This is a handout based on a reading from World English 1 second edition, pg.74-75 “The Cradle of the Inca Empire”. I was using it as homework in a high-beginning integrated skills course, earlier in the semester. I took it out of the book to better encourage students to write on the reading, and added tasks to the reading based on what students had been learning (emphatic adjectives and past tense). I wanted them to practice annotating […]
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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 […]
Editing Writing Practice
This writing practice is for high-beginning/low-intermediate (ESL 235- level 3 integrated skills). I used examples from the students own writing (either a recent test or writing homework) that I would type up to use with students’ permission. They were already used to correction symbols (which are introduced at the start of the class with the first homework assignments). I usually go over the first example with the class together, reading sentence by sentence and stopping […]
Vocabulary Practice Bingo
Spelling Word Bingo: This is a way to practice vocabulary (whether from a reading or any other vocabulary source). It can be used at almost any level as you would just use the vocabulary students are currently learning and could adapt box size, etc. to accommodate. I used it in an advanced ESL writing/reading class, after half the semester (they had a few vocab lists and had taken a few spelling quizzes already). The students […]
Beginning Writing Rubric
This is a rubric that I created for my beginning ESL class to use with their writing assignments. In that class, we were practicing writing a paragraph about a picture. Every time we learned new things, I would model how they could use it to expand their paragraphs. I used this rubric to give them feedback so they could see their strengths and areas for improvement. Below the rubric are examples to help explain each […]