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Teaching Methods, a Teacher Training Seminar
This seminar was presented to Ukrianian teachers to demystify the different approaches to language learning. Basics of Direct Method, Audio Lingual, Grammar Translation & Communicative Method are all given, including a way to present each of them.
This lesson plan includes a great communicative activity, which involves students finding partners ...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 116
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Speaking board game
This is a board game with some general speaking points on it. For example, one square says to describe the person to your right. Another asks if you believe in ghosts (why or why not). This is a fun warm-up activity for students.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: others
Downloads: 79
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Emotional Situations Speaking Prompts
I found this activity from a Peace Corps Volunteer. I formatted it for easy printing and added my own situations to this activity.
Students are in groups, with one envelope full of speaking prompts between them. The prompts are divided by "emotion," which serves as the first part of the speaking task. Students take one piece of paper, ask the pe...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 38
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Improv - Ambiguous Dialogs
The idea is simple: Pairs of students are given 6 lines of ambiguous dialog. They think of what the situation can be, then they act it out. This can be quite fun, and students do not need to think of the words, as they are done for them.
There are 4 ambiguous dialogs included, ready to go, as well as act as an example.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: others
Downloads: 5
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MY FREEZE RAY, a SONG lesson to help READING!
This is a song lesson for the song MY FREEZE RAY, a song from Dr Horrible�s Sing-Along Blog by Joss Whedon.
A song lesson that helps strengthen
READING COMPREHENSION, SCANNING SKILLS, and PREDICTION SKILL!
Good for ALL AGES! (middle school and up!)
Your students will LOVE IT!
Featuring a CATCHY SONG with EASY VOCABULARY!
Good for Low-Inte...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 3
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Cat kitten dog puppy word graphing
This was support material I developed for "Developing Reading Skills B" by JY Books, Chapter 5, Big One, Little One. This was used successfully by Korean kindergarten students.
Students search for the word, circle it in one color, and fill in the graph with that color. For example, circle "Kitten" with red. Fill in how many bars of red for ever...
Level: elementary
Age: 4-6
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 1
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Big Little Fast Slow
This was support material I developed for "Developing Reading Skills B" by JY Books, Chapter 7 Swim, Swim. This was used successfully by Korean kindergarten students.
Page 1: Students write the word 3 times and draw their own picture.
Page 2: Students write each word 2 times and then cut the words and paste them.
Page 3: One print can be divid...
Level: elementary
Age: 4-6
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 0
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Essay Writing AND Strengthening ALL writing
A seminar for how to make writing better. The first part is about the 5-paragraph essay and the second part is how to strengthen your writing using Reasons Examples Names Numbers and Senses. The essay section includes tips about intros/conclusions, a sample outline, & the notes tell how I used examp...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 31
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Creative Writing Activities, Part 2 - Non-Poetry
The 2nd part of a ppt presentation given at the TESOL Ukraine Conference. The following writing activities are within: Superstitions, Tongue Twisters, 6 word summary, Make a movie, and my very own Create-A-Proverb. Again, all the samples within are travel related (except a few of the Create-A-Prover...
Level: elementary
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 18
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Creative Writing Activities, Part 1 - Poetry
The 1st half of a ppt presentation on Creative Writing Activities I gave at the TESOL Ukraine conference. Poetry based, it shows how to do Acrostics (4 variations), Cinquains (2 methods), Haikus and Diamond poems.
These are completely adaptable to age, level and theme.
All the examples all use...
Level: elementary
Age: 8-17
Downloads: 13
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