This is a great visual chart of 30 different faces illustrating the intermediate+ adjectives under each face, such as anxious, mischievous, hysterical, and ecstatic. My students have enjoyed learning the new vocabulary by first thinking of a time when they have either experienced a particular strong emotion, or witnessed someone else demonstrating the emotion. Typically I ask them to select five new adjectives, look them up and make sure they understand the new vocabulary word, […]
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Comparative Adjectives
I really enjoy teaching how to use comparative adjectives with students. The rules are simple and students have fun with this presentation. I run the presentation and have all the students examine the list of adjectives. I provide a few answers and try to get students to guess the rules. After a while they figure out that 1 syllable you add er and 2+ syllables you write more/less. I provide example sentences about classes (Professor […]
BE+ Adjective
This is an activity I created to practice using the BE verb with an adjective. It gets students up and moving and writing. Click here to read how to do this activity and download the handouts. World English Intro: Unit 1 Jessica JohnstonJessica Johnston is the ESL resource faculty at Woodland Community College. Before grad school, she taught EFL in Quito, Ecuador. She loves creating class […]