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My Living Arrangements
Students identify various housing options, focusing on rental vs. purchase and short vs. long term. With a partner, students discuss their housing situation. Once their discussion is complete, students write a brief paragraph weighing...
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Personal Hygiene Regimen
Students identify and describe the importance of maintaining good personal hygiene. Individual students write a paragraph describing their personal hygiene regimen. Products used for personal hygiene are identified. This lesson is...
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Benefits Of Medical Insurance
Students compare and contrast the cost of medical care with or without insurance. Students differntiate between public and private clinics. They write a description of an ache or pain to share with a medical professional. This lesson...
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Making Polite Conversation
Students become familiar with the polite forms of conversation that are used in this country. They role play making requests using polite forms. Students write an appropriate thank you not to a host or hostess. This instructional...
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Who Are Your Local Officials?
Students identify the names and positions held by local public officials. In pairs, students research the requirements and duties needed to hold office. A brief presentation of their research will include the names and positions of...
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Schedule Changing Prepositions
Students discuss the appropriate and inappropriate reasons for requesting a schedule change at work. They create scripts for requesting a change that uses appropriate prepositions and prepositional phrases. Students practice using...
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Filing A Conusmer Complaint
Students discuss what makes good service and poor servies. They brainstorm ways to file a complaint when they receive poor service. Students work in pairs to practice making a consumer complaint verbally and in writing. This lesson is...
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Comparing Transportation Systems
Students compare and contrast various forms of transportation. Comparisons are based on the the distance traveled and the student's personal experiences with that form of transport. This lesson is intended for students acquiring English.
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Equal Opportunity Employment
Students list and discuss the types of discrimination they are protected from under the EEOC. The class brainstorms ideas for protecting themselsevles against employment discrimination. Students write a summary paragraph discussing the...
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Job Safety Vocabulary Review
Students review vocabulary associated with job safety. They identify and explain the role of OSHA and Right To Know. Students play a game to review their job safety vocabulary.
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Rules For Succeeding At Work
Learners discuss and list examples of work ethic and job motivation. Appropriate dress for different job types is discussed as well as proper work etiquette including absenteeism and tardiness. Students create rules for succeeding at...
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Introducing...Me
Students practice rephrasing techniques to ask and answer questions in order to maintain conversational exchanges. Students create scripts about themselves to use as conversation starters. This lesson is intended for students acquiring...
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Numbers and Colors
In this numbers and colors activity, students listen to the words and color the objects in front of them. Students complete 4 activities. This is good for an ELL student.
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ACE Expert English Homework Week 4
For this ESL worksheet, students complete 6 pages of activities pertaining to prepositions of place. This worksheet can be used by any ELL but is aimed at students from Thailand.
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ACE Expert English Homework- July 12, 2006
In this ESL worksheet, students complete 8 pages of exercises designed for ELL students from Thailand. Activities included are writing sentences, completing dialogs, and matching phrases and pictures.
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Airport English: A Role-Play for ESL
Students explore the skills needed to navigate an airport. In this foreign language instructional activity, students discuss the skills they will need in order to make it through customs with as little trouble as possible.
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Have You Seen Jack?
Students study relative clauses and appositives. For this ESL lesson, students role play. Students use relatives clauses and appositives to describe people. Students use dialogue.
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Say and Spell Long Vowel Bossy E Board Game
Students practice saying and spelling long vowel "bossy E" words. In this spelling activity, students play a board game that requires them to look at a picture, say and spell the word. The first person to the end wins.
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Ribbit! Ribbit!
Learners research a frog's life cycle and habitat using books, the Internet and lecture. Students make origami frogs, write letters to Toad from Arnold Lobel's "Frog and Toad" and participate in a simulated camouflage activity.
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Electron Current Flow
Students observe how an electrical current passes through a conductor and the relationship between voltage and resistance. In this investigative lesson students participate in an activity that allows them to see the correlation between...
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Phonics Floor Game: Short Vowels
Turn your phonics instruction into a game! First, hop on to word family foot prints to match the short vowel sound cards. Then, take the game to the next level; write a word on the foot print that has the same word family sound.
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Off to Adventure!: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 1)
Give language skills a boost with a series of ESL lessons in an Off to Adventure! themed unit. Using a speak, listen, move, and look routine, scholars enhance proficiency through grand conversation and skills practice. Discussion topics...
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Science Experiments with Eggs
ESL students experiment with eggs to learn the science concepts and science process language.
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Calling in Sick
Young scholars create a dialog for calling in sick to work. Dialogs must be created for single and multiple absences. Working with a partner, students practice their dialogs. This lesson is designed for young scholars acquiring English.