Recently, I have developed a new strategy for level 1 students to write about a picture. The students are asked to separate their ideas into two paragraphs. The first paragraph is a description of the people in the picture (who is it, where are they from, what do they do for a living). The second paragraph is about what is happening in the picture at the moment. The attachments below have additional questions for students […]
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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 […]
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 […]