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Tag Archives: classroom activity
Using Journals and Magazines to Teach About Audience
Elena Shvidko
Today I’d like to share two simple activities that can help second language writers apply the concept of audience. The first activity is suitable for students of intermediate and higher levels of proficiency; the second one is designed for beginners … Continue reading
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eduCanon: For Making Videos Interactive
Tara Arntsen
Videos can really be a good addition to any class, especially for students who may be struggling readers or those who are visual learners. Additionally, there are so many to choose from online that you can find videos for every … Continue reading
Demystifying Audience and Genre: A Classroom Activity
Elena Shvidko
The concepts of audience and genre tend to be challenging for second language writers. Even when students seem to understand them theoretically, they struggle applying their knowledge to practice. We can help them demystify these concepts through simple classroom activities. … Continue reading
ESL Games: ESL – Tic Tac Toe
Marc Anderson
The Game: ESL – Tic Tac Toe is a quick, fun way to review any number of grammar forms or vocabulary words. It builds on higher level thinking skills and provides language practice in various skills—primarily listening, speaking, and reading.
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ESL Games: It’s All in the Description—A Speaking and Listening Game
Marc Anderson
The Game: It’s All in the Description is a great way to strengthen speaking and listening skills. In addition, it focuses on the present continuous verb tense and essential vocabulary to expand ESL fluency and overall language learning. It also … Continue reading
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Learning the Ropes: A Project-Based Speaking Activity
Alexandra Lowe
Group oral presentations are a staple of many ESL classes. While students get a lot of speaking and listening practice during these projects because they are working in and outside of class with partners to prepare their presentations, it dawned … Continue reading
ESL Games: Fractured Fables
Marc Anderson
The Game: Fractured Fables is a game that provides a means to learn English without students being aware they are studying. The game’s context of putting sentences together helps make the foreign language immediately useful to students by bringing the target … Continue reading
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What Does It REALLY Take to Succeed? A Speaking Activity
Alexandra Lowe
At the NYS TESOL Applied Linguistics Conference at Columbia’s Teachers College earlier this year, much was made of Bloom’s Taxonomy and the importance of giving ESL students ample opportunities to practice “higher order thinking skills” (HOTS). This caused me to … Continue reading
Are You a Tech Addict? A Writing & Speaking Activity
Alexandra Lowe
Smartphones are now so ubiquitous in adult ESL classrooms that the relationship between students and their phones is always an engaging conversation topic. Even more important, it’s a great way to help student practice one of the most challenging speaking … Continue reading
Using Proverbs in a Writing Class
Elena Shvidko
When I was little, I used to have a book with a collection of Russian proverbs and sayings. I remember being absolutely fascinated by the depth of knowledge and wisdom that I discovered on the pages of that book. Those … Continue reading
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