technology future tense plans & predictions complaints movies intercultural communication teaching esl with movies describing communities, neighborhoods & places

Pre-Intermediate
ESL lessons/activties for giving directions

Indirect questions activity

Ask and provide directions and instructions. Identify and explain common problems and solutions.

Giving directions lesson

Teaching directions to ESL students  with jazz chants

CanTeach - Dramatic Play Centre Ideas

CanTeach - I Need Some Help

Scavenger Hunt

House roleplays lessons for ESL teachers

Housemates and Renting Apartment Roleplays

Realtor role-play

Housing Complaints Dialogue

Apartment hunting ESL lesson

Buying a house conversation cues

Getting an apartment lesson with vocab

Housing project roleplay

Lessons for city/country comparisons

Lesson to identify differences between urban and rural life incl. worksheet

City Life: Write 'city' and 'country' on the board and ask students what they prefer and why....icl. worksheet

Teaching  contrast (but,however  although) using the theme of cities

Household/home safety checklists

Home safety checklist:room by room(html &PDF) Surrey

Kitchen safety checklist

Mr Fixit Home Safety Checklist short


ESL lessons for teachers & students: describing communities, neighborhoods & places

Talking about cities (PDF)

Urban complaints guided conversation lesson (PDF)

Speaking/discussion questions for talking about neighborhoods

Lifestyle crossword (PDF)

Name that city - the cost of living: practice making comparisons

ESL Teaching Tip: The Perfect Evening

Teaching ideas for describing places

ESL vocabulary & lessons including
vocabulary for describing communities, neighborhoods & places

Describing communities,  vocabulary, types of houses- ESL exercises and worksheets (24 page PDF)

Describing Places :vocabulary, sentence patterns & dialogue

Describing places: model paragraph, vocabulary

Describing places  (esl) lesson including vocabulary and  questions

Community & local environment surveys
and questionnaires

Community survey about a local park

Park & public spaces survey worksheet : very cool
(1 page PDF)

Resident in  neighborhood survey

Community survey (incl. ranking exercise)(PDF)

Home security true/false quiz

Describing a home/house lessons &
vocabulary

Objects in the home that are considered  special

Family treasue interview worksheet

Describing a house lesson

Home features checklist (PDF)

ESL Furniture Vocab lesson

Conversation questions about homes

Around The House: Homeowners lesson
and vocabulary (PDF): landlords & tennants(PDF)