Reasons
for selecting â- Pride and Prejudiceâ-
â-Pride
and Prejudiceâ- is one of the most
highly valued and most famous novels in the English language. It is both
romance and witty satire.
The
simplified version of the novel is... read more
Education
is a right that still has to be fought hard for in some parts of the world.
This activity aims to raise the pupils awareness of this kind of inequality. read more
A lesson plan on the topic: 'Couch Potato'. All four skills (listening, reading speaking writing) are integrated in a motivating way. The plan aims to enhance metacognition and learning to learn. read more
Reading Lesson - Genre Focus on Short StoryGenre FocusWhat is a short story?Why read a short story?How to read a short story?Literary ElementsPlot and CharacterReading SkillsEvaluate and Predict read more
Health lesson for Living a Healthy Life.
Summary:
ÂYour Health and Wellness
ÂBuilding Health Skills
ÂDecisions and Your Character
ÂSetting Health Goals
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TEFL Grammar Workshop: Verb Phrases (Helping or Auxiliary Verbs)What Youâ-ll Learn:â-¢ How to identify Helping Verbs.â-¢ How Helping Verbs are used in a sentence.â-¢ How to identify Verb Phrases.Why Itâ-s Important:â-¢ To further your... read more
TESOL Grammar Workshop: Nouns-Singular, Plural and CollectiveWhat Youâ-ll Learn:â-¢How to identify and use Singular, Plural, and Collective Nouns.â-¢How to change the nouns to their Plural and Collective forms.Why Itâ-s Important:â-¢To further... read more
TESOL Grammar Workshop: Nouns: Proper & Common, Concrete & AbstractWhat Youâ-ll Learn:â-¢How to identify and use Proper, Common, Concrete and Abstract Nouns.â-¢How to know the difference to between these types of nouns.Why Itâ-s... read more
TESL Grammar Workshop: Indefinite PronounsWhat Youâ-ll Learn:â-¢How to construct a proper sentence using Indefinite Pronouns.â-¢How to identify and know when to use the plural or singular verb form with each Indefinite Pronoun.Why Itâ-s... read more
TEFL Grammar Workshop: Linking VerbsWhat Youâ-ll Learn:â-¢ How to identify Linking Verbs.â-¢ How Linking Verbs are used in a sentence.
Why Itâ-s Important:â-¢ To further your understanding of Grammar and Sentence Structure.
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TESOL Grammar Workshop: Noun Clauses
What You’ll Learn:
• How to identify Noun Clauses in a sentence.
Why It’s Important:
• To further your understanding of Grammar and Sentence Structure. read more
TESL Grammar Workshop: Gerunds and Appositives
What You’ll Learn:
• How to identify Gerunds and Appositives.
• How Gerunds andAppositives are used in a sentence.
Why It’s Important:
• To further your understanding... read more
TEFL Grammar Workshop: Irregular Verbs
What You’ll Learn:
• How to identify Irregular Verbs.
• How Irregular Verbs are used in a sentence.
Why It’s Important:
• To further your understanding of Grammar and Sentence... read more
TESL Grammar Workshop: Expressing Future Time
What You’ll Learn:
• How to construct a proper sentence using Future Tenses.
• How to identify and use the Future Tense.
• How to change the verb form to match the tense
Why... read more
TEFL Grammar Workshop: Interrogative Pronouns
What You’ll Learn:
• How to identify Interrogative Pronouns.
• How Interrogative Pronouns are used in a sentence.
• How to tell the difference between Interrogative Pronouns.... read more
TESOL Grammar Workshop: Main and Subordinate Clauses
What You’ll Learn:
• How to identify Main and Subordinate Clauses in a sentence.
Why It’s Important:
• To further your understanding of Grammar and Sentence Structure.... read more
TESOL Grammar Workshop: Distinguishing Participial, Gerund and Infinitive Phrases
Advanced level grammar lesson on Participial, Gerund and Infinitive Phrases
What You’ll Learn:
• How to identify Participles, Gerunds and Infinitives.... read more
TESOL Grammar Workshop: Demonstratives
Intermediate level grammar lesson on Demonstratives
What You’ll Learn:
• How to identify Demonstratives.
• How Demonstratives are used in a sentence.
• How to tell the difference... read more
TESOL Grammar Workshop: Direct and Indirect Objects
Beginner level grammar lesson on Direct and Indirect Objects
What You’ll Learn:
• How to identify Direct and Indirect Objects.
• How the Direct and Indirect Objects are used... read more
TESOL Grammar Workshop: Double Negatives
Beginner level grammar lesson on Double Negatives
What You’ll Learn:
•How to construct a proper sentence by not using
Double Negatives.
•How to identify and know when to use negative... read more
ESL Grammar Workshop: Conjunctive Adverbs and Interjections
What You’ll Learn:
• How to identify and use Conjunctive Adverbs in a sentence.
• How to identify and use Interjections.
