At a Restaurant - Beginning Level English. Phonemic chart. My teacher ... My friend ? Phone call in a foreign language : Six Don'ts. Do you feel so nervous when you make a phone call in a foreign language that you make mistakes? This article lists six common ones you should avoid. Oscar Wilde once said: “Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.” We all make mistakes sometimes. What is important is that we learn from them. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Do any of these “don’ts” sound familiar? Activities. Cooking in Britain Today. Introduction This lesson consists of a series of activities to help students talk about food and cooking. The main focus of the lesson is a text based on a recent survey in the UK indicating that British people are becoming more adventurous and experimental in their cooking and eating habits due to the growing popularity of cooking programmes.
This lesson should challenge stereotypes of British food and encourage students to discuss their own preferences and attitudes towards food and restaurants. Topic Modern British cooking and restaurants; the popularity of celebrity chefs Level Intermediate+ Time 60-90 mins Aims To learn or revise vocabulary relating to food, restaurants, tastes and texturesTo develop reading and comprehension skillsTo develop speaking skills/ discussing preferences and attitudes towards food and restaurants Materials Lesson plan: guide for teacher on procedure including answers to tasks.
Download lesson plan 118k pdf Download worksheets 142k pdf Kate Joyce, British Council. Shopping at the minimarket. Shopping at the minimarket Submitted by admin on 17 February, 2010 - 15:08 To set up the activity requires quite a lot of preparation. However, this activity can be repeated over future lessons as a review (using new shopping lists) and develops a number of skills (CLIL) and creates an appropriate context for students to communicate at this age. This speaking activity reviews uncountable and countable nouns (food), some/any and prices and is suitable for pre-intermediate 9 -11 year olds. The activity also contains an element of mathematics as students add up how much they spend at the shops. Materials Shopping at the minimarket student worksheet (1 per student) Colouring pencils Procedure Draw a big diagram of the shop on the board or large piece of paper (see outline on students worksheet) but don’t tell students what it is yet. Who is this? What’s this (a cash till) So where am I?
What is my job? Whose shop is it? What does the shop sell ? Can you think of a name for my shop? Inside lives. Connecting With Students | Starting the School Year Right. Refine Your Discipline Plan And Classroom Procedures After summer vacation and time off, students often have a hard time getting back into the 'school' habit. Use the following to help you reconnect with your students. 1. Highlight Connections Between Your Class and Students' Lives Connect Your Class to Careers Help students make the connection between your course and possible careers by hanging posters describing the responsibilities of people in different jobs.
Alternatively, give bonus points to students who call attention to a connection between your lesson and one of these jobs. Create an Interesting, Organized Classroom Environment Given contradictory needs or distractible students, gifted students, and visual/spatial learners, a logical way to decorate a classroom includes: Provide a stimulating display for students entering the room. For a few ideas on how to put this together, check out Classroom Decor and find creative ideas adaptable to middle and high school levels. 2. 3. What's the question? Three of a kind? Three of a kind? Submitted by admin on 20 March, 2012 - 09:33 Use this activity to practice the use of comparatives and superlatives and to introduce more complex ways of comparison. As a sub aim it also revises various lexical sets depending on the things to be compared. It can be adapted to be used for all ages although it is essential that some previous introduction to comparatives and superlatives has been done.
Activity type: Group work Level: A2+ Age: All Materials Copies of the three of a kind template. Procedure Choose 3 students and ask them to come to the front of the class.Ask the class how each student is different. Extension Students could choose a form of transport, draw it and compare it with each other. By Del Spafford Copyright - please readAll the materials on these pages are free for you to download and copy for educational use only. Printer-friendly version. Socialising 1: Breaking the ice. Socialising 1: Breaking the ice Submitted by admin on 15 May, 2012 - 12:26 For many people, the idea of walking into a room full of strangers and trying to socialise with them can be terrifying, especially if you have to use a foreign language. The barriers to ‘breaking the ice’ in a situation like this are just as much psychological as linguistic, which is why this lesson aims to get students thinking about the situation (through a quiz-based discussion and jigsaw reading) as much as speaking and practicing the skill of starting conversations with strangers.
Topic: Socialising and starting conversations Level: Intermediate (B2) and above Aims: To discuss and deal with some of the psychological issues connected with starting conversations with strangers.To teach some useful phrases for starting a conversation and leaving a conversation.To provide practice and feedback of the situation of starting and leaving conversations with strangers. Plan components Lesson plan: download By Jeremy Day. Cartoon Strip to Initiate Interaction with Peers. Getting the whole class talking. Getting the whole class talking Submitted by admin on 16 August, 2011 - 14:39 The following activities are designed to get everyone talking. They can be used with all levels because the language required to communicate is determined by the students. Remember to set up and demonstrate these activities carefully before letting the class go ahead.
