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The Importance of Oral Language Development in the ESL/ELL Classroom. A Breakthrough in Social and Emotional Learning. Teaching Emotional Intelligence Skills to Children. Rachel's English. Conversation Classes. In this lesson C2 students will develop their understanding of idiomatic expressions that often come up in the Cambridge C2 Proficiency exam.

They will encounter the expressions in a text about a bank heist gone wrong. Download the student handout below: Credit to: for the planning a bank robbery activity. You may also wish to use this quizizz game for spaced repetition of the target language. Procedure Students start by discussing common tropes of heist movies. They then skim the text to find out what went wrong in this case. Students then answer the detail questions: How had they planned for the robbery?

Language Focus Students now focus on the expressions in bold. Students now flip the paper over and look at version 2 of the same text. Set the key word transformations testing the expressions for homework. Plan a heist Students then present their different plans to the class. Text Version 1 The Heist What heist/bank robbery films have you seen?

Speaking. Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab - For English as a Second Language. ESL Discussions: English Conversation Questions / Debates: Speaking Lesson Activities. Conversation Questions for the ESL/EFL Classroom. If this is your first time here, then read the Teacher's Guide to Using These PagesIf you can think of a good question for any list, please send it to us. Home | Articles | Lessons | Techniques | Questions | Games | Jokes | Things for Teachers | Links | Activities for ESL Students Would you like to help? If you can think of a good question for any list, please send it to us.

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Language In Use. It is great to show and offer students many examples of English language in use. Meaning, students appreciate that there are many ways to say the same thing and like to see the "nuance" of the English language. Here are some images showing different ways / expressions to communicate a similar thing. Might be handy. Also, view as a slideshow or you can purchase and edit in ppt. If interested in this kind of approach, you might be interested in my ebook "Get TALKing" which has 28 lessons all based around language chunks. ESL Classroom Fun Teaching Tools - Game Count Down timers. Free ESL/EFL Online & Classroom Games ESL Games World is the ultimate English learning fun lab with lots of interactive exercises for teachers and students of English. This site is brought to you free of charge by the same team that brought you the ESL-galaxy.com, englishmedialab.com and esltower.com.

We are committed to making teachers' & students' lives a lot easier by providing useful free esl resources for teaching and learning English as a Foreign or Second Language. We have no doubt that you will find this website a handy tool for your teaching and learning of English. Some of the games include: Wheel of Fortune, Snakes and Ladders, Hangman, Memory Games, Spelling Games, Slot Machine, Word Classification Exercises and a host of others. ESL Powerpoint (PPT) Games If you are the type of person who prefers to have games on powerpoint or as printable handouts, we have been thinking of you.

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