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Movie review writing guide
This is an English language exercise helping students
to write movie reviews. Click on the image belowor the link to download the PDF file.
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4 Teaching Activities for Discussing Changes in Life and Society
Changes in life and society is a great topic for engaging students in brainstorming and discussion activities. It’s a great speaking topic and a great essay topic.
1 Brainstorming changes in life and society
This is a brainstorming activity to explore which changes in life and society are most important in students’ lives.
2 Life changes – the good and the bad
This is a discussion worksheet for talking about the advantages and disadvantages of life changing events.Students look at the pictures and think of one advantage and one disadvantage for each situation.
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3 Talking about the future and life changing decisions
This is a discussion worksheet for talking about, explaining and supporting life changing decisions.
4 Memorable life experiences
This is an essay lesson for practicing language, brainstorming and planning a narrative essay about memorable life experiences.
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Song Review: “Royals” by Lorde
This is an English language exercise for practicing vocabulary associated with song reviews. Students fill in the spaces with the words at the bottom of the page. Click on the image belowor the link at right to download the PDF file.
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Brainstorming a song for a song review or music essay
This is an English language exercise to help students brainstorm ideas for a song review or song essay. Click on the image belowor the link at right to download the PDF file.
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Verbs for human movement worksheet
This is an English language exercise focussing on verbs for human movement. Students try to match the vocabulary with the appropriate pictures and write a short sentence for each picture. Click on the image below or the link .to download the printable PDF file.
Superlative island for teaching adjectives and superlatives.
Superlative Island
Superlative Island
This is an ESL speaking exercise for to help students use superlative adjectives.
1. Students draw an outline of an island on a sheet of blank paper. It’s fine to do this in pairs.
2. Dictate a whole lot of places or get each student to suggest one thing to be drawn on the map. Includes all kinds of places and things : tourist attractions, forms of transport, problems and weather.
3. Stick the maps on the walls. Write some questions cues on the board and tell the students to walk around the room asking questions about the maps.
4. Questions might go like this:
What is the most interesting place on the island ? Why?
What do you think is the most famous attraction ? Why?
What is the least interesting attraction ? Why?
Where could you get the most delicious food ?
What is the biggest problem ?
What is the worst place on the island ?
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Office exchanges: good and bad news
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Office exchanges: good and bad news
This is a business English ESL exercise to help students develop Business Englsih speaking skills. Click on the image below or the link to download the printable PDF file.
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2 preposition activities
Prepostions Exercises and Worksheets
Preposition Activity 1
Intro
Everyone knows that prepositions are a problem to teach and it’s difficult for ESL students to remember their appropriate usage. Here is a fairly straightforward activity for prepositions that keeps students active and interested.
Preparation
Prepare a list of nouns that are associated with different prepositions. Between 20 and 30 would be a good number.
Step 1
Dictate the list of nouns and at the same time elicit the corect prepostions for these nouns.
Step 2
Put the students in pairs to read out nouns and test their partners knowledge of prepositions. Or put the nouns on flash cards and get the students to walk round flashing their
Preposition Activity 2
INTRO
This is a good game to wrap up a lesson teaching prepositions of location.
MATERIALS
Copies of a local street map(1 per two students), preferably a map with a lot features.
STEP 1
Hand out the maps and select a place(without telling the students what it is). Write 2 pieces of information about this place on the board.
It is on Rajdamri Rd. and next to the Regent Hotel.
Tell the students to locate the place and tell you it’s name.
STEP 2
Hand out slips of paper(about the size of the palm of your hand) and instuct the students to write the locations of 5 places on the paper like this:
1. Dusit Thani Hotel
It’s on Rama IV and opposite Lumphini Park.
2. World Trade Center
It’s on the corner of Sukhumvit Rd. and Rajadamri Rd.
3……etc.
STEP 3
After the groupshave finished collect the slips of paper, select 2 students and seat them in front of the class as “game show hosts”. Share the collected pieces of paper between the hosts and tell them to read out the locations to the class(as in STEP 1). The pairs of students now become teams and when any team shouts out the correct location score them a point on the board. It’s essential to keep up a fast pace reading out directions. If the “game show hosts” are a bit slow fill in yourself with a few off the top of your head.
STEP 4
After 10 or 15 minutes stop the game and tell the students with the most
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S tudent
Centered
Review Gallery
1.Present a model
This is a good exercise when you want
to review a lot of grammar. Write a
couple multiple choice questions on the board and ask the students to choose the best answer. Then distribute grammar
pages from the textbook around the class and tell the students to do as you have
done…writing a multiple choice question.
2. 2.Create a Gallery
Go around the class and help the students.
Also put numbers on their papers so the
gallery is numbered up to how many students
are in the class. When they start finishing
put the questions up on the wall.
3.Choose the best answer
Finally, tell the students to get another piece of paper and walk round the “gallery”
looking at the questions and write down
the answers Question 1) a
Question 2) c
Question 3) a ….etc.
When everyone has gone around and
selected answers go over them as a class.