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HIGH BEGINNER TO LOW INTERMEDIATE -- LARGE NUMBERS DICTATION
Nothing fancy here, just a simple (but effective) numbers dictation. I use this a LOT. Fold the sheet in half, Student A reads to Student B, Student B writes. Then reverse. The sheets have different numbers. I chose these numbers specifically with Chinese students in mind, because in Chinese they speak each number, even the zeros. And, of course, w...
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 20
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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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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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HIGH INTERMEDIATE TO ADVANCED BUSINESS ENGLISH - GIVING A PROJECT STATUS REPORT - LESSON 2 OF 2
This is Lesson 2 of 2 for the unit of the same name. I am creating a 126-lesson Business English course to be used in Beijing. However, most (if not all) of these materials can be modified for use in any country. This lesson facilitates speaking practice using the material taught and reinforced in Lesson 1 of 2. This lesson uses the context of a re...
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 14
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HIGH INTERMEDIATE TO ADVANCED BUSINESS ENGLISH - GOING GLOBAL 2 - LESSON 2 OF 2
This is Lesson 2 of 2 of Going Global 2, the latest unit in my Business English series. This further builds on the unit, Going Global. This lesson further facilitates use of second conditional and the vocabulary of contracts and orders in the context of international trade. Activities include structuring a contract and looking at contracts structur...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 22
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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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HIGH INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED BUSINESS ENGLISH - GOING GLOBAL 2 - LESSON 1 OF 2
This is the first of two lessons in the 10th unit of the Business English series I�m working on. This unit introduces the structure of a contract, the items included in a contract, then facilitates discussion using new vocabulary and second conditional in the context of planning a contract for international business. This further builds on the 9th ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 19
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HIGH-INTERMEDIATE TO ADVANCED SOCIAL - MISSION SPACE
This is a group activity facilitating critical thinking quickly and choosing and defending a position. Role play involving a space exploration gone horribly wrong. There�s only enough oxygen for half the passengers. Half must go in order for any to survive. Students assume roles & then justify (or not) their continued use to the group while justify...
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 17
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IN THE NEWS --- HARD/SOFT NEWS
I teach adults in China. I try to put as many things as possible into a familiar context. This lesson is designed to use readily available (and free!) materials ~~ primarily, pictures collected over a couple of weeks from the newspaper. Anything interesting, colorful, about as many types of news reports as possible. This is the only material not in...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 15
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INDIRECT QUESTIONS -- WORKSHEET TO USE WITH OR WITHOUT MATCHING PPT
This worksheet is designed to be paired with the ppt found here: http://www.eslprintables.com/powerpoint.asp?id=99294#thetop
However, it can also be used independently. There is a simple A/B conversation. The B answer is provided. This is designed to be pair-work, and the pairs work together to write what the "A" question must be in order to ge...
Level: elementary
Age: 15-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 16
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FOOD & COOKING: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO RECOMMEND A RESTAURANT
This 14-slide presentation introduces vocabulary of cooking methods & kitchen appliances, then elicits discussion about different types of restaurants. After that, there�s discussion & description of the interior of restaurants. Next comes a restaurant role play. All of that then combines to invite ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
Downloads: 67
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HIGH INTERMEDIATE TO ADVANCED BUSINESS ENGLISH - CUSTOMER SERVICE AND PRODUCT QUALITY SURVEYS - LESSON 1 OF 2
I am in the process of creating a 126-lesson Business English course for use in Bejing. This is the latest in the series. However, most lessons are easily adapted for use in other countries. NOTE: This is being uploaded as a PPT simply because it was too large to be uploaded as a printable document....
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Downloads: 15
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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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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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IDIOMS ABOUT PROBLEMS (IN BUSINESS CONTEXT) TAUGHT THROUGH PICTURES
This ppt teaches idioms related to problems and often used in business. The first slide presents the idiom and a picture. The students attempt to figure out the meaning of the idiom using only the picture and the fact that it has something to do with a problem. If they can�t get it from that, then t...
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Downloads: 76
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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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LANGUAGES & NATIONALITIES - SPEAKING AND COMPARISON FOR BEGINNERS
This ppt is suitable for a full hour class. It starts with a table showing a list of "people", where they are from, their language, nationality and where their country is located. I spend a few minutes on this slide asking various questions (who speaks __? Where is __ from? Etc) and the answers must...
Level: elementary
Age: 12-100
Downloads: 34
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MYTHS ABOUT AMERICANS - CULTURE AND VOCAB IN CONTEXT
I�ve taught ESL only 2 places -- USA & China. (this can be used elsewhere) Here in China, there is a *massive* amount of crazy stuff Chinese people believe to be absolute fact about Americans. There�s so much consistency to it, in fact, that I put together this ppt to try to figure out why. Turns o...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Downloads: 70
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NEGOTIATIONS -- BUSINESS ENGLISH
Hi, all -- This is an activity to promote the language of negotiations. There�s useful phrases, vocabulary, discussion points for pair work. And it all wraps up with a role play to incorporate it all. I hope you like it.
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Downloads: 24
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NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS - ADVANCED CONVERSATION STARTER
I realize I haven�t exactly reinvented the wheel, but this was really useful for me with my advanced group as a springboard for a discussion on New Year�s Resolutions and a lot of new vocabulary. I try to teach vocabulary in context as much as possible, and this worked pretty well with my advanced g...
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Downloads: 107
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