Talking Chart

Schema Jigsaw Grid

January 18, 2019

Set students up to be successful with a challenging reading with this pre-reading activity. They’ll get some great speaking practice in the process. ...

Conversation Class / Discussion / Lessons and Handouts / Talking Chart

Conversation Class: Family and Children

May 20, 2018

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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Travel Talking Chart: Simple Present

December 27, 2017

This talking chart goes nicely with the last post of travel destination cards. It will get students to talk about places in the world where they want to visit. It gets students to practice the question...

Lessons and Handouts / simple past tense / Talking Chart / Verbs

Three Simple Past Tense Activities

October 14, 2017

Check out these three different past tense activities to get your adult ESL students to practice and use the simple past tense. There's a talking chart, a group writing activity, and a structured...

Discussion / Lessons and Handouts / Talking Chart

Favorite Holiday Discussion

October 8, 2017

At my school, we recently started holding a conversation hour to give language learners listening/speaking practice. For the first week, our theme was holidays. For one part of the event, we did this activity...

Group Activity / Lessons and Handouts / simple past tense / Talking Chart / Verbs

Verb Cards for Interactive Practice

August 16, 2017

A while back I posted a set of verb cards to use for a variety of different activities. This is a new set that I created that uses actual images instead of clipart. There is a total of 81 different commonly...

Lessons and Handouts / simple past tense / Talking Chart / Verbs

WH Questions Past Tense Talking Chart

June 20, 2017

This is a great two-part activity that gives English learners a chance to practice question and statement forms in the simple past tense. ...