Technology/Gadget/ Device/Object Lesson Ideas/Plans for ESL Teachers

What are they made of ? basic matching of materials , objects & pictures worksheet (PDF)

What could they be made of ? worksheet (PDF)

Useful things vocabulary , pictures & questions (PDF)

Describing shapes worksheet (PDF)

ESL worksheet for talking about products,
machines and appliances-with pictures (PDF)

Best inventions of the past hundred years
worksheet-with pictures (PDF)

Object and uses for work and study -with
pictures(PDF)

Technology, machines, inventions lesson plan
and worksheets

Adjectives & collocations for objects/technology
exercises (PDF)

ESL worksheets for describing technology (PDF)

Phrasal verbs for technology (PDF)

Computer system vocabulary worksheet (PDF)

Questions about internet for ESL students (PDF)

Intermediate worksheets for innovations (PDF)

Information and  communications technology
test (PDF)

Gadgets/Inventions Resources

Lesson Plan: Simple Machine WebQuest

Readings and audio files about technological inventions

Articles about famous inventions

Clip art things

Welcome to How Stuff Works!

Smithsonian science & technology  lessons

Teaching about The Internet for
ESL & Literacy Education

Vocabulary exercises for internet, email and digital cameras

Internet vocabulary test

Internet Lesson Plan for ESL students

Describing Items/Things/Objects

A luxury I do not want to do without speaking
exercise - see p.4 & 6 (PDF)

School objects worksheets (PDF)

Office objects, gadgets, devices activity (PDF)

Personal possessions lesson: Purpose:
To describe items using a variety of verb tenses, adjectives, and other language; to practice asking
and answering Wh- questions

Describing objects

Everyday Objects Come to Life Lesson idea

Conversing with an Object

Other Ideas for Teaching about
Technology

Dramatic fool object roleplay

Mimimg an object (dramateaching idea

Anything fabric: creative drama teaching idea

Photographic Memory: teaching for remembering objects, vocab

Memory game

Adult learning activities:technology readings

Teaching Ideas for Giving Instructions

Technology-writing instructions for a microwave

Giving instructions vocabulary

Technology lessons/worksheets

Technology survey (PDF)

Technology questionnaire/worksheet (PDF)

Students  describe and classify past and present communications inventions

Technology: a blessing or a  curse lesson

Worksheet – Computer Applications & Social Impacts

Technology lesson plan including
technology survey worksheet (PDF)

Read about the Inventors and Inventions on the following pages.You are to invent a machine (PDF)ESL Conversation questions re technology

Interview questions  about use of  & opinions re technology (PDF)

Keep your English up to date: BBC ESL lesson about the Internet and IT

ESL Lesson & worksheet for students:  The Cell Phone Age

Mobile Phones:ESL lesson & worksheets for teachers & students

A car that runs on air: esl lesson & worksheets for teachers and students