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Aches and Pains: Learning Terminology through Dialogue
This lesson covers terminology used to describe aches and pains. It includes activities on inferring meaning through listening comprehension/reading and practice by doing: creating new dialogues using this terminology. Students have a lot of fun with this and use their creativity/sense of humor/dramatic side. *Recommended for a creative class that ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: Choose
Downloads: 9
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Listening Activity - Scene from the movie, French Kiss
Use this worksheet as a listening comprehension exercise with emphasis on noticing sentence word stress. Show your students Scene 7 from the movie, French Kiss, with Kevin Kline and Meg Ryan. You will need to get the DVD or find the scene online. It has excellent examples that show stressing important words in sentences. It may lead to a variety of...
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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Simple Past Tense Songs: Noticing and Pronunciation Activities
Three songs with noticing and cloze activities used to identify regular and irregular simple past tense verb forms and specifically to notice different pronunciations of the -ed ending
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 8
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Speed Dating Activity
Directions: For use to promote listening/speaking skills, vocabulary development and comradery in an advanced level class � Begin by frontloading vocabulary � which words don�t students already know? Next pair students together to start. Explain the similarities this activity shares with speed dating. Every time the teacher says �switch� and signa...
Level: advanced
Age: 10-17
Type: others
Downloads: 5
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Real Life Superheroes
This is an activity to practice writing paragraphs. It is scaffolded for lower level intermediate with fill in the blanks, followed by free writing and includes a brief lesson plan. Great to add after the Superhero PPT or as a separate writing practice.
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6
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Paying Attention, Expressions for Use in Conversation
A review exercise: chart of expressions, sample speaking dialogue, student generated dialogue and performance
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 11
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Simon Says Game Using Prepositions of Direction
**Note: In this case, the focus is on TPR (total physical response) as it relates to connecting the meaning of certain prepositions of direction to carrying them out in action. Adding the �Simon says� rules is optional. I suggest playing it once without the �Simon says� aspect and then later incorporating the rules and allowing students to take tur...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 20
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R/L/S New Student Interview
30+ minute Reading, Listening and Speaking activity icebreaker for new students to get to know each other while also practicing all three skills; Pair activity/role switching -asking "getting to know you" type questions, dictating student responses word for word or summarizing and using creative and descriptive language to report back in the 3rd pe...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 3
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Listening Activity - Scene from the movie, Speed
Use this worksheet as a listening comprehension exercise with emphasis on basic listening comprehension of quick exchanges in dialogue that include unfamiliar expressions and lots of numbers. Show your students segment 26:42-31:29 from the movie, Speed, with Keanu Reeves and Dennis Hopper. You will need to get the DVD or find the scene online. It m...
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6
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Listening Activity - Scene from the movie, While You Were Sleeping
Use this worksheet as a listening comprehension exercise with emphasis on noticing when and how rising and falling intonation is used. Show your students Scene 5 from the movie, While You Were Sleeping, with Bill Pullman and Sandra Bullock. You will need to get the DVD or find the scene online. It has excellent examples that show rising and falling...
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7
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What�s your sign? Horoscopes, Fates and the Dating Game (Various Activities)
A fun filled comprehensive lesson that can last for hours - includes opportunities for speaking, listening, writing, reading and mini-grammar lessons. As a warmup, students discuss their understanding and opinion of destiny (defined). Next, they survey each other on related Y/N questions about desti...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 38
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Modals PPT
Teaches different kinds of modals: form and use with student exercises and complete lesson plan
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Downloads: 19
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Debate Terms Activity
This activity allows for whole class participation in a review of agree/disagree terms and their usage and provides opportunities for pair debates that follow.
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
Downloads: 22
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Comparisons on Family: A Review of Comparative Forms using My Big Fat Greek Wedding Scene 11
This lesson incorporates cultural contexts and authentic speech into a General English lesson on making comparisons. It is largely a review/assessment lesson that has opportunities to utilize descriptive vocabulary, listening comprehension, discussion and writing related to comparing family and cul...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 10
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A Lesson on Superheroes
This lesson lasts about an hour and begins with open discussion about Superheroes, followed by a mini lesson on the use and form for "can/can�t." In the end, students create their own Superheroes and then present them by creating either an original theme song, dialogue or poster presentation. Fun on...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 22
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