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At each lesson, have the student fill in the log, looking up the date, noting the time and the work accomplished, and sometimes choosing rhe work for the next lesson. Alternatively, have the stud ...
Personal information. This is a good activity to use at the beginning of the course or school year when, especially if the class is large, they may not know one another well. Draw this form on the ...
You and your students may choose to keep a journal that focuses on the students' ideas about various topics of interest. At the beginning, the teacher may have to do the writing while the student ...
Make photo stories using a Polaroid camera. The tutor and student develop a story idea then take a sequence of photos dramatizing the events. Back at home they paste one picture per blank page. Th ...
If your student is a beginning writer, it might be appropriate to begin by making lists ol many kinds - days of the week, months, groceries, family names, likes and dislikes — the possibilit ...
Think ol some personality characteristics of a friend, husband, tutor, or neighbor and use the friends name as the root for a new word describing that quality. Add prefixes and suffixes and think ...
Word cards, or flash cards, help develop sight vocabulary.
Flash cards are available commercially, but you and your student can make your own too. If you do, be sure to put a picture of the word ...
Here's a worksheet with coloured dots to fill in with the names of the colours. This is suited for complete beginners or false beginners who are just starting out learning English. There are two w ...
This is a variation ol Scrabblc and can be played without a board. The first player writes down a word. The longer the word, the easier it is for other player(s). The next player writes a word usi ...
This Birthday Party Planner worksheet provided by Kellogg's contains three coloured pages: birthday card, Birthday Party Checklist that the Ss need to check off once they have completed the activi ...
This is a 9-page coloring pages collection kindly provided by Kellogg's (also available from their website) where your young learners will find Rice Crispies character images to colour, as well as ...
Purchase a magic wand and bingo chips and store them in a 3-hole pencil case with a sign-out library card inside. Divide a lightweight piece of cardboard into squares and print a word in each squa ...
This worksheet is planned to motivate students to introduce themselves, giving some personal information and talking about their hobbies,their leisure time and their family. I have used it for my ...
I usually use this worksheet to make sure my students have an overall insight into all English tenses. Concept checking questions always work well :) This worksheet is designed for group work. Af ...
This is an activity to do with your students during the first days of class. It is very important to communicate in the classroom using English and this worksheet helps them to use some sentences ...
Discuss with the class how words can express or describe emotions.
Brainstorm vocabulary of emotions and feelings, and ask each student to write down words or expressions that he or she feels con ...
Divide the class into groups of three.
One of the persons in each group is the questioner, another is the answerer, and the third is the umpire or referee.
Tell the questioner to write on a slip ...
Method One. Tell a short anecdote which may either be true or be a complete fabrication. Have the group ask you questions about it. Give additional information as necessary to generate more questi ...
Have the students form pairs. (If this activity is done at the beginning of the course as suggested, you may wish to assign the pairs yourself, since the students may not know one another and may ...
Give each student a piece of paper.
Tell the students that each one is to draw a house on his or her paper. They are to work alone. When the houses are drawn, they are to fold the papers in two s ...
This October worksheet collection contains the following: October calendar, flashcards, Halloween and Columbus Day coloring pages.
Have a great Fall lesson!
Kwanzaa begins December 26th and lasts until the first day of January. Kwanzaa is a time when people come together to celebrate their African heritage. During Kwanzaa families decorate their homes ...
This is a collection of 20 Halloween worksheets kindly provided by Crayola (the worksheets can also be downloaded from their website) where you can find all sorts of Halloween projects: Halloween ...
Tell the class that they are to imagine another life.
In this new life they can take the form of an animal, a plant, or an object. The one form they cannot take is that of a human being. Give the ...
To revise story language and vocabulary from the coursebook.
Divide the class into groups of two or three. Assign each group a unit from the Pupils’ Book.
Pupils copy the story from that u ...
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