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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?

For Teachers 11th
Who would you love to see at your table? Groups research a decade, ranging from the 1840s to the 1960s, read a short story associated with that decade, and plan a dinner party, complete with table set-up and menu. After researching...
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Any Answers: Think of an Answer

For Students 5th - 9th
Help your English language learners develop speaking skills with this conversation practice. Speakers take turns reading and answering the questions provided. Also encourage your class to brainstorm when/where they would encounter these...
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A Pilgrim Conversation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students place quotation marks in the correct place in a conversation. They review correct placement with students copying down sentences from the board. They write their own conversation between two pilgrims to complete the lesson.
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Interview

For Students 2nd - 4th
English learners practice basic conversation skills with a worksheet that exercises progressive/continuous verb forms. They conjugate given words to form correct sentences. Their partner does the same. They ask each other the questions...
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Guess Who Came to Dinner!

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
An exceptionally creative approach is taken to assessing your biologists' grasp of natural selection concepts. They are to imagine hosting Charles Darwin for dinner and having, to their surpise, a few other noted scientists crash the...
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"May" and "Might" Questions

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In this ESL conversation worksheet, students collaborate with classmates to ask each other 15 questions. Students answer using either "may" or "might."
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Christmas: Conversation

For Students 7th - 8th
In this Christmas conversation worksheet, students read and discuss fourteen key questions regarding Christmas and past Christmas celebrations. The conversation starters could also be used as writing prompts.
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ESL Advanced Conversation-Quiz #6

For Students 5th - 8th
In this ESL advanced conversation worksheet, students match words with literal meanings and circle "going to" when it can correctly be reduced to "gonna."
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Tom's Day: ESL Conversations

For Students Higher Ed
In this ESL reading and conversation worksheet, students read a short passage about the daily routine of a man named Tom. Students discuss the story and talk about their own daily routines. Note: Part of Tom's daily routine is drinking...
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Conversation: Vacations

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this vacation worksheet, learners match words to pictures, answer multiple choice questions, read conversations, and more about vacations. Students complete 6 activities.
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Good Manners

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
It's never to early to introduce childen to good manners. It's often assumed that they will just "learn" them on their own, but that's not true! In this simple instructional activity, pupils practice using good manners and conversation...
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Going Out

For Students K - 12th
Let's go out to dinner! Provide early Spanish speakers with a quick reference guide and learning tool for common phrases related to a restaurant outing.
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Daily Routines

For Students 3rd - 6th
Start by listening to a short video involving conversation and dialogue. Listeners complete a variety of grammar tasks around the topic of daily routines. They complete seven lines of dialogue with 11 appropriate time periods. They also...
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It's My Treat

For Students 4th - 5th
In this conversation practice worksheet, students discuss the questions with a partner that relate to eating out. Students answer 9 questions.
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Character Tea Party

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
A tea party in Wonderland? An East Egg brunch with Gatsby, Daisy, Tom, and Nick? Breakfast with Miss Havisham, Lady Macbeth, and Abigail Williams? Or dinner with Andre, Hamlet, and Randle Patrick McMurphy? Class members select a favorite...
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BBC Learning English, Speaking (Pronunciation)

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
For this speaking worksheet, students identify which words to stress in a conversation between two people who have difficulty communicating. Students work in pairs to practice the conversation.
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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners work in groups to imagine, research and simulate a dinner party involving an author, a fictional character, and a significant historical figure as dinner guests. The activity uses Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and the time...
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My Likes And Dislikes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students practice conversational conventions when expressing their likes and dislikes, with a partner. Individually, they write a paragraph explaing a tiem when they felt acceptance or rejection.
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Thanksgiving Challenge

For Students 3rd - 6th
Set the Thanksgiving Day holiday table with a learning game that challenges participants to think critically about family members' likes and dislikes. Players scroll over a character to reveal what the requirements are for their seating...
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Verb Tenses

For Students 4th - 5th
Have the class complete a two-page grammar activity which includes fill-in-the-blank, completing sentences, and finishing a conversation to practice using proper verb form. They assess each of the 30 sentences and use the proper form of...
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Minding Your Manners

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students practice basic social etiquette skills. They view a video, write a thank you note with an addressed envelope, eat a dinner and simulate introductions and phone conversations. They identify accepted manners and demonstrate them.
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Turn Off the TV

For Students 4th - 6th
In this vocabulary usage online/interactive learning exercise, students fill in the blanks in sentences with vocabulary words from the word bank. Students fill in 10 blanks.
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Getting an Apartment

For Students 4th - 6th
In this online/interactive vocabulary worksheet, students use the words and phrases bank to fill in the blanks and complete the sentences. Students write 10 answers.
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Interview: "Going to"

For Students 5th - 6th
In this ESL worksheet, students talk to two Americans and ask them each eight questions. Each question has the words "going to". Students write down the answers given.