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You have reached the Dictations section of Busy Teacher. Here you can see 14 free worksheets to use in your classes. When you find one that is appropriate for your students, simply download and print these ready to use activities. This dictation worksheet, for example, has a gap fill exercise and the teaching materials for an activity that will help students practice listening and writing. It also can be used as a review of letter structure. Due to its content, you can use this worksheet when you discuss politely accepting and declining invitations too. For additional practice, just have students check the answers aloud as a class. You may be covering a different topic but there are other worksheets to check out and you can save this one for an appropriate time.
Dictation is being used less frequently in ESL classrooms but it can be an excellent way for students to practice listening and writing. You can use these exercises to test spelling of specific vocabulary words and the punctuation of target structures. When combined with reading and speaking exercises, you will have a lesson that appeals to all different types of learners.
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What Are Dictations?
Dictation is the transcription of spoken text: one person who is "dictating" speaks and another who is "taking dictation" writes down the words as they are spoken. For speakers of French, la dictée is a school exercise that aims at testing the mastery of orthography and grammar. Since many features of French grammar are distinguished in writing but not in speech, this can be a challenging task. Certain dictées became famous for their difficulty or their interest, like those of Prosper Mérimée and Bernard Pivot. In several countries of the world (including Switzerland, France, Belgium, and Canada), the dictations are the subject of structured championships, similar to English spelling bees. In South Korea, badasseugi (Hangul: 받아쓰기) is a school exercise for children in the lower grades of elementary schools.
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Pre-Entry + Entry1 Phonology (2) Pre-Entry + Entry1 Phonology (2)This handout can be used after the students have been previously taught about some graphemes and simple words (e.g. "oo" / "ee"/ "th" / "all" / "ow" / "sh" / "ch"/ "ea" / "ing" / "ink" / "ame"/ "a ...
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Pre Entry + Entry 1 Phonology Pre Entry + Entry 1 PhonologyThis handout can be used after the students have been previously taught about some graphemes and simple words (e.g. "oo" / "ee"/ "th" / "all" / "ow" / "sh" / "ch"/ "ea" / "ing" / "in ...
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Auto-dictation Game Auto-dictation GameA wonderful and funny group work game. Very interesting and suitable for different levels...Objectives: This activity focuses on several skills development:- Vocabulary- Grammar- Spelling- Pronunc ...
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Shapes: Listening and Speaking Shapes: Listening and SpeakingThis is a very useful worksheet to practice shapes through listening and speaking. Teacher's words: Listen to the teacher's instructions and blacken the circle needed. e.g. TASK 1: BLACKEN the va ...
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rated by 10 teachers

Elementary
 
How To Write An Essay (+exercise) How To Write An Essay (+exercise)Very complete worksheet. "How To Write an Essay" guided notes: paragraphs, information, grammar, style, adverbs, usage, background, catch the interest, spelling, organization, thesis, verbs, verb ...
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rated by 29 teachers

All levels
 
Dictogloss - Nothing is as it seems Dictogloss - Nothing is as it seemsDictogloss is a classroom dictation activity where students are required to reconstruct a short text by listening and noting down key words, which are then used as a base for reconstruction. It ...
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Diagnostic Mechanics Assessment Diagnostic Mechanics AssessmentThis 32 item multiple choice diagnostic mechanics assessment includes commas, capitalization, ending punctuation, parentheses, and quotation marks. In other words, everything in the K-6 Common Cor ...
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Words Beginning With... and Ending With... Words Beginning With... and Ending With...Extracted from Merriam Webster's Dictionary (2000). This is a list of Words that begin with ANTI, AUTO, BI, DIS, EX, IM, IN, IR, MICRO, MIS, MONO, etc. There is also a list or words that ends ...
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Upper Intermediate and Advanced Exam Level
 
It or There (Advanced Level Worksheet) It or There (Advanced Level Worksheet)A very steady study about the differences between It and There with explanations, examples and exercises helping students with CAE and CPE levels. You have to crack a book sometimes in o ...
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Upper Intermediate and Advanced Exam Level
 
Topic Sentence and Controlling Idea Topic Sentence and Controlling IdeaIt is a good ppts about topic sentence.You can use it in your writing sessions. It is easy for your students to understand how to write a topic sentence. Thus,your students can overcome their prej ...
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Pre-Intermediate Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
Bullying in Schools (with teacher's notes)The lesson is suitable for elementary to low-intermediate learners. It's basically a reading lesson with some vocabulary, speaking and writing integrated into it. It pre-teaches some key vocabular ...
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Invitation Letter Gap-fill Invitation Letter Gap-fillThere's an answer for invitation. Students should complete the text with one word in each gap.
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Pre-Intermediate
 
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Upper Intermediate and Advanced
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