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This is not another boring role play for personal information! Show your students how fun giving personal information can be with Family Matters LEVEL: Elementary CEF A1-A2 (Extendable) AGE: Adults/Teenagers SYNOPSIS: Students speak about personal information using topic and vocabulary challenge cards LANGUAGE FOCUS: Speaking/Grammar fluency TIME: 45-90 minutes INTERACTION: Pairs, small groups VOCABULARY: interests, siblings,…
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Pre-teach Vocabulary! No! Post-Teach Vocabulary!! In the red corner, we have Pre-Teach. In the blue corner, we have Post-Teach vocabulary…. Who do we cheer for!? For any CELTA certified teacher, most of us say “pre-teaching vocabulary is the cornerstone of understanding.” For any of us non-CELTA certified teachers, we say “what’s pre-teaching or post-teaching vocabulary?”…
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Debate: If a man goes into the forrest, and a woman isn’t there… is he still wrong? A Classroom Hero Grab-and-Go ESL Lessons Guru Guide on how to get your students debating! Answer A: No, of course not. That’s absurd! Answer B: Are you out of your mind, of course he is! He’s a man….
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Get your Prepositions in Place and find the missing diamonds of Bootyville! Take your students on an adventure through Bootyville and the stolen diamonds of Shalong. LEVEL: Elementary CEF A1-A2 AGE: Adults SYNOPSIS: Students discuss and read about the missing diamonds of Shalong LANGUAGE FOCUS: Speaking/Grammar fluency TIME: 45-90 minutes INTERACTION: Pairs, small groups VOCABULARY: treasure,…
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This ESL Reading and Discussion is going to piss you off! Why didn’t you find this site earlier!? You haven’t seen Avatar!? Really! I love how at the very end Jake Sulley… LEVEL: Intermediate – Advanced CEF B1-C1 AGE: Adults & Teenagers SYNOPSIS: Students read and discuss about annoying habits LANGUAGE FOCUS: Reading/Speaking fluency TIME:…
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Looking for your students to practice defining or non-defining relative clauses? Get them using them for what they were destined to be used: defining things that need it. CEF: B2-C2 AGE: Adults/Teenagers SYNOPSIS: Groupwork matching game where students define words, then write their own. LANGUAGE FOCUS: Accuracy in defining and non-defining relative clauses TIME: 10-45…
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