This lesson for upp[er intermediate level students is based on the song I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa by The Jackson 5 (amongst others!).The lesson uses the song lyrics as a running dictation exercise and also includes a Santa Claus quiz and speaking activity. Notes for teachers included!If you enjoy using this lesson in class, look out for our Christmas song based lessons for other levels. ...
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Keywords: christmas, intermediate, listening, reading, song, speaking, upper intermediate
Draw a street with two rows of houses facing each other on the whiteboard. Explain it’s a street in New York (or even better, the city your students live in) where they live and that they are nosy neighbours who love gossiping. You might need to explain what "nosy" stands for.Label the houses in one row: No 1 – four girls, No 2 – the Smiths, No 3 – the Browns, No 4 – the Greens, No 6 – the Blacks, No 7 – the Whites, No 8 – the Golds, No 9 – the Greys, No 5 – new neighbours. Tell students they live in the opposite row.Divide the students into two groups – in groups they receive copies of the houses (houses.pdf) and one description each where they have some information about what is going on in one of the houses (nosy_neoghbors_desc.pdf). It’s now 6 pm.
The objective of the game is to find out what is happening in House number 5. Students read their descriptions and decide which pictures are referred to in that description. They draw a line connecting the people described with the house they live in. They learn their descriptions by heart.Then they move around the class gossiping and telling "nosy neighbours" from their group what is happening in the houses in the row.
They should react with interest – e.g. Really? You must be joking! I can’t believe it! They connect people with houses in the same way.
Nobody has a description for House number 5. When learners have finished, one picture will be left showing what is going on in this house, what their new neighbours are doing (having a party). ...
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Keywords: grammar, intermediate, neighbors, present-continuous, reading, speaking
Traditional money would be useless in space. What features should a “cosmic” currency have? Read the article and check your predictions. ...
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Keywords: advanced, collocations, grammar, reading, suffixes, vocabulary, word-formation
Here are the second week of weekly edits. Feel free to change the "Week of" date. The sentences are taken from worksheetplace.com. ...
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Keywords: elementary, grammar, prompts, reading, weekly edits, writing
Week one of the weekly edits, that I create. I do get the editable sentenced off of another worksheet I found at worksheetplace.com. The worksheets themselves are pretty self explanatory. I do believe they'll be able to be edited to fit the week you're using them for. ...
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Keywords: elementary, grammar, prompts, reading, weekly edits, writing
A reading and dialog practice about moving to a new apartment. It is designed for low beginners. ...
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Keywords: commands using the verb put, dialog practice, elementary, furniture vocabulary, moving, reading, speaking, vocabulary
Shared by Ewa
This is a great activity idea to use in the esl classroom. It combines reading, synonyms, grammar (parts of the sentence) and a bit of personalisation. It works great at the beginning of a course when students still don't know their teacher.
Task
Guess that sentence!
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Clues:
1. It’s a pronoun ...
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Keywords: grammar, guessing, idea, personalisation, reading, warmup
A couple of great reading extracts describing various difficult people at work. Meant as a discussion starter. ...
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Keywords: advanced, business-english, job, personality-traits, reading, speaking, work
Shared by Anonymous
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There's yet another theory why February 14th was chosen as the holiday of love. People believed
that this was the time when birds started to mate.Since doves and pigeons mate for life, they came to symbolise fidelity. Based on the idea of the birds finding their mates, young ...
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Keywords: advanced, blind-date, jokes, love, matching, pairwork, poem, reading, speaking, valentines, vocabulary, wordsearch
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According to one legend, Valentine was a Roman priest who lived in the 3rd century in Rome. The emperor at that time, Claudius II, decided that unmarried young men made better soldiers. That's why he banned marriages! However, Valentine secretly continued to perform marriages for young couples. ...
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Keywords: agony-aunt, intermediate, love, matching, reading, valentines, vocabulary
