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A simile game
A game for students to learn to use similes and expand their vocabulary and language usage.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
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Downloads: 11
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Barak Obama Speech 2004 Dems convention Listening activity with MC questions
This is an activity based on the 2004 Barak Obama speech to the democrats convention. He speaks clearly and well. Plus there are two or three commentators on his speech. It is a good activity to spring board into persuasive language and easy listening with the use of repetition illustrated well in the text.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
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Biography Versus Autobiography
Students broaden vocabulary, expand research skills, collect information on a subject and use the information to write a biographical text on him or her.
Work on an explicit language base to write an extended text using the scaffold.
They should be encouraged to use visuals to illustrate their story and to present it to the class as a PP presen...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
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Downloads: 13
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Growing up Asian in Australia
This group of activities includes an analysis text of the Short Story by Diana Nuygen 5 Ways to Disappoint Your Mother and allows ESL students who are studying at a higher level access to some important issues around family values and the culture clash of expectations inherent in a westernised civilisation.
I will be posting a comparative study w...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
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Downloads: 21
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Listening activity on Vaping and activities related
This is a listening activity with a cloze (verb based).
Discussion on the dangers of vaping with vocabulary activities and students make a poster and also required to give a brief presentation about vaping - what it is and the dangers of vaping.
Questions to answer. I have not enclosed an answer sheet to the short answer questions but am happy to...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
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Downloads: 24
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Pre fable reading activity
An aid to reading fables. An activity to use for descriptive writing and to allow students to understand the character traits represented by animals. This can change from culture to culture and could also be incorporated with a lesson on Chinese Astrology. This can then be transferred across th character profiles for people and expanded with diffe...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-15
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Simply Similes
These activities are for students to broaden their usage of English Language items and to successfully construct sentences using common similes used in English.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
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Starting Opinion Writing Activity
This is an activity designed for students with an Upper Intermediate to Advanced level of English. Student that received this exercise had already spent some weeks on exposition writing. It should help transition to mainstream students learn to express an opinion effectively and use supporting arguments for the Topic Sentence.
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
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Downloads: 19
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Template for a movie review
Focus: Structure of the Movie Review. Teacher needs to prompt students with phrases using an actual review or indeed taking a movie and working on the sheet together. Focus on simple language and clarity of expression. elicit responses from students about movies they have seen and get them to write sentences about the movie. Make it a living active...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-14
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Downloads: 14
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The Breadwinner Part 1 Chapters 1 -5
A book that can be found in audio on ESL.bits under novellas. These activities cover the comprehension and language work of 15 chapters of the text. There are some extension activities in the third booklet.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
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Downloads: 12
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