Jigsaw puzzle challenge Take 3-4 large pictures/photos and stick them on card. Something in common or 'give me five' Explain that we can all find something in common with those around us. Create a biography Take a biography of a famous person and write each detail on strips of paper. These activity ideas originally appeared on the British Council Language Assistant website Clare Lavery, British Council Printer-friendly version. Motivating speaking activities for lower levels. Planning time has been shown to increase production in speaking tasks. Lower level learners often find it especially difficult to speak spontaneously, so these activities incorporate 'thinking time' during which learners can prepare for speaking by planning what they are going to say, and asking the teacher or using a dictionary to look up missing vocabulary.
The following activities are relatively short, with minimal materials preparation time for the teacher. They are designed for use as a warmer or a filler in the middle or at the end of a class. 1. Definitions lists This activity is good for activating existing vocabulary or revising vocabulary studied in previous lessons. Procedure Choose a vocabulary topic (this can be vocabulary you have recently studied or a topic you want to introduce).
A faster-moving, fun alternative to this activity is a team game. 2. 3. This is a variation on the above activity and is great for practising adjectives. 4. 5. 6. Stilmittel Englisch (Stylistic Devices, Rhetorical Devices) Tipp: Die Stilmittel sind auch in der Prüfungsvorbereitung Gymnasium enthalten, die es zum Ausdrucken in unserem Online-Shop gibt. Stilmittel (auch Rhetorische Figuren / Mittel oder Stilfiguren genannt) helfen, Reden, Essays usw. lebendiger und interessanter zu gestalten. So tragen sie vor allem auch dazu bei, die Aufmerksamkeit der Leser / Zuhörer aufrecht zu erhalten. Im Folgenden findest du einige wichtige Stilmittel mit Erläuterung und Beispielen - nützlich für Literaturanalysen aber auch für deine eigenen Texte. Stilmittel Englisch Alliteration (Anlautreim, Stabreim, Alliteration) Allusion (Anspielung, Allusion) Anaphora (Anapher) Antithesis (Antithese) Hyperbole (Hyperbel) Hypophora (Hypophora) Litotes (Litotes) Metaphor (Metapher) Metonymy (Metonym) Narration Technique (Erzählperspektive) siehe: Points of view Onomatopoeia (Lautmalerei) Parallelism (Parallelismus) Parenthesis (Parenthese) Personification (Personifizierung) Points of view (Erzählperspektive) Repetition (Wiederholung)
Have you ever...? Have you ever...? Submitted by admin on 16 November, 2010 - 12:59 This activity practises ‘have you ever...? To talk about life experiences. It is student led in terms of the content and is satisfying as a result. Preparation Print out and copy a bingo card and grid worksheet for each student. Procedure Elicit and write a list of about 20 irregular verbs (infinitive forms) on the board.Give out bingo cards and ask students to choose any 9 verbs from the board to write the past participle form on their cards.
ExtensionStudents could write a short paragraph about another student and then read this out without saying the name. For example: This student has been to Africa. By Derek Spafford The worksheets are downloadable and in MS Word format - right click on the attachments below and save them on your computer. Copyright - please read All the materials on these pages are free for you to download and copy for educational use only. Printer-friendly version. FRUIT | Food | Picture Dictionary for Kids. Rating: 3.5/5 (11 votes cast) 1 apple 2 peach 3 pear 4 banana 5 plantain 6 plum 7 apricot 8 nectarine 9 kiwi 10 papaya 11 mango 12 fig 13 coconut 14 avocado 15 cantaloupe 16 honeydew (melon) 17 watermelon 18 pineapple 19 grapefruit 20 lemon 21 lime 22 orange 23 tangerine 24 grapes 25 cherries 26 prunes 27 dates 28 raisins 29 nuts 30 raspberries 31 blueberries 32 strawberries 1 tangerine 2 grapefruit 3 lemon 4 lime 5 orange 6 grape 7 pineapple 8 banana 9 honeydew melon 10 avocado 11 kiwi 12 papaya 13 mango 14 apricot 15 starfruit 16 peach 21 apple 22 pear 23 watermelon 24 plum 25 strawberry 26 raspberry 27 blueberry 28 rhubarb 29 cherry 17 raisin 18 fig 19 prune 20 date 30 hazelnut 31 walnut 32 coconut 33 Brazil nut 34 almond 35 peanut 36 cashew FRUIT, 3.5 out of 5 based on 11 ratings.
