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On the first day of class, have students fill out a profile on a 3”x5” card. Along with name and contact information, have them list one interesting fact about themselves: e.g., &ldquo ...
In the first days of a grammar class, pass out around a folder of pictures clipped from magazines of a variety of people: different ages, genders, ethnicities, etc. Students may choose their own c ...
This is set of cards to get your students talking about the ENVIRONMENT. Each card contains a word and its definition; they are also illustrated with pictures.
Suggestions for how to use these ...
Students come in having read something for that class period. Tell them they will spend two minutes “speed dating” five of their peers.
During the two-minute “date,” the s ...
This is a 15-page collection of various emergency-related coloring pages (mostly about earthquakes and tsunamis) that will help your younger students learn the basics of what they need to do in su ...
It's a simple 2-page worksheet with the following activities: 'Color the pinata' coloring page with three colors (yellow, red, blue), and a 'Fiesta' maze where your learners will need to draw a li ...
This is a set of 18 cards designed for developing speaking skill in elementary level. They will help students to understand and answer Who, What, When, Where, Why and How questions by using clues ...
This worksheet includes a coloring activity about noisy toys: boat, plane, robot, telephone, drum, trumpet. It is actually suitable for 5-year-olds. It can be applied to nursery level and children ...
This coloring page includes some simple animals. Children can colour them according to your directions or they can colour however they want. It's up to you. There are three different animals: duck ...
A set of colorful sport flashcards for young students that can be used as a memory game (a.k.a. pelmanism) or for other purposes of ESL teaching. There are 44 different sports including Olympic S ...
A set of 20 conversation cards to encourage Present Perfect conversations. Each question is illustrated with a colourful picture to help students understand and talk about their experience. Lami ...
This is a picture dictionary on Houses, Things Inside And Outside the House, Types of Buildings. It is specially designed for Elementary and Pre-Intermediate levels. Students look at the pictures ...
Devote the first 15 minutes or even half hour to a chain drill exercise where students have to introduce themselves with a positive adjective that begins with the first letter of their name, and t ...
This is a Power Point presentation to introduce vocabulary at the early stages of teaching the topic “Family”. It is an easy and fun way for the elementary learners to get acquainted ...
This activity book contains 28 pages of great fire safety activities for parents and educators to teach their kids how to be safe in case of fire. It was kindly provided by USFA (United States Fir ...
This is a great activity to follow up on your fire safety lesson with kids and teenagers. It's a project where they'll be making their own firetruck: cut, fold, and tape inside! The second page of ...
First demonstrate it yourself: secretly choose a country (for example, France) and describe what (most/some/a few) people in that country are probably doing right now: 'Some people are drinking wi ...
Have a little Present contest competition where your students will compete to write or say as many things as possible in this tense. Each sentence must describe something that is currently happeni ...
Here's a set of 56 cards / flashcards on Jobs and Occupations. They are easily adaptable to any level or age and they can be used as games, to increase conversation classes such as "What´s ...
These 9 fire safety coloring sheets teach kids the following:
- Don't cook alone or without asking an adult.
- Never touch matches, lighters or candles.
- Never stick anything into an electrica ...
This 74-page book is a 'must have' for every educator - it contains ready-to-use activities explaining what to do and where to go in case there is an earthquake in your area. You'll also learn (an ...
Great for groups of strangers, and avoids the dreaded pain of introducing yourself. Get the group to pair off and take turns in being a chat show host and guest. The chat show host has to find ou ...
This worksheet focuses on verbs used for chores and errands. The first page lists some suggestions for use. There are six unlabeled pages of pictures, one for each of these categories: cleaning, d ...
Ask students to close their eyes and think about a person that its important for them (like their mom, dad, husband, wife, dog, etc), tell them to think about what are they doing right now (for ex ...
A set of 28 cards / flashcards for presenting school supplies. They can be used in several ways: - memory games - teaching new words with visual support. - group work - conversation cards, etc.
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