Curated OER
Soup to Nuts
Students explore the concept of idioms as they learn about philanthropy. For this literature and service learning lesson, students read Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen and examine negative idioms. Students reflect on hurtful language...
Curated OER
ESL: Body Parts Matching
Match drawings of basic body parts with their names. A handy tool for teachers of beginning ELLs.
Curated OER
Valentine's Day Hearts
Students consider idiomatic expressions that use the word, "heart". They illustrate an assigned idiom and present it to the class. They use the illustrations to guess which idiom is being represented.
Curated OER
ESL: Around Town Matching
Tiny pictures of buildings found around town can be matched with their names in this exercise for beginning English Learners. Indefinite articles are included with vocabulary; nice way to reinforce the "a/an" rule. Pictures are quite...
Curated OER
ESL: What's the Weather Like?
Beginning English learners practice describing the weather with help from eight picture clues. Questions are phrased like "How's the weather?" and "What's the weather like?" Tinker with the formatting to make it all fit on one page...
Curated OER
Ancient Rome
Students complete pre reading, writing, during reading, and interdisciplinary activities for the book Ancient Rome. In this reading lesson plan, students complete journal entries, go over vocabulary, answer short answer questions, have...
Curated OER
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.
Curated OER
ESL: Classmates Survey
Get your beginning English Learners moving with this class survey. They ask each other the 8 questions provided to find out "How many of your classmates..." Good practice for asking questions that start with"Do you..." including "make...
Curated OER
ESL: Practice Using Present Progressive Tense
Small, cartoonish pictures of people expressing emotions and actions (blowing his nose, holding her head and frowning, dancing, smiling) provide the basis for writers to describe the feelings and experiences taking place. Help your ESL...
Curated OER
Valentine's Day hearts
Students use Valentine's Day to use figurative language in English. This is a great lesson for ESL students (who may not have much experience with this holiday), to engage in social conversation with their peers.
TESL Journal
Activities for Esl Students: Self Study Idiom Quizzes
Vast array of quizzes and self-study exercises based on idioms and idiomatic expressions, categorized in a variety of ways (beginning with A, B, etc., by keyword, or by association with other groupings). Great practice for the ELL/ESL...
InterLink Language Centers
Esl Resource Center: Vocabulary and Idioms
Several short lessons and pop quizzes for practicing English vocabulary and idioms.
TESL Journal
Activities for Esl Students: Vocabulary Quizzes Difficult
These self-test, self-scoring quizzes developed for English language learners by ELL teachers are designed for intermediate-to-advanced English language learners. Features include vocabulary important to both social and academic...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Hot or Cold
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains 10 phrases that should have either the word hot or cold in it. The students should use the Activotes to vote if they think the missing word is hot or cold. Space is there for...
Cosmo Learning
Cosmo Learning: Esl Listening, Speaking, and Pronunciation
A series of four video lessons for English language learners, focusing on listening, speaking, and pronunciation in English. The lessons focus on producing accurate sounds, listening to rapidly-spoken English, and understanding idioms...
InterLink Language Centers
Esl Resource Center: Pronunciation Skills
Several short lessons with pop quizzes, including audio, for practicing English vocabulary and idioms.
Charles I. Kelly and Lawrence E. Kelly
Many things.org: Words and Their Stories
Listen and read along to several articles about common idioms, proverbs, adages, and interesting words to enhance English learning students' vocabulary.
Dave's ESL Cafe
Dave's Esl Cafe
A brightly-colored spot to stop and pick up tid-bits about the goings-on in the world of ESL. Dave supplies "Stuff for Teachers" as well as "Stuff for Students." Find idioms, quizzes, slang, a job center for teachers, idea cookbook, and...
Everything ESL
Everything Esl: Hats Off to You!
In the lesson, "Hats Off to You", younger students will learn about world occupations and costumes. Older students will be able to learn idioms about hats. The site features downloads and resources.