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What's Your Favorite Food?
Advanced beginner to intermediate ESL level learners, use English to communicate in social settings by conducting a survey. They ask questions to develop new vocabulary and build communication skills.
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James Taylor--
Here's a fun activity to help ELL learners identify verbs. The lyrics to "You've Got a Friend" by James Taylor are written out with several of the verbs missing. Learners listen to the song and fill in the missing verbs.
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Word Search #10:
This small word search challenges ELL learners to locate as many words as they can in the word search. This would be a good extra credit or fun activity. There is no theme to the word search.
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Beginning Sentence Correction 20
Learners read simple sentences and correct the errors they find in each sentence. This activity could be used with beginning ESL learners.
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Expressing Yourself #2
ESL learners complete sentences that are expressions about themselves. This worksheet provides learners with an opportunity to learn and use vocabulary related to activities and interests they have personally.
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Beginning Sentence Correction 18
Students identify and correct the usage errors of is and are in the 6 sentences. The sentences are basic making this activity appropriate for beginning ESL learners.
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Beginning Sentence Correction 5
In this worksheet, students correct the errors in verb tense and syntax in each simple sentence. This worksheet could be used as a warm-up activity with ESL learners.
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Beginning Sentence Correction 4
In this worksheet, students correct the errors in verb tense and syntax in each simple sentence. This worksheet could be used as a warm-up activity with ESL learners.
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Parts of Speech: Adverbs
This worksheet provides a good explanation of adverbs and several examples as well. Learners are asked to underline the adverbs in 18 sentences. This would be a good practice worksheet to us with ESL learners.
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Word Search #11: Flight
In this learning exercise, ESL learners locate words related to the word flight. This is a very basic word search and might be useful as extra credit.
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Christmas Games
Your class will practice language and dialog skills by playing games associated with Christmas through these lesson ideas. Learners practice English conversation skills while simultaneously acquiring insight into their new culture. Games...
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Memoirs and Personal Essays
Students can then pinpoint problems the characters experience and interview their parents to see if they too may have once faced a similar problem. Interviews with family members can be recorded by students in their home language.
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Civil Rights/Segregation
Sixth graders investigate Civil Rights by participating in role-playing activities. In this U.S. History lesson, 6th graders research the history of slavery in order to portray a story through their debating and acting abilities. ...
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Storytelling Traditions
Students demonstrate an evaluation of how the culture of a time period influences storytelling narratives by comparing Adeline's story to the plot summary of Cinderella and Anne Sexton's poem Cinderella. They write a poem which reworks a...
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Women Immigrants in the Promised Land
Students examine the experience of female immigrants as they arrive in the United States. They create a timeline of women's rights in the U.S., write journal entries, conduct Internet research and read online excerpts from "The Promised...
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Newcomers Learn Local History
Students that are English Language Learners (ELL) work individually and in small groups to conduct research on their community. They compile the results of their research, write a report, and create a presentation slideshow. Pupils add...
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Travel Vocabulary
Students participate in a discussion of various travel destinations. Working with the instructor, individual students choose a travel destination of interest to them. They discuss the vocabulary and create meaning for the new words that...
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How Weather Affects Our Lives
English learners practice basic weather terms from listening to two books. They keep a daily weather record for two weeks to record the type of weather, as well as the high and low temperatures for each day. Next, they complete a simple...
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Exploring Careers
The world is full of possibilities for your ELLs. Help them explore their career options with a lesson that incorporates Internet research and expository writing. Not only will they learn more about their careers of choice, but both...
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Santa Claus Around the World
Learn about the legend of Santa Claus around the world in ESL holiday plan. In it, learners explore the many ways that Santa Claus is depicted in cultures around the world. There are some excellent masters included in the plan that help...
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Question Review
Younger and older ELL students could benefit from an exploration of how to change a statement to a question. Using this 8 question activity learners can practice writing questions after being given pertinent information.
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Frog and Toad Are Friends
Second graders complete pre reading, writing, during reading, and interdisciplinary activities for the book Frog and Toad are Friends. In this reading lesson plan, 2nd graders complete journal entries, go over vocabulary, answer short...
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Cultural Creation Myths
Students write original plays based on supernatural explanations of existence. In this cultural creation myths instructional activity, students listen to five different stories about supernatural creation. Students record similarities...
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Plant Cell Crime Scene
Use science to solve the mystery of the Poplar murder. Pupils use forensic botany to determine if a suspect could be the killer. By analyzing images from a Transmission Electron Microscope, learners determine if the material found on the...