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Interpreting a Story from a News Article
Students read and retell a story form out of the newspaper. They write to communicate ideas, stories, letters, simple explanations, and short reports. They edit and perfect their projects for homework, and they share their work with the...
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Before the Tsunami
Students practice their conversation and writing skills as they strengthen their ability to talk and write about the past. In this ESL instructional activity, students narrate a series of past events using past simple verb forms. ...
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Using a Story: Miko the Monkey
Students discuss prior knowledge about monkeys with teacher and take a "Monkey Facts" quiz. In this language arts lesson, students make flash cards of vocabulary words and listen as teacher read Miko the Monkey. Students complete a...
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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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Speaking Skills - Asking Questions
Students improve speaking confidence when using difficult question forms. This lesson focuses on helping students explain how to engage in this kind of social conversation. A worksheet imbedded in this plan provides practice.
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
Daily Routines & Times of the Day
What time do you eat breakfast? Or go to school? Language learners practice crafting and answering questions about their daily routines.
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Using Reported Speech
Students fine tune their communication skills to include expressing the ideas of others, as well as their own opinions. They must practice a number of times before feeling comfortable using them in every day conversations.
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Continents and Oceans Word Search
In this geography activity, learners locate the names of 18 continents and oceans in a word search. Students write a C by the continents in the word bank and O for the oceans. Then learners identify 5 continents by looking at its shape.
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Tam Tam at the Park
In this dialogue worksheet, students fill in the blanks with the appropriate words. Students fill in the blanks for 15 dialogue sentences.
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Adele's Esl Corner: Present Simple Tense 1
Change the verbs to correct present tense in each of the ten sentences in this exercise.
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Esl Blue(s): Grammar/double Quiz/simple Present
An interactive "double quiz" over the simple present forms of verbs and trivia questions. Answers and hints are provided.
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Isabel's Esl Site: Present Simple Tense
Present simple, explained, with examples and exercises. Clear and easy to follow. ESL students could work on this site alone. Some guidance in Spanish.
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Isabel's Esl Site: Past Simple Tense
The English past simple is presented clearly, with examples and exercises. ESL students could use this site on their own. Some guidance in Spanish.
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Using english.com: English Grammar Quizzes & Worksheets
A nice treasure trove of printable grammar worksheets organized by proficiency level: beginner, intermediate, and advanced. Emphasis is on parts of speech but you'll also find some that focus on common spelling issues and vocabulary...
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Esl Verbs: Present Simple Questions
This site has examples of some common mistakes when forming questions using the present simple verb tense. The correct form is given along with some of the more common errors.
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Abcteach: Grammar
[Free Registration/Login Required] Every grammar teacher will love finding this site filled with ready-made activity worksheets to practice basic grammar skills. Some include compound sentences, prepositions of location (with pictures),...
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Esl Verbs: Present Simple Affirmative
Troublesome verb forms using the present simple affirmative for ESL speakers/writers. Examples of the incorrect use of the verb along with corrected form.
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Esl Verbs: Present Simple Negative
Examples of some troublesome verb forms using the present simple negative.