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Translation Lesson to help Students Improve Vocabulary and Writing Style
Students translate an entire Internet page from English into a target language. In small groups, they create a short story or document in their native tongue or find an Internet page in their own tongue that they translate into English.
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ESL English Exercises: Technology
For this ESL vocabulary worksheet, students fill in gaps in sentences, choosing verbs from a list. Sentences are about technology.
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ESL: Than, As, That
In this ESL vocabulary worksheet, students fill in blanks in sentences, choosing either "than," "as," or "that" from a drop down list.
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Countries of the World
Students in a ESL classroom examine a world map and study the various countries' names. The study the cultures of selected countries and create a vocabulary list. Finally they label an empty map with the countries' names and a short...
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ESL Word and Picture Matching: Jobs
In this ESL jobs vocabulary worksheet, learners analyze 7 pictures that show people in different careers. Students match these pictures to the words that describe them.
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Farm Animals ESL
For this ESL farm animals vocabulary worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures of farm animals and read the question next to each one. Students answer each question with yes or no. Example: It is a pig.
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ESL: The Weather
In this ESL weather vocabulary activity, learners analyze 7 pictures that depict different weather conditions. Students match the pictures to the words that describe them.
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Body Parts: ESL
For this ESL word and picture matching worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures that depict body parts. Students match these with the words that describe them.
ESL Kid Stuff
Morning Routines
Morning routines are the subject of this series of activities designed for language learners. Kids practice crafting questions and responses using the provided morning routine targeted vocabulary words.
ESL Kid Stuff
Pets & Possessions
Language learners engage in a series of games and activities using pet vocabulary and the verb "have" to show possession or ownership.
ESL Kid Stuff
Past Tense Activities - Irregular Verbs: Part 2
The second part of a two-part lesson on irregular past tense verbs prompts language learners to add four more verbs to the list of twelve they have been working with.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Person to Person: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 4)
Help language learners understand words and cultural concepts. The second installment in a series of three language development lessons designed to accompany Theme 4: Person to Person helps bridge the gap for language learners by...
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Modals and Their Meaning in Context
By focusing on an oil-related theme, learners answer questions using context clues. They assign meaning to each highlighted modal in an example sentence from a word bank of choices. (Examples of meaning choices include impossibility...
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Animal Encounters: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 6)
Denali National Park and the rain forests of Brazil are the settings for a series of lessons on animal encounters with grizzly bears and golden lion tamarins. The 32-page packet includes scripted lesson plans, activity suggestions, and...
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ESL: Beginning Vocabulary Matching
Beginning English Learners match 10 line-drawn pictures of basic nouns with their names, such as kite, airplane, goat, and igloo. Indefinite articles are included, so this exercise also provides reinforcement for the a/an rule.
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Making Sense of Homographs
What is a homograph? Develop your students' vocabulary with a word association tool. Language arts classes discover what a homograph is and how it can be used as a visual thesaurus. They discover the other uses for homographs such as...
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Intermediate Short Stories - "Making Dinner"
Primary learners read the basic and advanced version of the story "Making Dinner." They then answer 3 comprehension and 5 vocabulary questions.
English Club
Prefixes
The power of prefixes to change the meaning of words becomes clear to intermediate-level English language learners with a two-page worksheet. Individuals select a prefix from a provided list to alter words to match the meaning of...
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Classroom Objects
In this ESL vocabulary worksheet, students will focus on objects found in a classroom. Students will complete ten matching questions by connecting the picture in one column with the name of the object in the secondary column.
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Lesson Plan - ESL Vocabulary Lesson Plan - Opposites for Advanced Level Learners
Pupils in small groups work on opposites worksheet.
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What Job
In this occupation vocabulary worksheet, students fill in the blanks in twelve sentences by listing the occupation described in the sentence. The worksheet is intended to be used with beginning English language learners.
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Distracted by Everything - Being Wired at All Times
This multimedia activity challenges media-savvy learners to look at the critical issue concerning the inundation of technology and multitasking in the classroom, and its effects on the education of themselves and others. The tasks...
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Verbs and Rooms in the House
In this ESL rooms in the house vocabulary worksheet, students analyze 14 phrases that describe an activity that takes place inside a house. Students categorize each phrase by putting it under the names of 6 rooms in a house.
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ESL Advanced/Proficiency Vocabulary Worksheet 16
In this ESL advanced proficiency vocabulary worksheet, learners complete 10 sentences by choosing the best vocabulary word from the list of four given for each sentence.