ESL EFL Teaching Activities, Worksheets, Lessons, Games Learn English: Intermediate Level Stories with Vocabulary Study English by reading each story and answering the questions. If you are a parent, these stories may also provide reading practice for your kids. Go to Advanced ESL for more difficult reading. Do you need a translator? Here is a free translation site. Open this in a new window and use it to help you read the stories: Remember: If you are learning English, don't forget pronunciation! Back to Speak Method home Reading Strategies and Lesson Plans | ESL Voices Students need to master both cognitive and metacognitive reading skills if they are to read well in English. For academic and job-related purposes, students learn cognitive reading skills such as prediction, asking questions while reading, guessing the meanings of unfamiliar words, analyzing themes, and writing a short summary of a passage to demonstrate comprehension of the main ideas. Visit Site Map, Current Lesson for integrated skills reading lesson plans concerning current news topics. Click here for previous Lesson Plans, Business Writing, Writing, Speaking, Listening, Vocabulary, Grammar, Charts & Organizers. Resources for Teachers. Reading Strategies Reading strategies help students in their reading comprehension. Activating Background Knowledge Before reading any material, students need to activate their background knowledge and acquire new information about the topic. Reviewing Unfamiliar Vocabulary Example: Words: restaurant beach zoo Sentences: Last night we went to a new_____.
Your Secret This EFL lesson is based around a short film called Your Secret. What I like most about the film is that it involves the viewers and encourages them to take an active and creative part. I would ask all teachers who use Film English to consider buying my book Film in Action as the royalties which I receive from sales help to keep the website completely free. Language level: Pre-intermediate (A2) – Intermediate (B1) Learner type:Teens and adults Time: 60 minutes Activity: Watching a short film, speaking and writing Topic: Secrets and creativity Language: Vocabulary related to secrets Material: Short film, discussion questions and film transcript Downloadable material: your secret lesson instructions secrets discussion questions your secret transcript Support Film English Film English remains ad-free and takes many hours a month to research and write, and hundreds of dollars to sustain. Step 1 Write Secrets on the board and ask students what comes to mind when they see the word. Step 2 to keep a secret
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Free English Reading comprehension tests and exercises online Reading comprehension is also an important part when you take an English test. Reading comprehension test can help you to improve vocabulary, grammar, and logical thought ability. There are some tips for you to improve reading skills: - Practice reading every day. - Take note all new words and learn them. - Try to answer all the questions. - After answer all the questions. - Practice reading techniques - scanning, skimming, intensive and extensive reading. + Scanning: You try to find a particular piece of information. + Skimming: You try to gather the most important information as quickly as possible. + Intensive reading: You try to find the details of a specific information. + Extensive reading: You try to find general information of a passage. Elementary Reading Tests
Teacher Lesson Plans, Printables & Worksheets by Grade or Subject - TeacherVision.com Crime Short Stories A game of Scrabble has serious consequences. - Length: 4 pages - Age Rating: PG He steals with swift, simple hands in the yellow Roman sun. The crowds are bulging, swollen, and he bobs amongst them as silent as a jellyfish. - Length: 9 pages The famous lexical semanticist Professor Edgar Nettleston had been found dead, a gunshot wound to the head. - Length: 2 pages Hot on the trail of master criminal Flambeau, the head of the Paris police arrives in London, where he begins to notice small things out of place. - Length: 19 pages A decapitated body is found during a dinner party at the house of the Chief of the Paris Police, in the walled garden. Threatening notes are sent to a brilliant inventor, apparently from a former rival for the affections of a young lady. - Length: 17 pages Confined to a room in an exclusive club during an important dinner, Father Brown notices some unusual sounding footsteps. - Length: 14 pages A man is certain his friends are about to play a practical joke on him ...
Understand what you read ::: Cambridge English Online: Learn > Enjoy > Succeed ::: All Reading Worksheets I spent much of my time as an educator creating materials to effectively target essential reading skills. I spent many more years compiling and posting these materials to this website. Here is a list of all the worksheet pages on this website. Reading Worksheets Figurative Language Genre Language Arts Point of View Text Structure Feel free to leave a comment or email me directly with any questions, concerns, or feedbacks. Englishtips.org: Learning English Together Reading guide for Coraline by Neil Gaiman Please be aware that this discussion guide may contain spoilers! Describe Coraline. What kind of a person is she? How does she like to spend her time? Copyright HarperCollins. Unless otherwise stated, this discussion guide is reprinted with the permission of HarperTrophy.
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