English as a Second Language Lesson Plans
- Air
Travel - Describing scenes of airports, airplanes, everyday scenes
and activities reviewing the present tense and incorporating the present
and past progress.
- Beginning
Sounds Flashcard Game - The Flashcard Game will be used as a Mastery
Structure to help students master the concept of beginning sounds cooperatively.
- Car
Budget Activity- This activity can be easily adapted to your own country.
- Classroom
Words and Actions - Students will be able to identify important objects
in the classroom. They will also be able to understand "common" directions
given to them in the classroom.
- Conversation
About the Weather - To be able to broaden the vocabulary when talking
about the weather so the student can broaden their conversation.
- Days of the Week
Song- Learn the names of days of the week.
- Eating
in a Restaurant - Building and designing your own restaurant.
- English Page- Lessons for
intermediate and advanced learners of English as a foreign language.
- English, Baby- Online daily
lessons that relate to entertainment.
- Exploring
Money - Students are introduced to the concept of currency and money.
- Exploring
Use and Function of Coins - Teacher will put students in partners
and give each group a cup of real coins.
- Food
Preferences - To express the way to express preferences about food.
- Gender
Equality - Students will identify problems with not treating people
equally.
- How's
it going conversation? - To be able to have a conversation in English
for small talk.
- Interactive
Body Parts - This lesson is an interactive way to introduce body parts
to first graders.
- Making
Valid Comparisons - As an attention getter, ask students to think
about what they have in common between a family member or a close friend.
- Narrating
in Simple Past with Video- To provide practice in constructing simple
past tense forms and checking for subject verb agreement.
- 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.
- Personality
& Descriptions - Being able to describe someone fully and with distinction.
- Politeness
in Movies- Students will listen for and recognize different levels
of politeness in a dialogue.
- 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
non-threatening setting, and can create the motivation and involvement
necessary for learning to occur.
- Selena:
Biography and Vocabulary - Identify features of a biography. Apply
knowledge for a simple biography.
- 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.
- Talking
Cards- To get the student used to answering general questions at a
level that resembles normal speech. To give the students conversational
confidence.
- TRAVEL
- Traveling to Canada.
- Travel
Diary (model) - Demonstrates understanding of the interdependence
of language and culture.
- What
are you doing? - Be able to state what the people are doing in the
pictures and put in a complete sentence.
- WH-Questions
& The Self Pronoun - Students will be able to recognize, understand,
and produce the manual and non-manual grammatical components of WH-Questions
and the Self Pronoun.
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