Curated OER
Talking about Food, Expressing Likes and Dislikes
Young scholars explore foods. In this nutrition lesson, students chorally respond to questions about a kitchen PowerPoint, complete a Venn diagram about breakfast and lunch foods, and play a food Bingo game.
Curated OER
Day Three: Reading menus; writing letters
Students practice English vocabulary in menus and food items. In this ELL lesson plan, students look at pictures of people eating and describe what they are doing. They talk about the food that they like and dislike and describe why.
Curated OER
Foods and Beverages
Students practice ordering food in a new language. In this food vocabulary lesson, students utilize the information from their previous lesson to create entire conversations about going to get food, as opposed to just the vocabulary...
Curated OER
Day One: Dinner foods and beverages
Students learn English vocabulary for dinner foods and beverages. In this ELL instructional activity, students create a list of healthy foods and discuss good food habits. They discuss healthy activities and exercises.
Curated OER
Food Preferences and Healthful Eating
Students discuss healthy eating habits. For this food preferences lesson, students read a scenario about teenagers visiting a restaurant. Students role play the story and complete a graphic organizer.
Curated OER
Discussing One's Health
Students explore common health issues. In this health and literacy lesson, students match simple health statements with appropriate visual representations. Students prepare and perform dialogues in which health issues are the main topic.
Curated OER
Advice, Encouragement, Discouragement
Students create a fitness schedule for a famous person. In this advice, encourage, discourage lesson, students ask questions to determine the best fitness schedule for a person. Students relate this activity to that of giving advice,...
Curated OER
Letters and Photos
Students practice using a new language by reading letters. For this foreign language lesson, students read a fictional letter by a young person from the target language's country. Students read the letters separately, but collaborate...
Curated OER
Expressions of Frequency
Students practice discussing timely manners in a target language. For this foreign language lesson, students discuss words that represent frequency such as never or often. Students create a timeline illustrating how often they perform...
Curated OER
Day Four: Surveys and results
Students use expressions of frequency in the English language. In this ELL instructional activity, student survey their classmates and turn the information into a class bar graph.
Curated OER
Location, Frequency, Likes, and Dislikes
Students identify and write short sentences with likes and dislikes, frequency, and location. In this short sentences lesson plan, students read the sentences, identify what is asked, orally practice saying sentences, and then write...
Curated OER
Describing Family Members
Fourth graders examine the use of possessives when describing family members. In this ESL family description lesson, 4th graders examine the role of family in their native language before looking at pictures of families assigning names...
Curated OER
Planning a Class Party
Students investigate event planning. In this literacy and communications lesson, students brainstorm food, activity, and guest ideas for a monthly classroom celebration of student birthdays.
Curated OER
Home Tour
In this exchange student lesson plan, students create a story about an exchange student. Students draw a map to show the location of community buildings and practice providing directions from location to location.
Curated OER
Day Three: Dear Diary
Learners contrast an exchange student's house with their original home. For this home lesson, students listen to a diary entry written by an exchange student. They create a triptych miniature book and draw the differences between the...
Curated OER
Jeopardy Game
Students practice discovering a target language by playing a game of Jeopardy. In this foreign language lesson, students utilize their target language vocabulary to answer Jeopardy style questions they prepared the day before. Students...
Curated OER
A Look at Geography
Students discover geographical places and terms in another language. In this geographical identification lesson, students utilize their geographical vocabulary to describe to other classmates where they would like to go or where they...
Curated OER
Day Four: Environmental Responsibility
Young scholars discuss environmental responsibility. In this environment lesson, students create a story with the teacher with four made up characters. They have these characters do environmentally responsible and irresponsible behaviors...
Curated OER
The Clothes Line
Students practice using clothing related vocabulary in a class game. In this descriptive words lesson, students utilize newly learned vocabulary words to describe what a classmate is wearing. Students participate in a game where...
Curated OER
Buying Clothes
Students create a story about friends going shopping with new vocabulary. In this creating a story lesson plan, students use new language and number words in their story.
Curated OER
Bargaining
Students create a newspaper or magazine advertisement for clothing and personal items. Students make statements of preference regarding these items. Students engage in a role play where two people are bargaining for various items.
Curated OER
Travel Photos
Students describe photographs. In this travel photos lesson, students view a slide-show of travel photos in order to assist them with developing photo captions. Students describe details, events, and persons from the photos in the...
Curated OER
Telephone Game
Students practice their listening comprehension by playing the "telephone" game. In this foreign language activity, students listen to a story read by a teacher in their target language and try to remember the details by writing 5...
Curated OER
Charades
Students play a charades game to communicate what they like or don't like when they travel. For this travel lesson plan, students play the charades and then read and write sentences about a past traveling experience.