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Improving Speaking Skills in the Language Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 12th
How can you create an "English-free" classroom for your foreign language learners? This year, use some of these strategies to maximize your students' opportunity to communicate in the language.
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Practicing and Administering the Speaking Section of the AP World Language Exams

For Teachers 12th
Will you be proctoring an advanced placement test this year? Optimize testing conditions and increase scores with these suggestions. Organized by scenario, this article is an easy read.
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BBC Learning English, Speaking (Pronunciation)

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this speaking worksheet, learners 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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Pre-AP Strategies for French Language and Culture

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Build vocabulary, fluency and confidence in your French speakers by having them participate in some of these engaging activities. Several suggestions are given, but you will have to design the actual lesson plan yourself.
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Studying The Catcher in the Rye

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
What's the difference between being a phony and being a conformist? At what point does conforming to alleviate loneliness lead to insincerity? These are the questions at the heart of this unit plan that uses The Catcher in the Rye as an...
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What Goes Up Must Come Down

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
From understanding stock market performance and return on investment to identifying the costs and benefits of credit and avoiding debt problems, this is an absolute must-have resource for financial planning and literacy.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Unit: Hamlet

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Encourage readers to determine if Hamlet's madness is actually divinest sense. Class members analyze the words of the play before studying related texts, including T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," scenes from...
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BBC Learning English, Working Abroad/Speaking

For Students 10th - 12th
In this working and speaking abroad worksheet, students develop specific questions related to given categories. Students are then asked to find classmates who fit into the categories and can answer the questions.
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Are Exams a Waste of Time?

For Students 7th - 9th
In this test taking strategies worksheet, students, with a partner, to discuss and complete a variety of questions associated with exams and an English test.
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Writing About Informational Text: Music and the Brain

For Students 6th Standards
Even if you've never picked up a musical instrument, chances are that music has directly impacted your mental and emotional development. Sixth graders engage in a reading activity in which they read two articles on the impact of music on...
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ESL Conversation: Advice Mingle Activity

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In this ESL advice mingle activity worksheet, students move around the classroom asking their classmates for advice on problems they may have. They may also use the 20 problems listed on the worksheet.
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Washington Township Public Schools

Using Paired Text

For Teachers 4th Standards
Paired reading passages frequently appear on standardized exams, but finding text sets to use in the classroom is sometimes a challenge. A lesson plan on using paired texts includes a selection of passages and a graphic organizer for...
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The Verb

For Students 6th - 8th
How are linking verbs and action verbs different? First, study the definitions and examples of each (at the top of the first page). Then, assess the comprehension skills of your class by having them complete the 20-question practice...
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Practice PT - The Internet and Society

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Speaking of the Internet. The culminating lesson for the unit on the Internet challenges pupils to prepare short, two-minute speeches on an issue facing society. The pupils chose from three topics that connect the Internet and society,...
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Math: Real Time and Live

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Get an interdisciplinary edge. Scholars study air contamination and slope. They record the time it takes for air fresheners to reach them at variable distances. They document their times, classify them by distance, and draw a scatter...
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Pleasanton Unified School District

AP Psychology Final Project Choices

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Looking for a way to keep AP learners engaged after the exam? AP Psychology class members engage in self-analysis and present themselves to their colleagues by choosing one of two interesting project choices. Individuals may prepare a CD...
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Go Away, Go Out and Leave Exercise

For Students 5th - 10th
In this vocabulary skills worksheet, students respond to 15 fill in the blank questions regarding the use of "go away", "go out", and "leave". Students also write 3 original sentences.
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Better English Lessons: Grammar Skills, "If" #2

For Students 6th - 10th
In this online interactive English skills worksheet, students respond to 20 multiple choice questions that require them to select the appropriate words to complete the sentences. Answers are scored immediately.
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Blackboard Baseball

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders prepare eight questions about the topic they are studying.  In this board baseball review lesson game, questions are rated from easy to difficult and haw many bases students receive. The  students are grouped in two teams...
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Where Do You Stand?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Scholars assess a government's ability to intervene in personal health decisions. They research basic facts about euthanasia and describe their opinions about new legislation passed in the United States Congress about an individual's...
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CAREER STEPPING STONES

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the skills, qualifications and experience needed for different jobs. They listen to an MP talking about how she got into politics and work out the first five-steps of their own career path.
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Business Questions (1)

For Students 9th - 12th
In this English worksheet, learners, with a partner, interview their partner about several topics including general information, motivation for studying English and personal language learning experiences.
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Activity
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Biology Mural Project

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students express knowledge in an unconventional mode which encourages creativity, analytical skills and cooperation within a group. This lesson stimulates pride in students because they are able to showcase their abilities.
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Blackboard Baseball

For Teachers 3rd - Higher Ed
Students create review questions and answers based on information they have been studying, then play a review baseball game.