This activity takes place as a review after students have learned adjectives, infinitives and gerunds. Cut up the parts of speech cards. You will need a game board for each small group and enough dice for each group to use one. Students get into small groups with the cards face-down and a player piece on “Start” (I have them use a tiny piece of paper with their initials on it). A player rolls the die, […]
Author: Kaitlin Leaf
Writing a Well-Developed Paragraph: Intermediate
This activity takes place after an initial lesson on topic sentences, concluding sentences and supporting details. As a warm-up activity at the start of class, students do a quick interview where they ask three classmates what their special skill is that makes them great to work with (see handout). Divide students into groups of four or five. Once in groups, ask students which person in their group said they were a good leader or always […]
Reading Practice: Jobs, Level 1
This is a reading adapted from Readworks.org that is a nice accompaniment to World English Intro, Unit 2: Jobs Around the World. This reading takes place ideally after students have been taught how to look up words in a dictionary. After students have done World English Intro, Unit 2, p. 16, students are given the reading handout and advised to look up the meaning of the words in the back (words 2-6). Then, students read […]
Superlatives Greeting Card Assignment
After learning and practicing superlatives in World English 2, Unit 4: The Body, students complete Part 1 of this assignment in class. Students write a message for a birthday or anniversary card using as many superlatives as possible. The instructor goes around the room and checks their sentences, giving them feedback on their use of superlatives. Students do Part 2 as homework, and submit an actual greeting card. You will get some really creative work! […]
Adverbs of Frequency: Notes for the Babysitter
This is an activity I use with my beginning ESL students (ESL 215, Level 1). It is used with World English Intro, Unit 5: Daily Activities. We work with a limited number of adverbs: always, often/usually, sometimes, never. This activity takes place after teaching the students the adverbs in a prior lesson (World English Intro, pp. 60-61). For the first box, advise students to fill in their cell phone numbers (I always tell them no […]