Why It’s Important:
• To further... read more
ESL Grammar Workshop: Coordinating and Correlating Conjunctions
What You’ll Learn:
•How to identify Coordinating and Correlating Conjunctions in a sentence.
Why It’s Important:
•To further your understanding of... read more
ESL Grammar Workshop: Conjunctions and Interjections.
What You’ll Learn:
• How to identify Coordinating and Correlating Conjunctions in a sentence.
• How to identify Interjections.
Why It’s Important:
• To further... read more
At some point in your ESL class you will present adjectives that describe people. This is a good opportunity to get your ESL students some much needed English speaking practice. I use the following activity each semester in my classes.... read more
ESL Grammar: Simple and Compound Subjects and Predicates
What You’ll Learn:
• How to identify and use Simple and Compound
Subjects.
• How to identify and use Simple and Compound
Predicates.
Why It’s... read more
ESL Grammar: Simple, Compound and Run-on Sentences
What You’ll Learn:
• The difference between a Simple Sentence and a
Compound Sentence.
•How to construct a proper Compound Sentence.
•How to identify and... read more
ESL Grammar: Simple and Compound Sentences
What You’ll Learn:
• The difference between a Simple Sentence and a
Compound Sentence.
•How to construct a proper Compound Sentence.
Why It’s Important:... read more
ESL Grammar: Types of Sentences: Declarative, Interrogative, Imperative and Exclamatory sentences
What You’ll Learn:
• How to construct a proper Sentence.
• The difference between Declarative, Interrogative,... read more
Grammar lesson: Demonstratives
Beginner level grammar lesson for demonstratives. Lesson includes grammar form and function, remember section for common mistakes or important information and practice exercises: controlled for accuracy and... read more
Grammar lesson: Possessive Adjectives
Beginner level grammar lesson for possessive adjectives. Lesson includes grammar form and function, remember section for common mistakes or important information and practice exercises: controlled for... read more
Grammar lesson: Yes/No Questions with the verb “to be"
Beginner level grammar lesson for Yes/No Question with "be". Lesson includes grammar form and function, remember section for common mistakes or important information... read more
Women More Attracted to Men in Expensive Cars. English Conversation lesson for adult classes that includes article, reading exercises, gap fill exercises, discussion questions, case study and quiz. read more
Diplomatic English - Flip Flop Diplomacy. English Lesson including article, discussion questions, gap fill exercises, spelling, quiz and case study read more
This lesson is based on the song Santa Claus Is Coming Tonight by The Jackson 5. It introduces students to the use of 'had better/not' for giving advice with a warning. The lesson also practises listening for gist and detail.
Suitable for... read more
This lesson is based on the song Fairytale of New York by The Pogues. Students practise listening and reading for comprehension using the song lyrics before going on to discuss issues surrounding the song.
The lesson is suitable for advanced... read more
Christmas song lesson! Based on the song I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa by The Jackson 5 (amongst others!), this lesson includes a running dictation exercise with the song lyrics and also includes a Santa Claus quiz warmer! Suitable for upper... read more
Christmas song lesson! Based on the song Driving Home For Christmas by Chris Rea, this lesson practises listening and revises Christmas vocabulary in the form of a word Bingo! game with the song lyrics. Suitable for pre intermediate level... read more
Christmas song lesson! Based on the song Merry Christmas Everyone by Shakin' Stevens, this lesson practises listening and revises festive greetings. Suitable for elementary level students. Notes for teachers included!
If you like this lesson,... read more
Christmas song lesson! Based on the song White Christmas by Bing Crosby, this lesson practises listening and intorduced beginner level students to some Christmas vocabulary in the form of a crossword. Notes for teachers included!
If you like this... read more
Grammar Workshop-Appositives.
What You’ll Learn:
• How to identify Appositives.
• How the Appositives are used in a sentence.
Why It’s Important:
• To further your understanding of Grammar and
Sentence Structure. read more
Grammar Workshop-Articles and Demonstratives.
What You’ll Learn:
• How to identify Demonstratives.
• How to tell the difference between Demonstrative
Adjectives and Demonstrative Pronouns.
• How to properly use... read more
Grammar Workshop-Adverbs that Compare.
What You’ll Learn:
• How to identify Adverbs that compare.
• How Adverbs that compare are used in a sentence.
Why It’s Important:
• To further your understanding of Grammar... read more
Teaching Opposites Crossword Puzzle Worksheet. Why not consider planning a Backwards Day? Here are some simple ideas for making Backwards Day a fun day of learning…
Invite students and teachers to wear their clothes backwards or inside... read more
Reading and Listening Lesson Plan. Beans Meanz a bit less from Heinz! Baked beans lovers in Germany and Austria recently kicked up a bit of a fuss after it emerged that tins of the famous Heinz variety contained fewer beans than cans sold in... read more
Social networking lesson plan. Hands up those of you who like to chat online? How many of you use Facebook? Probably quite a few of you, as in today’s world we can’t seem to live without it. So what is a social network? It is a way of... read more
Grammar Workshop-Adverbs Modifying Verbs-Beginner
What You Will Learn:
How to identify Adverbs.
