Super quick motivating activities: 'What do you know about…'
This is a great way to really use the map that we see at the front of the learner’s course book. Use the course units as a way of getting learners to engage with the subjects they’ll encounter on the first day of classes. This is a simple but effective way to get learners talking straight away and build motivation for the course ahead of them. This is an activity I learned from Ken Wilson, so I’ll explain it in exactly the way he does it: How Ken Wilson presented this activity at a conference in 2013. He shows a list and then asks if anyone knows anything about these topics.He promises that no one will have to talk at this stage, then gets learners to respond: they write a fact about one of the topics on a paper – only then do learners show their written fact to those around them. My example…New Zealand: It is in the southern hemisphere This is a great way to get learners to interact with a coursebook and to have some personal input into discussing it as a whole.
33 ways to speak better English
If you’re reading this, I imagine you want to speak better English and communicate in a more confident and competent way. When we communicate effectively we are able to express our ideas and opinions, share experiences, and build relationships with others. When we struggle to express ourselves, we feel unvalued and insecure. As human beings, we want to participate in group discussions and have an impact on the society around us. In the modern world, we communicate across borders. By speaking better English, people all over the world can hear our voice. Well, English teachers and English classes definitely help. What you need is to become a self-directed learner, somebody who takes responsibility for their own learning and creates their own learning programme to develop their English. Now, it’s certainly true that speaking is a social activity and is best done with other people. You can do the same with your English. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. I want to go for a drink tonight. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
Super quick motivating activities: The ‘who / what / why / where / when’ story
Here’s a great activity that you can use with any level of language learner and to reinforce / and put to practical use any language point you happen to have been teaching. What’s more, it’s incredibly easy to set up and requires very little preparation. Are you ready? Let’s do it… What you need Scan through all those old teacher’s books you have kicking around your place of work. OK, I think you have the basic idea. Our only real requirement for making this a more creative task is to completely ignore any such instruction. Procedure 1. Stipulate that the story must be told using whatever input language has been taught before this. 4. That’s it.
Homebuilt pickups and trailer hitches: How underage teens skirt the law to drive in | Hemmings Daily
Photos by the author. [Editor’s Note: Ronan Glon of Ran When Parked recently took a trip to the Swedish countryside, where he discovered a sneaky (and legal) way some teens there have figured out how to drive before the legal age.] Some of the most interesting cars that Sweden has to offer are hiding in small, rural towns, not in museums. That’s because 15-year-olds are allowed to drive virtually any type of car if it’s been converted into a two-seater pickup, and modified to top out at about 20 MPH. These home-made pickups are considered tractors by Swedish law, and they’ve been around for nearly a century. In the early days, real tractors were expensive and difficult to come by, so skilled DIYers began chopping up cars (often Ford Model As) to use them in the fields. The one-of-a-kind creations became known as EPA tractors. The popularity of EPA tractors diminished as real, purpose-built tractors became easier to find and much cheaper.
Super quick motivating activities: building the story
An engaging speaking activity for intermediate level learners Instructions: Get learners to select an interesting image from their course book, preferably one that has a few people doing something.Arrange the class into groups to talk about it.Tell them as a group to choose one person in the picture and to think in detail about them; they can decide any number of things: the person’s name; their age; their job; what they are saying or thinking; how they are feeling; where they are going; what they have in their bag; who they are visiting, and so on.Get each learner in the group to help build up as big a story as possible using only the picture as a source of inspiration. Images are a great source of inspiration. Language focus: While the image can be from anywhere in the course materials, it might be a good idea to get learners to focus on using a target structure you have recently covered in class. Who was he? Make it motivating: Alternatives:
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Super quick motivating activities: Who am I?
A great activity for practicing adjectives that works at all levels Instructions: Make sure each learner has a blank piece of paper of paper to write on.Ask them to write answers to a series of prompts, the following are examples: ‘Give an adjective you would use to describe yourself‘; ‘Give an adjective other people might use to describe you‘; ‘What is one adjective that is totally opposite to what you are like?‘Make sure they don’t tell anyone else in class what they are writing.Collect in the pieces of paper.Shuffle the papers well read out the adjectives from the pieces of paper at random; see if the learners can guess who is being described. ‘Students 12’ by @yearinthelifeof available from #ELTPics Language focus: As you can imagine, this activity works particularly well with adjectives. Make sure to ask questions that will illicit varying, personal responses, so that there is plenty of variety among answers and so that guessing is fun yet possible! Make it motivating:
US Presidential Election – WebEnglish.se
This theme page presents lesson plans and materials to learn about the US presidential election of 2020 in years 6-9 and above (A2-B1) of the Swedish Compulsory School. Related pages: U.S. Government, The USA Now, The Presidential Inauguration 2021 Last edited Jan 6th, 2021 Post Election Day Follow the Race Background Warm-up Vocabulary Lesson Plans Reading Audiobook Listening Viewing Primaries Electoral College Presidential Elections Exit Polls US President Quizz Interactive This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.Election GlossaryRoad to the White House 2016
50 Essential Resources for ESL Students
Learning a new language is always daunting, especially when that language is as full of weird rules and contradictions as English. Even native speakers sometimes have trouble mastering the nuances of tense and grammar. Fortunately, if English is not your first language, there are a variety of ESL resources online to help you master the English language. From speaking to writing, these tools will help you get a handle on English and give direction to your education and career. Don't let the size of the task deter you from getting it done. Use these resources to become fluent in no time. Grammar and Usage Use these sites to boost your grammar skills, from verb tenses to noun placement. Purdue Online Writing Lab: The OWL offers a comprehensive repository of practice sheets and linguistic primers for learners at all levels.Dave's ESL Cafe: ESL teacher Dave Sperling's in-depth site provides numerous lessons about sentence structure, word use, and more. Spelling and Pronunciation Podcasts
