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“Where is my…?”

A “hot or cold” game but with questions instead of having them move around the room. Objective: Review “to be” questions and prepositions of place This is the “hot or cold” game but with questions...

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How well do you know your classmates?

An interactive worksheet for students to practice the present tense by interviewing one another. Download this resource View this document on Scribd

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Shopping for Beginners

Students are introduced to common questions and answers associated with shopping. Whether it is at a local market or at a clothing shop, the basic vocabulary and grammar is practiced. Download this...

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Pet peeves of personal hygeine

Students will write and share about their own pet peeves after learning about the teacher’s pet peeve.   Objective: Understand the definition of “pet peeve,” use synonyms for the verb “annoy” (irk,...

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Song: How are you?

Very simple song for teaching one of those first questions to very young learners contrived by Romania PCV Matt Paulson. Objective: the main goal here isn’t to make them fluent by the time they reach...

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Jobs reading comprehension worksheet

In this worksheet, students read three paragraphs about people and the jobs they do. Then they respond to simple questions about what they read. By Romania PCV Jessica Brookins. Download this resource...

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Question Words Worksheet

Students practice questions and question words using this worksheet from Romania PCV Jessica Brookins. Download this resource (.doc) Due to a technical limitation, the preview below loads on two pages....

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Who killed the teacher? A murder mystery

It’s just like Clue, only without the murder weapons! This is a high-preparation lesson that’s totally worth it. Students engage in a murder mystery where they have to find the killer in their class by...

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Expressing Abilities: Can and Can’t worksheet

Students must express the ability to do things with can and can’t. By Romania PCV Jessica Brookins. Download this resource (.doc) Due to a technical limitation, the document appears to flow onto two...

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“Can you … ? Do you like … ?” Short answer worksheet

In this activity, students go around the classroom asking their colleagues if they can do a verb, then if they like to. They must write the name of the student they asked and how the student responded....

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Human Sentences

This activity is a great way to practice forming sentences. It allows the students to work together and not feel embarrassed if they make a mistake. It can work for big classes too! Procedure Write...

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“There is…There are” Review

This activity helps teachers review affirmative and negative “there is/there are” statements and questions, as well as the use of “some” and “any” and countable nouns. Objective: Students will form...

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Can and Can’t Unit Project

This out-of-class activity, which encourages students to become autonomous learners, would be the final unit project for a Backward Design lesson plan for “can” and “can’t” usage. The activity requires...

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Getting to Know You

Doing interviews  in class or at teacher-training workshops gives participants the chance to learn about each other and is an appropriate activity for low to advanced language levels. Moreover,...

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Simple Past and Present Perfect Activity

This activity helps students review the difference between simple past and present perfect by asking and answering questions using both tenses.   Objective: SWBAT differentiate between simple past and...

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Pastimes Mingle

In this activity and lesson plan, adapted from an article from the US Department of State’s English Teaching Forum 2014, No 2, students mingle and interact, in pairs and then with the rest of the...

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Chance Encounters

This activity uses pictures of a wide range of people for whom students will write dialogues that might occur if the individuals had a chance meeting somewhere in the world. The lesson plan is adapted...

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How Often Do You…?

This post has instructions for a game that gives students practice asking questions using “How often do you…?” do a particular activity and answering the questions using adverbs of frequency....

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Live English

At Unidad Educativa Riobamba, Ecuador TEFL PCV Erin Fischer is bringing English to the classroom through cooking and recipes. The project goal is to have students interact with the language in a...

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Anecdotes: Tell Your Story

Sharing anecdotes gives students a chance to speak and write confidently about topics of their choice. Objective: SWBAT tell and, optionally, write an anecdote related to their experiences. Time: 40...

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