Downloadable lesson materials CrowdWish Level: B2/Upper Intermediate and up Skills: Speaking, reading and listening Language: idioms (dream come true, like magic, step in the right direction etc) and wish (including wish + would) ELT Resourceful – Crowdwish The lesson is about a new online service, CrowdWish, which invites people to post their wishes on their website. You’ve got to have a dream Level: B1/Intermediate and up Skills: Speaking and writing Language: reason and result linkers, adjectives of personality A free downloadable lesson, based around a Russian advertising video for shampoo. ELT Resourceful – You’ve got to have a dream Orangutan asks for help in sign language Skills: speaking and listening Language: environment vocabulary (e.g. deforestation, consumers, sustainable) ELT Resourceful – Orangutan asks for help in sign language The lesson starts with an activity to find out what students know about orangutans. Gratitude Skills: Reading, speaking, listening and writing ELT Resourceful-Gratitude A good deed To R.P.
ESL EFL Teaching Activities, Worksheets, Lessons On this page, you will find grammar worksheets and activities about adverbial clauses. These resources help students learn how to form adverb clauses with subordinating conjunctions, subjects and verbs and practice using them to function as adverbs in a sentence. Here you will find games, activities, and worksheets for students to learn and practice adverbial phrases. The grammar activities, games and worksheets on this page focus on be going to statements and help to teach students how to form and use affirmative and negative statements to talk about future plans and intentions. In this section, you will find grammar activities and games about be going to Wh questions. This page provides grammar worksheets and activities about be going to yes/no questions that you can use to help students learn how to make closed questions about future plans and intentions and reply using short answers. These fun grammar activities, games and worksheets help you to teach your students comparatives.
Studies in Second Language Acquisition Albert Valdman Award 2022 We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Albert Valdman Award for outstanding publication in 2022 is: “Domain-General Auditory Processing Explains Multiple Dimensions of L2 Acquisition in Adulthood” by Kazuya Saito, Hui Sun, Magdalena Kachlicka, John Robert Carvajal Alayo, Tatsuya Nakata, and Adam Tierney. Please join us in congratulating these authors on their contribution to the journal and to the field. A note from this year’s winners: We express our gratitude to the review board of SSLA for granting our article the Albert Valdman award for outstanding publication this year. Albert Valdman Award 2022 We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Albert Valdman Award for outstanding publication in 2022 is: “Domain-General Auditory Processing Explains Multiple Dimensions of L2 Acquisition in Adulthood” by Kazuya Saito, Hui Sun, Magdalena Kachlicka, John Robert Carvajal Alayo, Tatsuya Nakata, and Adam Tierney. A note from this year’s winners:
Listen to English and learn English with podcasts in English Using Mr. Bean to Teach Present Continuous (Speaking Activity) English Current Skill focus: Speaking Grammar: Present Continuous (Present Progressive) ESL Level: Pre-intermediate to Intermediate Number of students: 2 or more Equipment needed: projector/video screen Time Required: 15 minutes Present Continuous Speaking Activity Description After teaching your students present continuous, put them in pairs. Next, load a short Mr. Explain to the student facing the video that his job is to describe the video to his partner. Let them do it. After, have the pairs switch seats and change the video. Note that the word oyster is important in the above story, so be sure to preteach this vocabulary. Present Continuous Speaking Activity Expansion This could be made into a more robust lesson 30/40-minute lesson by: 1) Creating warm-up questions about the topic of each video. Do you like flying? 2) Pre-teaching key vocabulary (flight attendant, life preserver, buffet, oyster, spoiled, etc) My students always enjoy this activity, and it’s likely because Mr. Good luck with your class.
Ideas for Large Classes and Different Ways to Approach Content : ESLetc.com : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming In this ColorÃn Colorado podcast, Dr. Jesus Cortez, Professor of Professional Studies in Education at the Center for Bilingual/Multicultural Studies of California State University, Chico, discusses ways that schools can help motivate students to read, and offers tips for choosing quality children's literature. He also reflects on the importance of mindful teaching, and recommends titles of multicultural children's books that will resonate in diverse classrooms. ColorÃn Colorado is an... In this ColorÃn Colorado podcast, Dr.
11 must-see TED-Ed lessons Short animated lessons you’ll love, from atomic structure to the science of stage fright (and how to overcome it). Bite-size snacks of knowledge, TED-Ed Video Lessons are short, free educational videos written by educators and students, then animated by some of the most creative minds in the business. The topics of these addictive little videos range from quantum physics to the art of beatboxing, and once you watch one, you may want to watch 10 more. Know an animator or educator who could make a great TED-Ed Lesson? Nominate them here. Here are 11 of my favorite TED-Ed lessons to start. 1. This is the lesson that started TED-Ed. 2. This is a great example of a lesson that answers one of those questions I had always been curious about, but never took the time to look up. 3. A great melding of content and animation. 4. Awesome language arts lesson by linguist and TED speaker John McWhorter. 5. 6. 7. A great lesson for anyone who has (or might want to get) a tattoo. 8. 9. 10. 11.
Authentic Teaching | Five techniques to speak any language Click the picture or scan the QR code below to go to our Zaption lesson Ready to print handouts and activities: więcej o tej lekcji na blogu Student’s Handout Teacher’s Handout Activity 1, 2 & 3 – Warm-up, Global listening & Speaking Activity 4 – Introduction Activity 5 – Technique 1 Activity 6 – Technique 2 Activity 7 – Technique 3 Activity 8 – Technique 4 Activity 9 – Technique 5 Scan or download the QR code to access the Zaption lesson Scan or download the QR code to access the full version on the talk ESL flow All Things Grammar - Home 5 free tools to create your own teaching resources This post features a list of 5 free tools for teachers who enjoy making their own teaching resources or would like to start and don’t really know how. Below, I am talking about online tools you might use to create visuals, presentations, animations, comics, and quizzes. The tools I’m mentioning here might be used by you, the teacher, to create something for your students, or you might choose to involve your learners: use the tools in the classroom together or let your students use them at home. Let me start by saying that this is NOT a sponsored post. I’m just a humble blogging teacher trying to share some useful information with whoever might be reading. I’m a big fan of creating my own teaching resources (as is probably pretty evident from this blog) and for quite some time now I’ve been trying to move past creating extra worksheets that accompany the coursebook. Could I use it with any of the students I teach? Canva Canva is my go-to online tool and my absolute personal favourite. Qzzr
Exams & Testing Archives OUP offers a suite of English language tests: the Oxford Online Placement test (for adults), the Oxford Young Learners Placement Test, The Oxford Test of English (a proficiency test for adults) and, from April 2020, the Oxford Test of English for Schools. What’s the one thing that unites all these tests (apart from them being brilliant!)? Well, they are all adaptive tests. In this blog, we’ll dip our toes into the topic of adaptive testing, which I’ll be exploring in more detail in my ELTOC session. If you like this blog, be sure to come along to the session. The first standardized tests Imagine the scene. The first recorded standardised tests date back to the year 606. A revolution in testing Binet was an accomplished academic. The problem with paper-based tests We’ve all done paper-based tests: everyone gets the same paper of, say, 100 questions. But how are these linear tests constructed? Standard Error of Measurement Now we’ll develop this idea further. Figure 1. Figure 2. Not a member?