Monthly topical news lessons
Monthly news lessons are sourced from The Guardian, onestopenglish's principal news partner, and include topical news items with worksheets for you to use in class. The lessons in this section are available at pre-intermediate/intermediate, upper intermediate and advanced levels. All the articles are from the Guardian, onestopenglish's principal news partner. As well as using the language exercises which accompany each article, you can exploit these news texts in a number of ways: as extra reading, especially for advanced students;by asking students to compare the political slant of different news organizations;as a way to start projects on the issues covered, etc.
Speaking Activities for ESL/EFL
Causative Speaking Warm-up (Pair-work) In this sentence transformation activity, students rephrase sentences by using the (active) causative verb form (help/let/have/get/make). Speaking Activity: Mafia Game (ESL/EAP)
Warmers, fillers & coolers
Warmers Below is a list of warmer/cooler/filler/game activities in no particular order. If you have any warmers you'd like to add to the list then please send them to via the Contact page Aims: - to introduce a theme - to relax stds after a hard day's work - to wake stds up after a hard night - to wait for late arrivals - to provide a break in the lesson - to provide humour - to provide oral fluency practice - to finish the lesson on a light note
Learn English Sentence Master – Alkalmazások a Google Playen
Learn English and grammar free by ordering the words to form correct sentences and sayings. Sentence Master is a fun and educational game for kids and English language students of all ages who want to learn English and improve their language skills in a more entertaining way. How do you play? It’s easy. The game consists of putting the scrambled words from each level in order to form a correct sentence and learn English in a fun way.
21 Digital Tools To Build Vocabulary -
21 Digital Tools To Build Vocabulary by Kimberly Tyson, Ph.D If you follow this blog, you know that I believe effective vocabulary instruction is just about the most important instructional activity for teachers to get right. For lots of reasons. Vocabulary influences fluency, comprehension, and student achievement. How’s that for starters?
HOTS Reading Cards – Part 1
Free resource at the bottom of the blog post (but lots of info about it in the post, so still worth a read!) I had hoped to complete all 50 cards before publishing, but with lots on at school and in my ‘other’ life, I’ve taken a slight pause on making the next 26! I set out to make reading cards, as I am always disappointed by the range of ‘non-babyish’ materials that are available to children who struggle with reading, or with engaging in reading. However, I also feel passionately that continually having ‘different’ resources to work on in the class from peers can have an equal off-putting effect.
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Learn English - Listening Master is and educational game for kids and students of all ages. Listening Master will help you understand and learn English better, improve your English language skills and help you learn real English spoken in everyday situations. Learn English - Listening Master makes a game out of helping you to practice and improve your English listening skills through dictation using real English conversations in a fun, enjoyable and educational way. Learn real English and practice your English listening skills by typing the letters of the words you hear or tapping the words of the audio to form the sentences.
15 classroom language games
Using English and avoiding L1 for instruction language and common questions in the classroom is absolutely vital if you want students to use English every day and realise that what you are teaching them is relevant to their lives. Below are 15 games to practise this kind of useful language. NB: if you want to […] Using English and avoiding L1 for instruction language and common questions in the classroom is absolutely vital if you want students to use English every day and realise that what you are teaching them is relevant to their lives.
Diagram of the Tenses of English with a timeline for each tense – ELT Ideas
Past Present and Future (flickr.com/photos/freshelectrons) Here’s a chart of all the ‘tenses’ of English. It contains the form, most common usage, example sentences and a timeline for each of the past, present and future tenses, plus conditionals. There’s an A4 students’ version, or an A3 version you can stick on the wall. It’s designed for use when students are already familiar with most of the tenses as a kind of visual overview to help with revision and clarification.
Classroom Timers - Fun Timers
Online-Stopwatch Classroom Timers - Fun Timers for classrooms and meetings :-)Holiday Timers - More Fun Timers - But these are Holiday Themed! :-)Random Name Pickers - Probably the BEST random Name Pickers online!
Functional Language ESL EFL Activities Worksheets Games
On this page of Teach-This.com, you will find all our ESL teaching activities, games and worksheets related to functional language. Functional language is language that we use to perform various functions such as making requests, giving advice, complaining, agreeing, disagreeing, asking for permission, etc. Learning functional language gives students of English the skills to communicate effectively in various everyday situations. Functional language contains a lot of fixed expressions.
The Beauty of a Second
This ESL lesson plan is designed around a video for a film-making competition commissioned by Mont Blanc and the theme of beautiful moments. Students watch a short film, describe moments, speak about beautiful moments and make a one second-time video Remember that Individual Membership and Institutional Membership of Film English Club allow unlimited access to all Film English Club lesson plans, viewing guides and other teaching material. Upgrade to Film English Club Step 1 Ask students what can happen in a second.
