Language and Identity Unit
This unit is based around the theme of Language and Identity. There are two readings that are the basis of the essay at the end of the unit.
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Conversation Class: Family and Children
Are you planning to talk about family and children in your class? Use this conversation lesson and talking chart to engage your class.
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Contextualized Verb Practice
Use this activity sequence to get your ESL students to practice different verb tenses in a fun and contextualized way.
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Just-In-Time Syntax Booster
Add this just-in-time syntax routine to your class to help improve your students' English sentence structure.
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Conversation Class: Natural Remedies and Traditional Plants
Check out the latest of TESOL Planner's conversation class lesson slides. This time get your students talking about natural remedies and traditional plants.
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Discussion Question Slides Bank
Access this series of over 50 discussion questions in slides format to add more speaking opportunities to your ESL class.
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Three Steps to Better Pronunciation
This is a great activity to help English learners improve their pronunciation of English sentences by paying attention to phrases and stressed words.
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Become an Expert Language Learner
Are you learning a Language? Check out these strategies to help you be an expert language learner. Are you a teacher? Use this article in your class to help students develop their language learning strategies.
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Ways to Study Over Break
If you're learning English, read about different ways to study English to help your language skills improve. If you're a teacher, print the handout to give to your students or share this article with them to encourage them to study over the break.
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Making Inferences
Help your students improve their reading skills with this complete lesson on making inference. The post includes lesson slides and a group activity handout
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How To Write a Paragraph: Lesson Slides
Use these lesson slides and accompanying collaborative group activities to make your students paragraph experts without even having to lecture on it.
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Oral Fluency Assignment
Helping students recognize and correct error patterns in their own speech can be a challenge. This assignment helps students gain an awareness of their own speech patterns by transcribing their own speech and then analyzing it.
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Theme Based Reading/Writing Unit
The unit is based around the theme of Herd Mentality and Mob Behavior. At the end of the unit, students will work on an essay that applies the terms to a short story in the unit.
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Money and Shopping: For Sale Cards
Try these shopping cards to easily bring realia into your class without lugging in boxes of items. Each card has a picture of an item and price and will work great for any shopping/money related lesson.
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Conversation Class: Wonders of the World Slides
In my last post, I shared conversation class material on the theme of travel and survival. In this post, you can access material for a conversation class centered around world wonders. This topic is always fun because it’s perfect for an activity that asks students to share information about some significant place in their own country.
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Conversation Class: Travel and Survival Slides
These ESL conversation class lesson plans (including beautifully designed slides and handouts) on travel and survival are sure to get your adult ESL learners engaged and learning.
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Simple Past Tense Quick Reference Handout
The simple past is a commonly used verb tense in English. It's also a tense that English learners often struggle to form and use correctly. This handout is a great resource for learners to keep with them in their notes to reference when they're using the past tense.
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Simple Past Tense Cloze Paragraphs
Help build verb knowledge with these three past tense cloze paragraphs. There are two paragraphs in simple past and one paragraph that requires both simple past and past progressive.
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Simple Present Tense Tip Sheet
It's not always easy to find a condensed handout that explains the basics of a particular grammatical structure. I recently created this one for the simple present tense for my class. I'm planning to do some activities this week on the simple present, and I want them to have this handy if they forget a particular structure.
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Simple Present and Present Progressive Cloze Paragraphs
Verb tenses can be a challenge for students. This document contains clozes to help English learners practice the simple present, the present progressive, and then both tenses together. The three different cloze activities contain a picture to help contextualize the paragraph.
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