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The Old House

For Students 4th - 5th
In this ESL conversation worksheet, students read a report on the condition of an old house that needs repairing. In small groups or in partners, students discuss what needs to be done to repair the house.
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Dream Questionnaire

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In this ESL dream questionnaire worksheet, students practice conversation by working with another students to find out something about his/her dreams. Students ask and answer 10 questions.
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Find Someone Who..

For Students 5th - 6th
In this ESL conversation worksheet, students mingle with classmates to find names of students who can answer "yes" to one of the 25 questions. All questions have the words "got" or "get."
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Can I Ask You...?

For Students 4th - 5th
For this ESL conversation worksheet, students survey classmates by asking 11 questions about personal information or preferences.
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Is There A TV..?

For Students 6th - 7th
In this ESL common household items vocabulary worksheet, students practice conversation by asking classmates if they have any of the 12 items in their homes. Some of the questions are confusing.
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What's In Your Fridge?

For Students 5th - 6th
In this ESL conversation worksheet, students collaborate with a classmate to discuss the 14 food items listed. Students talk about whether they have "a lot" or "a few" of the items in their refrigerator. Students also use the words...
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Liar Liar!!

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In this ESL conversation worksheet, students collaborate with a partner to ask and answer 10 personal questions. Students must answer some of the questions truthfully and some with a lie; partners try to guess which answers are true.
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Speaking Practice- Past Tense Review

For Students 5th - 6th
In this speaking practice worksheet, students collaborate with a classmate. Students finish the conversation sentences any way they like.
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Are You a Good Listener?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Your learners talk to each other every day, but are they really listening? Use a lesson based on listening skills to ensure that class members feel heard and respected. It includes games, discussion topics, and self-assessment tools that...
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Reported Speech Survey

For Students 4th
In this conversation worksheet, 4th graders walk around the classroom asking each other ten to twenty simple questions from flash cards in order to improve their conversation and speech skills in English.
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What Had Happened?

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In this ESL conversation starter activity, students work in partners to read each of 16 situations. Students try to guess what happened immediately before. Then the partners read the cause.
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Susan Marsh- Student A and Student B

For Students 6th - 7th
In this ESL conversation starter learning exercise, learners collaborate with a partner, each person filling in the blanks in an identical biography. Students compare their results and talk about them.
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Which is the Biggest?

For Students 1st
In this conversation worksheet, 1st graders, working with a partner, team up to discuss forty various different categories of people and things to see which one of them are the biggest using comparative and superlative terms.
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Favorite Things

For Students 1st
In this conversation worksheet, 1st graders participate in a student to student survey to ask their classmates about fourteen of their favorite things by only using the verb "to be."
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Find Someone Who (Routines)

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this ESL conversation activity, students circulate among classmates and ask 7 questions. Students find someone who fits the criteria in each question. Example: Find someone who wakes up at 6 o'clock in the morning.
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Halloween Survey

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this ESL conversation survey instructional activity, students examine 7 pictures of Halloween scary creatures. Students ask each other if they are scared of this thing and record the answers of their classmates.
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Fruit Survey

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this ESL survey worksheet, students practice conversation skills by collaborating with classmates in a survey. Students examine 7 pictures of fruit and survey 3 classmates as to whether or not they like each fruit.
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Party Time!

For Students 7th - 9th
In this discussion prompts worksheet, students, with a partner, discuss seven party phrases, use those phrases in seven sentences, define party in six different scenarios and start a conversation with ten key questions.
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Introductory Lesson for Lower Intermediate Classes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students introduce and converse with classmates as they review basic tense structures.
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ESL: Warm-up Activities

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders practice conversation skills during various warm-up activities. They ask questions of each other on a host of topics including transportation, weather, and movies.
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Have You Seen Jill? A Business ESL Role-play

For Teachers 5th - Higher Ed
Students practice role-playing to use relative clauses and to describe people. In this ESL lesson, students use verbal expressions to describe the actions of people in an office. Students work with a partner to initiate conversation to...
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Interview: Talking About the Future

For Students 5th - 6th
In this conversation worksheet, students collaborate with classmates and ask 10 questions about future plans that include the words "going to". Students answer the questions.
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Words in the News: Stem Cell Research

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
A thorough resource for intermediate English learners addresses reading comprehension of informational texts, adjective forms, vocabulary acquisition, and writing in a journalistic style. Specifically, the class reads about stem cell...
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Telephone Messages

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Learners practice having telephone conversations. They create their own phone message after practicing with each other. They also identify the different parts of a telephone.

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