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Activities for ESL/EFL Students (English Study) Intermediate - English Current English Current. The Keys to Marriage (Intermediate ESL Lesson Plan) (March 14, 2014) Free PPP intermediate lesson plan on marriage and happiness.

Intermediate - English Current English Current

Cooking Lesson Plan (Intermediate ESL) (May 2, 2013) Free intermediate lesson plan on cooking, recipes, and food. Includes role-plays. Christmas Around the World (Intermediate Lesson Plan) (December 7, 2012) Free intermediate ESL/EFL lesson plan on Christmas traditions around the world. Study: Humans Getting Dumber (Intermediate Evolution Lesson Plan ESL) (November 22, 2012) Free intermediate ESL lesson plan on intelligence & evolution. Police Taser Blind Man (Intermediate Lesson Plan) (October 24, 2012) Free intermediate lesson plan about police tasering a blind man in the United Kingdom Gangnam Style: Korean Pop Video Goes Viral (Intermediate Lesson Plan) Paragraph Correction Worksheets. Correction exercises are valuable because they allow students to learn to proofread and edit.

Paragraph Correction Worksheets

This skill inevitably carries over into their own work, allowing them to be better writers. What's more, correction worksheets give students more practice identifying common grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors. It also gives beginning students practice learning new idiomatic expressions. Is is correct to say that Tom lives at Main street or on main street? These are the types of skills students will learn through using these worksheets.

Below you'll find our lists of printable paragraph correction worksheets. Interested in using interactive versions of our worksheets? © This is copyrighted work to be used only by teachers in school or at home. Beginning Level Paragraph Correction Worksheets. Pronouncing "ed" Endings Worksheets. This section seems to be especially helpful to English as a Second Language students.

Pronouncing "ed" Endings Worksheets

Words that end in "ed" are abundant, and their pronunciation rules can be difficult to memorize. For students who did not have the advantage of learning these rules during the critical period of language acquisition (ages 2-12), understanding when to use the different "ed" pronunciations can be especially frustrating. Therefore, until these rules become more intuitive for the student in everyday speech, the best method of practice remains repetition, listening to their pronunciation when spoken by other native English speakers, and using them in the most common sentence structures.

This page contains pronouncing "ed" endings worksheets. On these worksheets, students learn proper pronunciation of "ed" endings. Thanks for visiting this page. A Primer on Curriculum-Sharing Sites. When I was teaching, the single greatest way for me to prepare was to have conversations with my colleagues who had taught the concepts before.

A Primer on Curriculum-Sharing Sites

For one, this helped all of us develop a common discourse, which was inevitably clearer once we were working through our thoughts in trying to explain ideas to each other. Second, chatting informally helped me to develop a conversational tone, and to speak extemporaneously with the class, which ultimately helped to convey my passion for the subject matter, which is what brought my colleagues and I together in the first place. In addition, the most effective assignments that I used were based on ideas or resources that other teachers had shared with me. Teacher collaboration not only saves time, and makes work easier, it improves the quality of curriculum.

The second domain consists of sites that produce and share free curriculum materials, in a more traditional broadcast model. Curriculum Sharing Networks Curriculum Sharing Broadcast Sites. Power to Learn - Updated Web Searching. Updated Web Searchingby Dr.

Power to Learn - Updated Web Searching

Merle Marsh, Guest Columnist, 01/13/11 When you talk to your students about searching the Web, you tell them about the importance of selecting the right keywords for their searches. The problem is-coming up with those perfect words or phrases to help them find what they want online isn't always easy. Even for experienced Web searchers, eliminating unwanted sites can be a problem.

For students, it might be compared to being given a general topic for a research paper and having to come up with a specific topic. Usually they don't know what to type into a search engine's search line either, but they'll be hesitant to admit it. Before jumping into the research with your students, go to SortFix.com. Your comments to your students might go something like this: Go to SortFix.com and watch the demo.

After your students watch the demo, give them their assignment. Your assignment is to write a paper on a topic of your choice, but it has to relate to 18th Century poets. Technology-Learn about Online Sources. Internet Safety Lessons - Technology Resources for Teachers.