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1. Activities and Games at Dave's ESL Cafe- Take a look at the idea cookbook.
2. Car Budget Activity- This activity can be easily adapted to your own country.
3. Checking into a Hotel in a Video-based Lesson- Students will be able to anticipate the questions and topics that occur during real-life hotel check-in and respond appropriately.
4. Days of the Week Song- Learn the names of days of the week.
5. Developing Awareness: An Intercultural Communication Lesson Plan- Increase student's ability to interact with and understand aspects of other cultures such as body language, discourse patterns, male and female roles. The students use English during the whole process.
6. El Ser (The Self)- Students will familiarize and internalize ways to describe the internal (feelings) and external self.
7. English Page- Lessons for intermediate and advanced learners of English as a foreign language.
8. English Workbook- An online workbook for learning English.
9. English, Baby- Online daily lessons that relate to entertainment.
10. ESL Quiz Center- Need a quiz for your ESL class?
11. Exploring Our Solar System- The student use English to obtain, process, construct, and provide subject matter information in spoken and written form.
12. Global Warming: A Cause and Effect Writing Lesson- To practice cause and effect writing skills on environmental topics.
13. Jazz Chant- The learner will be able to successfully recite the chant in rhythm, using previously learned vocabulary.
14. Listening to Airplane Announcements in Movies- Provide preparation to listen to and practice in comprehending airplane announcements.
15. Narrating in Simple Past with Video- To provide practice in constructing simple past tense forms and checking for subject verb agreement.
16. Owls- The ESL students will increase their English skills through writing, reading, speaking, listening, and interacting with peers.
17. Paso Partners Bilingual Instructional Program- Examples of lessons for grades K-3.
18. People Who Live the Longest- Some people live for a hundred years or even more. Many of these live in either the Mediterranean region, or in parts of rural Japan, and Russia. What is their secret? Here is a simple activity I used in order to get people thinking.
19. Politeness in Movies- Students will listen for and recognize different levels of politeness in a dialogue.
20. Role Playing/Simulation- Role playing/simulation is an extremely valuable method for L2 learning. It encourages thinking and creativity, lets students develop and practice new language and behavioral skills in a relatively nonthreatening setting, and can create the motivation and involvement necessary for learning to occur.
21. Student-Led Lesson: Vacation Commercials- It gives the students a chance to show their abilities not only to use language, but to plan, organize, and put into action a task which is given to them. It also allows them to take responsibility for their learning as well.
22. Talking Cards- To get the student used to answering general questions at a level that resembles normal speech. To give the students conversational confidence.
23. The Amazon- The student will recall information from a story, which is read aloud. label various objects in the "classroom Amazon." identify nouns.
24. The Family- Students will do an activity that will give them the opportunity to form a "family".
25. Weather- The lessons in this unit are geared toward the mainstreamed classroom, but by simply integrating visual aids and vocabulary it could easily encompass the ESL students in your classroom.