How Adverbs are used in a sentence.
Why It's Important:
To further your understanding of Grammar and Sentence Structure.
So you will know how to... read more
Grammar Workshop-Adverbs Modifying Adjectives and Adverbs-Beginner
What you will learn:
How to identify Adverbs that modify adjectives and other adverbs.
How these Adverbs are used in a sentence.
Why It's Important:
To further your... read more
A Trip to London - Intermediate Lesson with Article reading activity, Discussion, Grammar, Gap fill reading and listening exercises and more. read more
Intermediate Opposite Verbs Crossword Puzzle. This worksheet and game focuses on intermediate opposite verb pairs like sink/float, freeze/melt, send/receive, and arrive/depart. read more
Easy Opposite Verbs Crossword Puzzle. This worksheets and games focus on easy antonym verb pairs like come/go, start/stop, buy/sell, stand/site, give/take, and open/close. read more
Insurance: An unusual topic for a general English lesson, you might think, but surprisingly stimulating nevertheless – try it! Vocabulary is explored and practised through a gap-fill exercise based around topic-based words and phrases.... read more
Metaphor Introduction Worksheet: This worksheet contains an explanation of what a metaphor is and then gives some examples and asks the students to explain what the metaphors mean. read more
Worksheets and activities for teaching synonyms and the meta-language used for describing synonyms such as the following phrases:
. . . is another word for . . .
. . . means the same thing as . . .
. . . is a synonym for . . .... read more
Worksheets and activities for teaching synonyms and the meta-language used for describing synonyms such as the following phrases:
. . . is another word for . . .
. . . means the same thing as . . .
. . . is a synonym for . . .... read more
In order to encourage my students to read and watch more English texts and media, I want to get my students to expand their lexicon, better their listening skills, and learn more about the English Pop Culture; The Beatles in this case. By the end... read more
Variety of questions in different tenses. Good oral drill where Teacher fires questions at group or individual and requires rapid and correct responses. Can also be used for pair work. read more
A worksheet that focuses on the consequences of global warming on the North Pole. Vocabulary is explored and practised through a gap-fill exercise based around words and phrases built from "pole". Conversation practice is provided... read more
In this lesson students can learn how to pronounce words beginning with the letter "u" (as in "untidy" or as in "union") and which indefinite article ("a" or "an") to use in front of them.... read more
Although students may learn how to say large numbers, dates and phone numbers in class, they don't often get the chance to learn some simple idioms and expressions about numbers. With this lesson students can learn what "elevenses" are... read more
An unusual topic for a lesson, but nevertheless, a global issue. Topic-related phrases and idiomatic expressions are introduced in a gap-fill exercise and practised in conversation. Stimulating quizzes expand the students' knowledge of rats in... read more
Defining and non-defining relative classes are important elements to focus on when trying to help students improve their writing skills. This lesson focuses on reviewing the differences between defining and non-defining clauses, and then goes on... read more
This is a great little handout for demonstrating the meaning of some core adverbs of frequency. Don't over-rely upon it, though. You still have to teach the various meanings. It's vital that you show them what occasionally means, not simply tell... read more
Making Excuses: Lesson Plan plus handout
Lesson Type: Conversation
Level: Upper Beginner
Language Focus: Excuses due to obligations
Aim: To teach students to make justifiable excuses stemming from obligations. To reinforce "can"... read more
This lesson focuses on adjectives and phrasal adjectives related to people's perceptions of themselves and one another. From self-aware to self-absorbed, the vocabulary in this lesson will empower your students to assess themselves and other... read more
"What is Learning" powerpoint (zipped). This is a motivational powerpoint for students to encourage them to take a more activate role in their education. read more
Fat Gene Language Function: discussing issues,
understanding a written text Vocabulary Area / Topic: obesity, eating and drinking habits, genetics
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You can find teacher notes here:... read more
Teens Behaving Badly
Language Function:
discussing issues
understanding a written text
Vocabulary Area / Topic:
anti-social behaviour
teenage offences
phrasal verbs
society read more
http://www.free-reading.net
I am first grade teacher in Chicago and I found this terrific website with early literacy activities and games. They even lay out an intervention program for struggling students. The activities/games are all divided... read more
Reading pleasures lesson:
Who will you choose to share your life with? Are you considering
marriage? Are you already married? Use these questions as a springboard
to reflect on your options, choices, and desires. read more
this lesson is all about Blood grouping. i think , it is very important to know about blood grouping. because anywhere anytime we need it. so that i am posting this article for just information purpose only. read more
Have students listen to John Denver's "Country Roads". Ask a few comprehension questions and then have the students write their own song about their country. read more
Draw a picture on the board and then ask the students to come up with as many sentences using as many different tenses of the verb as they can think of. read more
