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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Carve a Pumpkin
As Halloween approaches each autumn I often bring in a large pumpkin. After briefly describing the origins of this “holiday” I discuss the current manifestations that take place in American culture such as costumes and trick or treating. But what really gets their attention is when I give a narrated demonstration of how to carve a jack ‘o lantern. Necessary items: one (1) pumpkin, one carving knife, newspaper to put the seeds on, and a […]
World Village
This is an intermediate /advanced listening & discussion activity that has students imagine the world as a village of 100 people. What would this world look like? All the activities and instructions are on the two page handout. The first page is the handout for the students and the second has instructions and follow up assignments for the teacher. Here are links to the 2 page handout: » WORLD VILLAGE « and the […]
45 Great Portraits
I recently created this resource to add to our ESL resource bank at Woodland Community College. Check out my blog post on it to learn more. You can get ideas about ways to use this. Please, leave comments below telling about ways that you use these. I think the possibilities are endless. Click here to download 30 portraits Click here to download 15 more portraits Jessica JohnstonJessica Johnston is the ESL resource faculty at Woodland […]