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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Workbook- An online workbook for learning English.
- English, Baby- Online daily lessons that relate to entertainment.
- Exploring Money - Students are introduced to the concept of currency and money.
- Exploring Our Solar System- The student use English to obtain, process, construct, and provide subject matter information in spoken and written form.
- 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.
- Global Warming: A Cause and Effect Writing Lesson- To practice cause and effect writing skills on environmental topics.
- 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.
- Jazz Chant- The learner will be able to successfully recite the chant in rhythm, using previously learned vocabulary.
- Listening to Airplane Announcements in Movies- Provide preparation to listen to and practice in comprehending airplane announcements.
- 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.
- Owls- The ESL students will increase their English skills through writing, reading, speaking, listening, and interacting with peers.
- Paso Partners Bilingual Instructional Program- Examples of lessons for grades K-3.
- 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.
- The Amazon- The student will recall information from a story, which is read aloud. Label various objects in the "classroom Amazon." identify nouns.
- The Family- Students will do an activity that will give them the opportunity to form a "family".
- TRAVEL - Traveling to Canada.
- Travel Diary (model) - Demonstrates understanding of the interdependence of language and culture.
- 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.
- 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.