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After class discussion, have students draw a picture relating to one abstract concept from the reading. Some discussion might be necessary on the difference between “abstract” and &ldq ...
It is an activity that can be used at several levels, because all kinds of vocabulary can be used. The larger the room, the better the activity, as the word passes through several students before ...
After students have come in having read on a topic such as about the role of fathers in contemporary society, for example, have them spend a few minutes writing their ideas on the topic. It can be ...
A set of flashcards on the days of the week, months and seasons. To be used according to age and level of your students as memory games, conversation cards, etc. Contains colourful images to enco ...
Learning passive voice is necessary because so much of academic writing is composed in the passive form (note the prior clause, for example).
However, students often don’t understand the pa ...
Make a boring grammar review of verb tenses, for example, more interesting by personalizing it. After reviewing major verb tenses, such as simple present and present continuous, personalize it by ...
Discussion cards on Zodiac Signs vocabulary and personality adjectives. The aim of the activity is to learn adjectives describing personality, and mainly motivate students to get involved in discu ...
At the beginning of class, have students brainstorm and put on index cards key words related to their reading. If the topic is family structure, for example, key terms might be “nuclear fam ...
After studying a topic, like the cultural foundations of family, work with students to compose a haiku on the board. Give the rules of haiku: a poem of seventeen syllables and three lines (five s ...
This Power Point is the first part about techniques that you can use in your classroom, how to increase your options, making decisions, classroom interaction, teacher and student talk, teacher's ...
To introduce the unreal or second conditional, the “If I were rich, I would buy a big house” construction, pass out the lyrics to “If I Were a Rich Man” from the musical &l ...
After reading on an academic topic, such as the history and spread of the AIDS pandemic, have students create a metaphor on the topic. Model this for them, perhaps drawing from the reading, and gi ...
After a class discussion and reading on a topic like public education in the U.S., have students write an animal fable that ends in a moral related to the topic. Show a model of an animal fable as ...
At the end of a course, have students write a letter to future students with advice for succeeding in the class. Go over language for advice as necessary: “You should—,” &ld ...
This activity occurs after students have read and given feedback on a peer’s essay. After the students have read and discussed what they liked and what they thought needed work on each othe ...
This is a set of speaking cards on DESCRIBING PEOPLE each card contains a Picture and related information: name, age , country, physical description, clothes and interests. Students pick up a card ...
This coloring sheet is ideal to teach elementary students (third or fourth grade) vocabulary about animals and what they eat. The students can trace and paint while learning new vocabulary. This c ...
On days when students have writing due, such as a paragraph or an essay, have them exchange work with a peer. They are then asked to read and respond to their peers’ writing. The distinction ...
Flashcards about days of the week presented by beautiful and colorful clowns to help children memorize the new vocabulary. When printed on A4-sized sheets, they can also be used as classroom poste ...
After watching a movie, take time the day after to introduce the concept of summarizing, which is actually a fairly complex skill. After the movie has been viewed, the teacher can ask, “How ...
On the first day of class, get students in small groups and hand out the course syllabus/outline along with about ten questions on critical points of the syllabus. Have students within their group ...
This is a classroom language poster for your young students with sentences and images so they can understand them. It can be used to teach basic vocabulary related to commands and class rules.
As a pre-reading activity, give students a short questionnaire based on the content of the reading and addressing common misconceptions in that reading. For example, if the topic of the reading is ...
I use this warmer with adults who are at Pre-Intermediate level. On a separate piece of paper, each student writes his/her problem or trouble they have. Then I ask them to rumple the paper and thr ...
Begin a lesson on quoting and paraphrasing by writing the beginning of a famous movie quote on the board: “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a—“ At least one student will u ...
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