Center for Language Education. The best way to improve your speaking skills is, of course, to speak in English as often as possible. English teachers often suggest that there are a lot of opportunities to use spoken English in Hong Kong. While we agree, we know that taking up these opportunities requires certain ‘strategies’ (not to mention courage). We also know that for most non-native speakers problems can arise when they are using English to communicate. It is, however, important for you to make effective use of speaking practice opportunities and the first two of the advice sheets described below will help you with strategies for creating and dealing with these situations. The next three advice sheets deal with more specific academic and professional situations in which you might be required to use spoken English.
Advice sheets in the SAC Creating practice opportunities: Strategies for speaking A (S2) This advice sheet will help you to think about maximising your opportunities to use spoken English. And now... Practice Speaking English with ESL Robots. Teaching Telephone English - Telephone English Lesson Plan. Teaching telephone English can be frustrating as students really need to practice their skill as often as possible in order to improve their comprehension skills. Once they have learned the basic phrases used in telephoning, the main difficulty lies in communicating without visual contact. Telephone English poses a special problem for English learners because of the lack of visual clues used when speaking. Practicing telephone English in class can also seem rather artificial as exercises generally ask students to practice speaking on the phone through role-plays sitting together in small groups. This telephone English lesson plan focuses on creating a more realistic telephoning situations to encourage students to practice authentic telephoning situations.
Aim: Improving Telephoning Skills Activity: Role playing using office telephone lines Level: Intermediate to advanced Outline: Review phrases used in telephoning. Lesson Pronunciation Practice Stress and Intonation - Focus on Pronunciation Skills - Improving English Speaking Abilities - Stress and Intonation Improving English. Stress and intonation refer to the "music" of speaking a language. Which words are stressed and the intonation you give when speaking can add subtle changes in meaning. Understanding and practicing the different types of common stress and intonation and English will help you or your students improve their English skills, as well as improve overall English pronunciation skills. I am often surprised at how focusing on the "stress - timed" quality of English helps students improve their pronunciation skills.
Students often focus on pronouncing each word correctly and therefore tend to pronounce in an unnatural manner. By focusing on the stress - timed factor in English - the fact that only principal words such as proper nouns, principal verbs, adjectives and adverbs receive the "stress" - students soon begin sounding much more "authentic" as the cadence of the language begins to ring true. Aim: Improving pronunciation by focusing on the stress - time nature of spoken English Outline: Sprechen: Dialoge (Dialogues) - Englisch Lernen Online. Englisch: Wendungen, Phrasen und Wörter für: besserer/guter Ausdruck/Stil zur Klausur-Vorbereitung (Vokabeln)
Eine Zusammenstellung von Philipp Hauer vom 16.01.2008. Update: 20.03.2012. © Inhalt © pan/Pixelio Vorwort © RainerSturm/Pixelio 40% der Gesamtnote - so viel wiegt die "Sprachliche Angemessenheit" bei einer Klausur in der gymnasialen Oberstufe. Die Vokabeln, Wendungen, Phrasen und Ausdrücke in den folgenden Zusammenstellungen doppelt sich. Tipp: Vokabeln lernen einfach gemacht Mit dem Programm VocCrafter steht ein schlankes, bequemes und vorallem effektives Tool zum Lernen von Vokabeln zur Verfügung.
Useful expressions. II.1 Aufzählen von Ideen, Fakten und Gründen Enumerating ideas, facts and reasons. II.2 Bezugnahme zu den Argumenten des Autors Referring to the author’s arguments in a text. Mit Hilfe dieser Tabelle ist man nun in der glücklichen Lage, dass überstrapazierte und schwammige Wort "think" endgültig zu vermeiden. II.3 Formulierung der eigenen Meinung Expressing your own view. Nützliche Satzverknüpfungspartikel Useful particle for sentence association. Hilfreiche Ausdrücke und Wendungen. English conversation phrases and expressions for speaking practice. Wie man lernt, ein tolles Gespräch zu führen - wikiHow.
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Www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/Socialising 1_Breaking the ice_lesson plan.pdf. Socialising 2: Keeping conversations going. Beginner Dialogues - Asking for Directions - Begining Level Dialogues for ESL. Sprechen / Konversation - englisch-lernen-im-internet.de. English conversation phrases and expressions for speaking practice.