEXT - STUPID CRIMINALS - PART 2 OF 2
Here�s another Vocabulary In Context presentation -- I�m not so sure why, but my Intermediate to Advanced group absolutely loves this way of learning vocabulary. I was just lucky to have stumbled on this.
In this one, I�ve taken short blurbs about stupid criminals, and use those blurbs to teach ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Downloads: 57
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VOCABULARY IN CONTEXT - UPCYCLING - PART 2 OF 2
This is Part 2 of 2 of Upcycling. This is a PPT to introduce the concept of upcycling and introduces a lot of new vocabulary via context. I used this with a large group of students including levels from beginner to advanced. They seemed to enjoy it, and I encouraged them to express their thoughts on...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Downloads: 18
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WEATHER, SEASONS, TIMES OF DAY, TEMPERATURES - PART 2 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: 16
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BEGINNER LEVEL - TIMES OF LIFE & DESCRIBING PEOPLE - PART 1 OF 2
This is designed to follow (but can also be independent of) my ppt lesson on weather. In this ppt, students get vocabulary about the stages of life and ways to describe people. I tried to include enough pictures with enough variety to give them a chance to use all new vocabulary. Unfortunately, beca...
Level: elementary
Age: 13-100
Downloads: 17
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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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