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Advanced Travel Vocabulary in English with Travel Stories Sharon’s Travel Story: A Staycation on a Tight Budget When I was younger, I had a real sense of adventure. I loved backpacking, camping in the woods, sleeping in tents and spending the evening next to the campfire. As a child, I remember trying to build a fire from scratch by rubbing two sticks together. But I do have such good memories of camping and hiking with my family. My mom would pack all the usual stuff: trail mix, fruit, marshmallows to roast over the fire, stuff to make sandwiches, etc. I haven’t camped for years! But last year we did do something a little fun, a little different: we had a staycation. We have some wonderful photos (and memories) of our picnic dinner watching the sunset on the beach.
Spoken English Blog/Website: Learn to speak fluently 8 Fun Activities for Teaching Verbs - Reach To Teach Recruiting Teaching verbs can be a pain in the butt for everyone. Regular and irregular verbs, past tense, past participle and past conditional… It’s confusing even for native speakers. When it comes time to learn or review verb tenses, you’ll want to find as many ways as you can to make it fun and intuitive. Here are eight great activities and games for teaching verbs to keep things fresh and actually make verb conjugations fun. Storytime Create a story that features the verb in many different conjugations. Charades Give students a time limit to act out a certain verb. Relay Race Write a list of pronouns on the board (I, you, he, they, she, it), and then have two teams line up at the board. You can switch tenses to make it more challenging. Mother May I A great game for beginners who need lots of speaking practice with verbs. Twenty Questions Teaching Verbs Edition One student comes to the front of the class and is given a verb. Verb Ball Toss Students stand in a circle and pass the ball around. Mad Libs
Speaking - Dialogues and role-play in English - Diálogos en inglés Recursos para estudiantes de inglés de todos los niveles, profesores y traductores. Para aprender o mejorar tu inglés en forma divertida a través de Internet. Haz doble click sobre una palabra para ver la traducción Babylon Traductor gratis Speaking Role-Plays En esta parte te ofrecemos la posibilidad de practicar tu inglés participando en diálogos de la vida cotidiana. ¿Qué se necesita? Primero, deberás instalar un programa para poder escuchar y hablar.Click aquí para instalarlo (es gratis) Además, necesitarás tener conectado un micrófono y por supuesto, auriculares o altavoces para poder escuchar. ¿Cómo funciona? En cada página se ofrece un diálogo distinto para practicar. Elige un diálogo More dialogues coming soon...
350 Good Questions to Ask - The only list of you'll need. Here is my ridiculously long list of good questions to ask. Use them to get a conversation going or as a fun way to pass the time with friends or loved ones. With 350 questions to choose from, I’m confident that everyone can find plenty of good questions to ask! Try to be creative as you can and have fun with the questions. I’ve also put a PDF and an image of all 350 good questions to ask at the bottom of the page. Good questions to ask 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. 101. 102. 103. 104. 105. 106. 107. 108. 109. 110. 111. 112. 113. 114. 115. 116. 117. 118. 119. 120. 121. 122. 123. 124. 125. 126. 127. 128. 129. 130. 131. 132. 133. 134.
Question words (1) - Exercise to learn English Question words Questions about the subject When we ask questions about the subject of a sentence, the word order in the question and the answer is the same: Ben designed this house. Who designed this house? X Who did build this house? / Who built this house? • We use what, who, which, whose and how many in-questions about the subject. Questions about the object Questions about the object need an auxiliary verb (do, have, is, etc.) before the subject: Wren designed this cathedral. What did Wren design? • We use what, which, who, whose, when, where, how often, etc. in questions about the object.X Which cathedral Wren built? Here is a summary of question words with examples: Position of prepositions • Note the change in the position of a preposition in questions about the object: I gave the book to John, becomes: Who did you give the book to? She sent the letter from , becomes: Where did she send the letter from? What or which? We use what when the choice is open. What colour do you like?
Top 8 ESL Games Every Teacher Should Know Whether you are teaching in Taiwan, teaching in China, or teaching in South Korea we have all been there. We have started our year with awesome games, but as the months draw on these awesome games start to lose their zing with your students. Time to shake it up a little, below I have compiled the top 8 games every ESL teacher should know. Teacher says We all know this one, it is basically a take on the game Simon says, except that we are replacing Simon with the teacher. How it works: Get your class up on their feet, you the teacher will give the students things to do by saying ‘teacher says …’ followed by an action. This is a great game to use for concept checking or even as a warmer. Hangman (Dice) Another one that everybody knows except I like to use a dice to bring in other rules. How it works: Split your class into two teams, give each team $500 to start with, and then write 1-6 on the board. What’s the time Mr.Wolf This is a great game to play when you have been learning about time
Happiness – “One question” – Generating Discussions. A designer lessons ESL Lesson plan developed by George Chilton I think this would be a nice way to start off a discussion. Thanks to Gemma Lunn for pointing me in this direction – there are several One Question videos on YouTube. This is a short post, but the looser the plan here, the better. Lesson Aims In Barcelona, they'd cut these up 'n rub them violently on to bread. DiscussionSecond conditional in conversationError correctionVocabulary building and listening comprehension Stage One Ask your students what they would ask if they could ask anything to the people of their city. Stage Two Ask students to write something down (they are willing to share) that would make them happy. *You’ll have to view it on YouTube as they don’t allow embedding. Students should put the following answers from the video in order. This is the correct order, though I have missed some out. Stage Three Possible discussion questions Did anyone say the same thing as they did? Like this: Like Loading...