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Expressions of Frequency
Students practice discussing timely manners in a target language. In this foreign language lesson, students discuss words that represent frequency such as never or often. Students create a timeline illustrating how often they perform...
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Day Four: Surveys and results
Students use expressions of frequency in the English language. In this ELL lesson, student survey their classmates and turn the information into a class bar graph.
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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...
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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...
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Planning a Class Party
Learners investigate event planning. In this literacy and communications lesson, students brainstorm food, activity, and guest ideas for a monthly classroom celebration of student birthdays.
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Home Tour
In this exchange student instructional activity, 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.
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Day Three: Dear Diary
Students contrast an exchange student's house with their original home. In 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...
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Jeopardy Game
Learners 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. Learners...
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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...
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Day Four: Environmental Responsibility
Students discuss environmental responsibility. In this environment instructional activity, students create a story with the teacher with four made up characters. They have these characters do environmentally responsible and irresponsible...
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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...
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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.
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Bargaining
Learners create a newspaper or magazine advertisement for clothing and personal items. Students make statements of preference regarding these items. Learners engage in a role play where two people are bargaining for various items.
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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...
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Telephone Game
Students practice their listening comprehension by playing the "telephone" game. In this foreign language lesson, students listen to a story read by a teacher in their target language and try to remember the details by writing 5...
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Charades
Students play a charades game to communicate what they like or don't like when they travel. In this travel lesson plan, students play the charades and then read and write sentences about a past traveling experience.
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Silent Movie
Learners examine the impact of movies and television. In this communication lesson, students share filmstrips that lack sound and determine the genre of the segments. Learners discuss popular movies and television shows from different...
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Time Capsule
Students create a rough draft for a time capsule project. In this time capsule lesson plan, students bring in items to put into a time capsule and write a rough draft to submit to their teacher.
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Communicating with My World
Students create a time capsule. In this oral presentation and history preservation lesson plan, students provide feedback for their time capsule project, work with a partner to write an oral presentation, and present their time capsule...
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Daily Routines
Students describe the daily routine of a person using a different language. In this foreign language vocabulary lesson, students discuss the different items people use to get ready every day and practice using those vocabulary terms....
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Grooming Activity
Learners discover the essential items to properly groom for a nice event. In this cleaning habits lesson, students discuss and identify important cleaning items such as a brush, shower gel, cologne, etc. Learners create a chart and...
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Planning an outing
Learners create a scenario where they go on a date with another person and write a draft of their presentation in the form of a fashion show. In this scenario lesson plan, students do all of this in the foreign language they are studying.
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Writing A Story
Students write a story about past events and translate it into English. In this story writing lesson plan, students watch video clips, look at examples of stories, and write ones themselves.
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Transportation Lesson
Students practice using transportation vocabulary in a foreign language. In this language arts lesson, students utilize the vocabulary terms for locations in order to give directions and find a specific place. Students answer a...