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What Words Go Together? At the end of class, review the reading and vocabulary by discussing what words together or collocation. This is an important by often-ignored area of language. Select a word from the text, and pu ...

Underlining Text After doing some in class reading, have students get out their pencils or markers and underline or mark key ideas. The teacher can model this for them as necessary, perhaps passing out her marked ...

TV Commercial In the last part of class, have students create a TV commercial involving the course content of the day. Remind them of the purpose of a TV commercial, to persuade the viewer to buy something. The ...

My Resume/Curriculum Vitae At the end of a lesson introducing terminology for jobs, have students design their own resumes. The teacher may pass out her own resume and discuss information that typically goes into one, such ...

Press Conference At the end of class, have students come together and create a “press conference,” a plan to meet the press, played by the teacher. Students’ job is to report on a specific aspect ...

My Partner's Biography On one of the first days of class, have students interview each other in pairs and then write short one paragraph biographies of their partners. The teacher should start the lesson going over the ...

One-Sentence Summary After reading a story or article in class, have students work in pairs to create a one-sentence summary. One person writes while the other refers to the reading to come up with ways to summarize t ...

Create a New Ending At the end of class after watching a movie or reading a story, have students create a new ending for the story. Begin by asking, “What would happen if John and Mary didn’t get married? ...

Muddiest Point After a reading or lecture, have students write for several minutes about what they view as having been the “muddiest” or most difficult or unclear portion of the material. They can th ...

Make a Scene After reading a narrative passage, such as a story or narrative essay, have students work in groups to create scenes from that reading. They assign the roles, and then perform the scene. They may ...

Interview an Author After students complete a reading, have them “interview” the author. Have them brainstorm some ideas of what they would like to ask the author, such as “When did you first become ...

Incorporating Outside Sources After introducing to students how to paraphrase and quote, a good follow-up activity is to practice incorporating sources. The teacher should a position related to a current reading on the board: ...

Write an Ending Play the beginning of a popular TV series, such as an episode of the detective series “Monk” or an older series such as the comedy “Friends.” It should be a series with hal ...